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Specialist Mental Health Programmes
Mental health awareness training
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Synopsis:
To offer an introduction to mental health and include topics such as a review of the changes in perception of the nature of mental illness in Western society with the consequent changes in the way services are delivered; an understanding of basic mental health problems, signs and symptom of mental illness, nature and causes of mental illness, boundaries, confidentiality, an understanding of issues around service, delivery from the perspective of the person with mental illness.
Aims & objectives:
- To increase staff awareness of their attitudes to mental illness.
- To increase staff awareness of the range and complexity of symptoms associated with mental illness.
- To reflect on the importance of boundaries which staff need to maintain when working in this specialist area and to establish what those boundaries need to be.
- To reinforce the issue of confidentiality.
- To acquire a basic understanding of the development that has occurred in Western society towards those people with mental health problems and look at attitudinal change.
- To explore in simple terms the disabling effects that mental health symptoms can cause.
- To explore briefly the main issues surrounding confidentiality.
- To develop an appreciation of what is valued by the user in the way in which services are delivered.
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• Up • Advocacy and mental health • Alzheimer's disease • Appropriate adult training • An holistic approach to mental health • Care Programme Approach • Communicating effectively with people with mental illness • Customer care training for clinicians • Dual diagnosis: mental health needs and learning disabilities • Working with people with eating disorders • Client and carer focused mental health assessments • Dementia • Supporting people with dementia • Mental health awareness training • Law in mental health practice • The Mental Health Act 1983 and the Code of Practice • Mental health familiarisation • Working with mental health clients and issues • Working with people with personality disorders • Client and Carer Focused Mental Health Assessments •
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