Mental Health, Self-Harm and Suicide Awareness

This course is designed for staff who are working with vulnerable adults and children, and want to improve communication skills, understanding of warning signs and overall support methods.

As a participant, you'll be equipped with skills and knowledge of how to support people with Mental Health including identifying signs of a person struggling with their mental health, Self-Harm and Suicide risks. In addition to this provide them with the skills to administer Mental Health First Aid.

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Duration: 6 hours

Maximum Capacity: 8-16

Session Format: Classroom Based Learning

Course Overview

The Mental Health, Self-Harm, and Suicide Awareness Course has been expertly designed to provide care professionals with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to recognise, act and support individuals who may be struggling with their mental health and require professional support and advice.

This course is suitable for individuals who wish to improve their confidence and knowledge surrounding mental health and suicide and how best to approach different scenarios and the people involved.

Whether you are new to the care industry or would like to train a large group of staff members to ensure consistency within the workplace, our trainers are equipped to provide essential awareness to safeguard vulnerable individuals and support them with empathy in a professional manner.

What’s Involved?

This training session explores various aspects of mental health and self harm, and the signs and behaviours that may indicate someone is at risk. As a learner, you will gain valuable insight into understanding how stigma and trauma can impact an individual’s mental health, and how you can approach individuals in a non-judgmental manner.

We deliver this in a classroom setting which we believe gives learners a better opportunity to engage with other learners through open discussions, real-world case studies, and group activities to help build confidence and develop practical skills they can put into practice within their roles.

Our training covers various key areas including:

Understanding the difference between mental health and mental health illness

How mental illness can impact individuals day-to-day

Be able to identify early warning signs of mental health concerns and conditions

How to support individuals

Learning Outcomes

Know the difference between mental health and mental health illness.

Know what your aims are when supporting people with their mental health.

Know how mental illness can impact on day-to-day activities.

Identify how stigma can impact mental health.

Know how substance use can impact mental health.

Know the impact stress can have on a person.

Be able to identify the early warning signs of mental ill health.

Be able to identify several mental health conditions and the signs and symptoms of these conditions.

Know what you can do to support people with their mental health.

The benefits of completing the Mental Health, Self-Harm and Suicide Awareness course

Gain confidence in sensitive situations

You’ll learn how to stay professional and calm in stressful, sensitive situations that may cause distress to the individuals around you. You’ll be able to identify the risk factors, and how to approach them.

Improve your communication skills

Developing strong communication skills will ensure you learn how to listen effectively and respond in an empathetic manner that benefits both service users and colleagues.

Support your personal growth

Continue your learning with Empeiria Training. Our course enables you to keep developing your own skills, building upon your career path and improving both soft and hard skills required within the social care sector.

Demonstrate compliance

Our course ensures you and your team can support CQC requirements around safeguarding, safety and effective care.

Improve workplace culture

Build a workplace where mental health can be discussed openly, understood without judgement, and supported in day-to-day actions, and responsibilities.

Reduce risk and liability

When you can spot potential warning signs early, you can make practical and professional decisions to help vulnerable individuals and ensure safeguarding practices are achieved correctly.

Why choose Empeiria Training?

Empeiria Training is all about offering training that is unique and bespoke to your organisation and its needs.
It's our mission to deliver a range of bespoke training solutions, underpinned by a diverse breadth of knowledge and experience. We offer a safe environment for face-to-face learning, with our specialism being working with people with learning disabilities.

Ready to get started on your course? Speak to one of our team members to find the right course for you today!

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