Full Day Mental Health Awareness Training:
Course aims:
- A key focus on psychiatric illness and personality disorder for public-facing individuals (non-clinical) Improving health, safety, diagnosis and agency management.
- Ideally suited and dedicated to individuals involved in local authority activities, social housing work, social care, supported housing and sheltered housing work.
- This training can focus on the following key areas on request:
- Mood disorder (Anxiety, Depression and Mania);
- Psychosis;
- Personality disorder (antisocial, emotional schizotypal;
- Self-harm and emotional disorder;
- Improving risk assessments.
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- There is a key focus on mental health classifications; helping delegates to recognise the symptoms and behaviours associated with different diseases and disorders.
This Mental Health Awareness event provides a key opportunity to improve the knowledge and skills within those public-facing individuals who are often confronted with abnormal, challenging behaviour and potential mental illness in the course of their work. The object of the training is to improve understanding, improve procedures, reduce anxiety and improve personal safety for all concerned.
This event focuses on the mental health issues that typically confront non-clinical public-facing staff that work in sheltered housing, supported housing, social care, customer services or local authority work. including:
- Antisocial Personality Disorders (Dissocial Personality Disorder) (Psychopathy);
- Psychosis;
- Schizophrenia ‘syndromes’ or Schizophreniform (Schizophrenia-type) Disorders;
- Depression / Unipolar Illness;
- Mania / Bipolar Illness;
- DSM Personality Disorders;
- Substance Misuse Disorders;
- Generalised Anxiety Disorders;
- Self harm;
- ‘Forensic’ patients;
- Cognitive Illness;
- Co occurring illness (comorbidity);
- Typical medications and treatments associated with the above.
Delegates will be provided with a comprehensive workbook which provides the DSM criteria for each of the above illnesses (plus others). Relevant conditions will be reviewed in detail. Delegates will then be presented with a number of clinical case ‘vignettes’ and asked to work in groups and attempt to provide a potential clinical diagnosis, propose intervention plans (if appropriate) and discuss potential outcomes, dangers etc
Delegates will be encouraged to develop a constant risk-assessment approach by recognising the ‘assets’ and ‘liabilities’ of their relationships with residents and tenants and recognising the symptomology associated with particular illnesses.
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