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Mental Health First Aid

Mental Health First Aid Training

Learn how to assist an adult who may be experiencing a mental health problem or mental health crisis until appropriate professional help is received or the crisis is resolved.


PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Mental Health First Aid course equips adults with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to recognise, understand and respond to a friend, family member, co-worker or another adult experiencing a mental health problem or mental health crisis. Participants will learn how to assist an adult who may be experiencing a mental health problem or mental health crisis until appropriate professional help is received or the crisis is resolved.


CONTENT

The course is based on guidelines developed through the expert consensus of people with lived experience of mental health problems and professionals. It provides an overview of mental illnesses, risk factors, prevalence, and impact before taking a much closer look at the following mental health problems:

  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • Psychosis
  • Bipolar
  • Substance use problems

REQUIREMENTS

A Language, Literacy & Numeracy (LLN) assessment must be completed prior to training.


CERTIFICATION

This is a non-accredited training course, participants will be issued with a Certificate of Attendance upon successful completion of the course.


Before you register online you will need to have:

Your Unique Student Identifier (USI). If you do not have one you will need to have either one of the following – Medicare Card, Birth Certificate, Driver Licence, Australian Passport, Citizenship Document, Certificate of Registration by descent, ImmiCard or Australian Entry Visa during this online process. To create or find your USI, please follow this link: https://www.usi.gov.au/

The TFA rebate can be applied at checkout using the applicable Promo Code, please refer to our Pricing Guide here: Policies and Procedures – Master Builders ACT


Sessions

If you are booking on behalf of someone else, please select the ‘Group Booking’ option.

Standard Enrolment
There are currently no openings available for this course.

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