Youth Mental First Aid
Learner Outcomes
The Youth MHFA course will teach you how to:
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Spot the early signs of a mental health problem in young people
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Feel confident helping a young person experiencing a problem
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Provide help on a first aid basis
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Help protect a young person who might be at risk of harm
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Help prevent a mental health illness from getting worse
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Help a young person recover faster
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Guide a young person towards the right support
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Reduce the stigma of mental health problems
Key areas covered within the course include:
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Promoting emotional, mental, social and psychological well-being
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Eating disorders
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Self harm
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Diversity and Equality issues
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Substance/Alcohol misuse
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Suicide
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Child, adolescent and family psychosocial development
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Depression/Anxiety/Psychosis
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Bullying/Cyber bullying
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Promoting protective factors and good parenting
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Solution Focussed Therapy
Participants will be given the opportunity to:
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understand how to integrate solution focused approaches, skills and principles into their practice
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understand where to gain on-going support to develop a solution focused approach within their work
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develop their capacity to construct effective partnerships and agreements with children, young people and their families
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develop their ability to listen, communicate and help children, young people and families
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identify and access their own resources, strengths and skills; to make effective choices and enable lasting change and increased safety
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consider how to engage and work with children, young people and their families whilst building their resilience
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learn how to use solution focused techniques (creative and linguistic) in a range of environments including, child, adolescent and family work, team meetings and inter agency meetings
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learn how to use solution focused techniques to improve inter agency and inter professional, collaborative working whilst maintaining safety as the primary focus.
Course Length
2 day programme
Target Audience
Teachers, Learning Assistants, SENCO’s, Heads and Deputy heads, Learning mentors
Please see our downloadable version of Youth Mental First Aid