FAA Level 3 Award in Supervising First Aid for Mental Health – 2 day

This 12-hour qualification gives delegates the skills and knowledge to recognise a wide range of mental health conditions, and engage in non-judgemental conversation, and learn about and guide a person towards the support/therapy provided by healthcare professionals

Learners will gain an in depth understanding of mental health and the relevant issues that can affect wellbeing, as well as practical skills to identify appropriate triggers and signs of mental illness, and the knowledge and confidence to intervene, reassure and support a person in distress.    

Learners will not diagnose or treat mental health conditions as this can only be carried out by healthcare professionals but will gain the knowledge to identify when a person may have a condition and know where they can go to get help.

The Course content:

Day One

• Introduction
• What is mental health?
  
• Identifying mental health conditions
• Providing advice and starting a conversation
  
• Stress
• Drugs and alcohol
• First aid action plan for mental health
  
• Mental health in the workplace
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Assessment feedback and closure.

Day 2

• Introduction and recap on day one
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Self-harm
• Suicide
• Eating disorders
• Personality disorders
• Bipolar disorder
• Psychosis
• Schizophrenia
• Assessment, feedback and close.