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Mental Health Awareness training to support colleagues facing mental health problems.

The concept of good mental health describes a sense of general wellbeing, the capacity to live in a resourceful and fulfilling manner and having the resilience to deal with the obstacles that life presents.

Mental health problems may be defined as those in which an individual is distracted from ordinary daily living by disturbing and upsetting thoughts, feelings and behaviours.

Our training solution covers the management and awareness of mental health and wellbeing in the workplace, this includes not only supporting those with living with mental health problems, but assisting all managers and employees to incorporate positive practices in their home and working lives, negating or minimising the impact of stress and anxiety on their wellbeing.

Course Content for managers/employees:

  • Identify and recognise the symptoms/signs of mental health problems
  • Define Mental Health, looking at common/acute situations
  • Understand the various concepts of mental health and distress
  • Individual Reactions/Group Reactions/Team Dynamics
  • Understand the principle of containment
  • Develop skills to effectively manage and support teams
  • Duty of Care/HSE Management Standards (Mental Health)
  • To raise awareness of mental health in the workplace
  • To equip managers with the tools to engage with mental health difficulties among staff members and to boost levels of wellbeing in their teams
  • Understanding of common mental health issues and how to support them
  • Recognising early use of the organisational support available leading to a reduction in absence and a swifter return to work and staff retention
  • Cultural changes around general healthy habits and lifestyle brining positive benefits to the team
  • Identify and understand signs and symptoms of common mental health problems
  • Understand how managers affect staff
  • Identify positive attributes that can be modelled to team members
  • Think creatively about their own wellbeing and identify main stress triggers
  • Use the HSE guidelines on stress in the workplace
  • Define personal strategies to minimise the stress response
  • Enhanced work performance and reduction in the level of Mental Health related issues and possible absenteeism