Mental Health Awareness Training for frontline staff

Introduction

About the training

Find below the pre-recorded training three modules, A, B and C.

Across the training, you will learn skills to engage people in conversations in mental health and wellbeing and what to do when someone is experiencing a mental health or emotional wellbeing crisis.

These pre-recorded training videos follow a total of 30 online, live training workshops which were held in early 2023.

About Healthy Dialogues

Healthy Dialogues Ltd is a Public Health consultancy and established Health and Wellbeing training provider for the public and voluntary sector. Our trainings are conducted by a team of Chartered Health Psychologists that specialise in behaviour change with a focus on positive health and wellbeing outcomes for individuals and communities.

Championing mental health and wellbeing in London

This training series has been funded by the Mayor of London, to support Londoners recover from the mental health impacts of the pandemic and face the cost-of-living crisis. This comes as thousands of Londoners pledge to become champions for positive wellbeing where they are empowered to act to improve their own and their communities’ wellbeing.

Module A

Module A: What is mental health and where to find support

This module will help participants:

1) Develop an understanding of the psychosocial model of mental health and wellbeing and the 5-ways to wellbeing.
2) Understand the relationship between mental health and stigma related to financial hardships.
3) Recognise when and where to appropriately access support and information.

Leading this video is Rebecca Maclean, an Assistant Health Psychologist at Healthy Dialogues. Rebecca has delivered a range of health and wellbeing programmes, with a focus on mental health. Rebecca has previous experience of working with older adults in addition to designing and leading health promotion sessions with forensic psychiatric inpatients.

Module B

Module B: Having conversations about mental health

This module will help participants to develop conversational skills for brief interventions to engage people opportunistically and empathetically in conversations about mental health, wellbeing, including financial wellbeing.

Leading this video is Dr Puja Patel, (CPsychol), a Chartered Health Psychologist at Healthy Dialogues. As a Health Psychologist, Puja has worked on various projects specifically focusing on training development and delivery, and service evaluation for mental health and wellbeing. Puja has also previously worked within the voluntary sector for over eight years working with marginalised women and women from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds and developed and delivered cultural awareness and safety training within the perinatal mental health sector.

Module C

Module C: How to support someone experiencing a mental health crisis

This module will help participants to understand what to do in an emergency situation where someone is experiencing an emotional or a mental health crisis.

Leading this video is Dr Puja Patel, (CPsychol), a Chartered Health Psychologist at Healthy Dialogues. As a Health Psychologist, Puja has worked on various projects specifically focusing on training development and delivery, and service evaluation for mental health and wellbeing. Puja has also previously worked within the voluntary sector for over eight years working with marginalised women and women from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds and developed and delivered cultural awareness and safety training within the perinatal mental health sector.

Certificate of completion

Once you have completed modules A-C of the Mental Health Awareness Training for frontline staff then please fill out this online form.

The form will give you an opportunity to reflect on your learning, and provide information to receive a certificate of completion and certified badge, which can be used to demonstrate your knowledge and skills in the area of mental health and impact of financial hardships. If you require support in completing this or would like it in another format, then please contact the Thrive LDN team.

Further resources

Access further free mental health training

In response to the increased cost-of-living pressures, Thrive LDN is promoting a series of free training offers to support London’s key workers, community champions and volunteers. Find out more via the links below.

1) Trauma-informed practice training

Thrive LDN is working with Nicola Lester Psychological Trauma Consultancy to support individuals and organisations to access free, pre-recorded trauma-informed practice training. Offered at three levels, bronze, silver and gold, this training series is designed to help professionals and volunteers gain an understanding of the impact of trauma and to integrate a trauma informed approach to practice.

2) Suicide prevention training

Thrive LDN has partnered with the Zero Suicide Alliance, who have created a free, online training program to help people to be able to identify warning signs and to feel comfortable having conversations about suicide. Now more than 335,000 amazing Londoners have accessed suicide prevention training since the launch of the Zero Suicide LDN campaign by the Mayor of London in 2019. Join them today, take the training.

2) Help yourself and Others

Thrive LDN’s Help Yourself and Others section of our website focuses on things that enable good wellbeing, alongside free wellbeing training opportunities.

Getting Through This Together

The Getting Through This Together campaign has been developed by Thrive LDN in response to the increased cost-of-living pressures.

The campaign aims to encourage Londoners to strengthen their social networks with family members and friends, and trusted others in their community, as well as highlighting the professional support and advice services which are available.

These mental health awareness training sessions form part of the campaign’s range of tools and resources to protect and enhance people’s mental wellbeing, so that they can adapt and thrive after their lives have been disrupted by current shocks.