The Blended Mental Health First Aid course teaches people (18 years and over) how to offer initial support to adults who are developing a mental health problem, experiencing a worsening of an existing mental health problem or in a mental health crisis, until appropriate professional help is received or the crisis resolves. The course curriculum is evidence-based, as informed by the MHFA Guidelines.

WHAT THE COURSE COVERS

Course participants learn about the signs and symptoms of the common and disabling mental health problems, how to provide initial help, where and how to get professional help, what sort of help has been shown by research to be effective, and how to provide first aid in a crisis situation.

Developing mental health problems covered are:

+ Depression
+ Anxiety problems
+ Psychosis
+ Substance use problems.

Mental health crisis situations covered are:

+ Suicidal thoughts and behaviours
+ Non-suicidal self-injury (sometimes called deliberate self-harm)
+ Panic attacks
+ Traumatic events
+ Severe effects of drug or alcohol use
+ Severe psychotic states
+ Aggressive behaviours.

COURSE FORMAT

This is a 100% online course blends the best of self paced and instructor led learning. 

> Course Component 1 - A self-paced eLearning component (takes 5-7 hours to complete)

> Course Component 2 - An Instructor-led component using video conferencing (2 sessions of 2.5 hours each).

Friday 23rd July and Friday 30th July, 9-11.30am AEST on each day

"Outstanding and thought provoking. I found this course extremely informative and believe it will help me, both in my professional and personal life."

"I think it was a fantastic course and hope that every single Australian is given the opportunity to take part in it.""I consider it a privilege to have been able to attend and learn so much from this course."