Mental Health Awareness

This course offers a comprehensive foundation in understanding mental health needs and using this information to deliver effective, person-centred care. Throughout this training, you’ll learn about various mental health conditions, tailoring your care approaches, and promoting overall wellbeing for individuals you support, as well as yourself.

What will be covered?

• What mental health is
• Understanding the mental health continuum
• Having knowledge of your own stress container
• Understanding your own frame of reference and how this may affect how you support someone.
• Awareness of a variety of mental health conditions, including anxiety and depression
• Recognising some of the early indicators of ill mental health
• Self-help strategies and helpful resources

This session will be held online via Zoom.

Funding

Our PA training courses are currently fully funded by Skills for Care. This funding is available for Individual Employers living in England, aged 18 and over who employ their own PAs or contract* self-employed PAs, using either:

• their own money
• adult social care Direct Payments
• NHS Personal Health Budgets.

*’Contracted’ refers to PAs with true self-employed status. We may ask for evidence from self-employed PAs accessing training.

If you do not qualify for this funding and still wish to attend, there will be a cost of £40 per person. For more information or any questions, please email training@independentlives.org.

Please click here for information on our cancellation policy.