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Youth Mental Health First Aider (Online)

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Become a certified Youth Mental Health First Aider online

Certified through MHFA England • Instruction by Peter Larkum •  2-week online course
This is the online equivalent course to the in-person Youth MHFA 2 Day.


Price
£360 (£300 + VAT)

Registration deadline
Thu 18 Feb, noon

Live sessions
Tue 23 Feb
Fri 26 Feb
Tue 2 Mar
Fri 5 Mar


Identify, understand, and help

Youth Mental Health First Aid is an educational course which teaches people how to identify, understand and help a person who may be developing a mental health issue. In the same way as we learn physical first aid, Mental Health First Aid teaches you how to recognise those crucial warning signs of mental ill health.


Structure

This 2-week online course starts on Sat 20 Feb (to give you time to complete the self-learning activities before our first live session on Tue 23 Feb) and concludes Fri 5 Mar. There are…

  • 4 live sessions with Peter (3 hours each)

  • Self-learning activities to complete before each live session

  • A physical manual and workbook (shipped to your address)

Online live sessions

  1. Tue 23 Feb, 1 – 4pm

  2. Fri 26 Feb, 1 – 4pm

  3. Tue 2 Mar, 1 – 4pm

  4. Fri 5 Mar, 1 – 4pm

Live sessions with Peter are conducted over a password-protected private meeting on Enabley and built around a Mental Health First Aid action plan.

Self-learning activities

Before each live session with Peter, we provide self-learning activities from a workbook to complete.

You will have access to start the first self-learning activities 4 days before the first live session. They can be done at your own pace, in your own time, so long as you’re complete before the next live session.

Course materials are shipped to your address in advance.

Find more details of the course outline below.

Course numbers

Due to some of the sensitive subjects within the MHFA courses, including suicide, we limit numbers to 16 people. We want everyone to feel safe and Peter can help if anyone finds some bits particularly difficult.


You'll learn how to…

  • Spot the early signs of a mental health problem in young people

  • Feel confident helping a young person experiencing a problem

  • Provide help on a first aid basis

  • Help protect a young person who might be at risk of harm

  • Help prevent a mental health illness from getting worse

  • Help a young person recover faster

  • Guide a young person towards the right support

  • Reduce the stigma of mental health problems

By the end of the course, you’ll have…

  • A certificate of attendance to say you are a Youth Mental Health First Aider

  • A manual to refer to whenever you need it

  • A quick reference card for the Mental Health First Aid action plan

  • A workbook including a helpful toolkit to support your own mental health

What's the course like?

The course is a mix of online presentation and group discussions with self-learning activities guided by a physical course handbook.

We provide a very safe learning environment and are trained to support you throughout the whole course. If you don't feel comfortable joining in certain bits, then don't, we won't make you do something you aren't comfortable with.


Delivered by award-winning MHFA instructor Peter Larkum

Peter has been delivering the MHFA courses for over 10 years and has trained tens of thousands of delegates across all sectors. Awarded for ‘Excellence in Training’ Peter carries his energetic, engaging and empathetic delivery into his online presentation style.

Clients delivered to include:

Cisco • Ministry of Defence  • Oxfam  • WHSmith  • BBC  • Network Rail  • Aviva  • Oxford University  • British Gas  • YMCA  • The NHS  • Hampshire County Council  • Princes Trust


Course outline

Section 1: Introduction

Individual self-learning (1 hour 15 mins)

  • Introduction to the Online Youth Mental Health First Aid course and the Online Learning Hub

  • Activity 1: Why Youth Mental Health First Aid?

  • Activity 2: What is ALGEE?

  • Activity 3: What is mental health?

  • Activity 4: Mental health and stigma

  • Activity 5: Mental health quiz: Impact of mental health

  • Activity 6: Risk and protective factors for mental health

  • Activity 7: The Stress Container

Live session #1

  • Introduction to the course

  • Outline of live session 1, the value of Youth Mental Health First Aid

  • Introduce ALGEE 

  • Recap what mental health is 

  • Recap the Mental Health Continuum 

  • Stigma 

  • Recap why Youth Mental Health First Aid is important 

  • Recap risk and protective factors 

  • The Stress Container 

  • The Frame of Reference

Section 2: Depression, anxiety and self-care

Individual self-learning (1 hour 15 mins)

  • Activity 8: Your Stress Container

  • Activity 9: Your Frame of Reference

  • Activity 10: What is depression?

  • Activity 11: What is anxiety?

Live session #2

  • Introduction to live session 2

  • Recap of homework after live session 1

  • Recap depression

  • Signs and symptoms of depression in a young person

  • Recap anxiety

  • Signs and symptoms of anxiety in a young person

  • ALGEE for depression and anxiety in a young person

  • ALGEE for depression and anxiety, action 1

  • ALGEE for depression and anxiety, action 2-5

  • Self-care and close

Section 3: Suicide and psychosis

Individual self-learning (1 hour 20 mins)

  • Activity 12: Adolescent brain development

  • Activity 13: About suicide

  • Activity 14: Suicide risk factors

  • Activity 15: What is psychosis?

  • Activity 16: Lived experience of psychosis

  • Activity 17: ALGEE for psychosis

Live session #3

  • Introduction to live session 3

  • Recap suicide

  • Explore the impact of suicidal feelings

  • ALGEE for suicidal crisis

  • Practice non-judgemental listening skills

  • Recap psychosis

  • Recap warning signs and symptoms of psychosis

  • Recap ALGEE for psychosis

Session 4: Self-harm, recovery and action planning

Individual self-learning (1 hour 35 mins)

  • Activity 18: What is self-harm?

  • Activity 19: What are eating disorders?

  • Activity 20: Resilience

  • Workbook activity 7: My action plan for using Youth Mental Health First Aid (completed after live session)

Live session #4

  • Introduction to live session 4

  • Recap self-harm, the self-harm continuum

  • Warning signs of self-harm in young people

  • ALGEE for self-harm

  • Recap eating disorders

  • ALGEE for eating disorders

  • Applying MHFA to family and carers; the Recovery Tree

  • Evaluation forms and close

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