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Mental Health Awareness Train the Trainer

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Managing your staff’s mental health is crucial to a successful workplace – whether it’s work-related stress or personal issues at home, the mental health needs of your team are important to establishing a positive workplace culture. It’s important to be able to understand how to identify these problems and know how you can help.

This Mental Health Awareness Train the Trainer course teaches learners about mental health disorders, how to treat them, and how to respectfully support staff with mental health disorders.

Learners will also be taught how to confidently and successfully and confidently teach an in-house Mental Health Awareness training course to others learning a range of proven teaching methods, different learning styles, presentation skills and the dos and don’ts of being a trainer.

Upon successful completion of the Mental Health Train the Trainer course, your company will be rewarded with a certified Mental Health Awareness trainer on-site to be able to teach this subject anytime you need.

What is the Train the Trainer Model?

The Train the Trainer model is a programme that aims to develop the skills and knowledge of individuals who will be responsible for training others in a specific field or industry. Through this model, trainers receive training, coaching, and mentoring to improve their training skills, techniques, and strategies.

Some of the skills that trainers develop through the Train the Trainer Model include:

  • Understanding the roles and responsibilities of trainers
  • Creating a safe and supportive learning environment
  • Facilitating learning and development in individuals and groups
  • Applying assessment and evaluation when training
  • Identifying different learning styles and adapting training to suit them
  • Using effective communication and questioning techniques
  • Providing constructive feedback and reinforcement to learners
  • Encouraging reflection and self-evaluation in learners
  • Developing learning materials and resources
  • Managing group dynamics and challenging situations during training.

The Train the Trainer model is a programme that aims to develop the skills and knowledge of individuals who will be responsible for training others in a specific field or industry. Through this model, trainers receive training, coaching, and mentoring to improve their training skills, techniques, and strategies.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this course learners should know and understand the following:

  • Defining mental health: Define the term ‘mental health’ and understand its importance to an individual’s well-being.

  • Identifying disorders: Understand and describe a number of mental health disorders and the effect(s) they may have on a person.

  • Making referrals: Learn when and how to make referrals.

  • Supporting others: Understand how to support those with mental health disorders.

  • Discrimination and stigma: Recognise and manage discrimination and stigma relating to mental health.

  • Treating mental health disorders: Understand how mental health disorders can be treated or managed.

  • Side effects of medication: Understand the different side effects of medications used to manage mental health conditions.

  • Teaching methods: Deliver sessions with different teaching methods to suit the classroom.

  • Learning styles: Understand different learning styles and identify the best time to use them.

  • Retain information: Possess a knowledge of how people retain information.

  • Feedback & Evaluation: How to evaluate appropriately, and give and receive feedback to the learners.

  • Ice-breakers: Learn different ways to ‘break the ice’ with the whole classroom.

  • Presentation skills: Confidently present your session to others.

  • Dos and don’ts: The dos and don’ts of being a trainer.

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