Mental Health Awareness for Employees

Gain essential insights into mental health with our 3-hour Mental Health Awareness for Employees workshop, available face-to-face or virtually. This course is designed to help employees understand mental health and mental ill health, recognize common conditions and behaviors, and learn practical str

  • Audience

    To provide Employees with the knowledge and confidence to understand the spectrum of Mental Health and Mental Ill Health and to be able to spot common mental health conditions in themselves and others. It will highlight the factors that can affect mental health and will explain that the Mental Health Continuum is extremely fluid and will change with life events. The aim is to train the delegate in gaining understanding of how they can practically help themselves or another person who may be struggling with a Mental Health condition and have greater clarity as to the approaches that can support themselves or their colleagues into recovery

    Pe-requisites

    No pre-requisites required

    Duration

    3 hours

    Delivery Method

    Face to face or Virtual
  • Course Objectives

    • What is Mental Health and Mental Ill Health
    • The life and workplace factors that can affect Mental Health
    • The Mental Health Continuum
    • Understand common Mental Health Conditions and Symptoms
    • Recognise some Mental Health Behaviours in themselves or others
    • Become equipped to break down stigmas by using the correct approach,
    language and by leading by example
    • Supporting themselves and others to access help

    Course Content

    Steps to recovery

    MENTAL HEALTH DEFINITION
    • Discussing and fully understanding the spectrum of Mental Health and Mental Ill Health
    • Current Mental Health statistics in the workplace

    FACTORS WHICH CAN AFFECT MENTAL HEALTH
    • Work and lifestyle factors which can have a big impact on Mental Health as a whole
    • How ‘uncertainty’, the ‘hybrid’ way of working and ‘company change’ can affect Mental Health

    THE MENTAL HEALTH CONTINUUM
    • Understanding the Continuum
    • Which quadrant are we in?
    • Why we move around it
    • Important factors to consider

    COMMON MENTAL HEALTH CONDITION – SYMPTOMS AND BEHAVIOURS
    • Understanding Stress and the impact of long term stress on our physical body