Mental Health Awareness

What you'll learn

• Explain the importance of mental health awareness within healthcare settings
• Recall the prevalence and incidence of common mental health conditions within the UK
• Describe the signs and symptoms associated with common mental health presentations including: depression, anxiety, and psychosis
• Be able to assess and manage the risk of self-harm and suicide in those you work with
• Define 'stigma', and appreciate how mental health conditions are commonly stigmatised within contemporary UK healthcare and social settings
• Explain why early identification of mental health conditions is important
• Describe the social model of disability and explain its relevance to people with mental health conditions
• Describe ways in which health and social care can be adapted to better care for people with mental health conditions
• Recall the ways in which common mental health conditions may be managed including: the appropriate use of medication, the use of psychological therapi
• Appreciate the importance of monitoring your own mental health as a health and social care worker, and describe ways in which you can attend to your o
• Know where to find further support for your own, or others', mental health support needs
• List relevant legislation to working with and supporting people with mental health conditions including Mental Health Act 1983, 2007, Mental Capacity

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