Understanding Mental Health

Overview

This mental health e-learning course sets out to provide your learners with a wide understanding of mental health issues and the signs to look out for with their colleagues and themselves. The aim is to support the promotion of a safe and respectful workplace culture, with teams that are better equipped to manage concerns that arise around mental health and actively support each other. By creating an environment that promotes wellbeing, employees feel supported and valued.

The first three modules of this course will help raise your learner’s awareness of mental health issues. Giving them an understanding of the potential issues and the confidence to raise concerns about mental health, whether it be their own or that of their colleagues.

The final three modules of the course focus on a leader’s role in supporting mental health issues at work. Raising their ability to identify and manage concerns around the mental health of employees while creating a positive culture and a healthy workplace.

Objectives

• Understand mental health and why it is important to create a workplace culture that supports it
• Review the different types of personality disorders and mental illness that can arise, what to look out for and the symptoms.
• Recognise the impact of mental health in the workplace and know what to do when mental health issues arise. Establish methods of talking about mental health in the workplace
• Help create a positive healthy workplace environment where individuals are supported, and plans are in place to manage concerns
• Identify current competencies for managing mental health and developing an action plan to fill any gaps

Audience

The course provides an in-depth overview of different types of mental health and exposure on how to handle it.