The sad truth is that workers in the care sector have a suicide rate almost twice as high as the national average. Additionally, workers in this sector are vulnerable to a variety of mental health issues.
84% of carers feel stressed, 78% feel anxious and 55% reported that they suffered from depression as a result of their caring role.
Workers in the profession have some of the most emotionally challenging jobs imaginable. Caring for vulnerable people themselves, they often prioritise other’s mental wellbeing over their own.
Explore how to be helpful to someone experiencing a mental illness, while looking after your own health and wellbeing. Our course covers the core aspects mental health issues in caring, mental health problems and developed habits, necessity of timely external help and well being initiatives.
- The impact of mental health issues
- Myths and facts.
- Establishing effective relationships with people who live with mental health issues.
- Various types of mental health problems.
- The science behind our thinking.
- Where to go to for external help.
The course is suitable for anybody working in the care sector, including doctors, nurses, carers, youth workers, social care workers, therapists, charity workers and volunteers.
This is a short course and the course duration typically ranges from 3.5 hours to 4 hours. Course delivery can either be F2F/at workshop or via virtual course delivery mode, virtual sessions shall be of shorter duration.
For more detailed information about the course and the fee structure, please contact us.
There are three main course delivery modes at Southern Star Institute: Face-To-Face (F2F), Hybrid and Virtual. A participant can choose the most convenient mode for his training. However, the course structure and fees would vary for each mode. The educational content, however, would be the same but customizations would be made to suit the delivery needs.
Face-to-Face (F2F) Course Delivery
A Face-to-Face (F2F) course is delivered in a classroom setting. This means that scheduled normative hours take place in the physical classroom. F2F classroom interaction takes the form of in-person, real-time interaction between the trainer/facilitator and the participants. A F2F course would be taught for the duration specified for the respective course over a number of days or day as required. The sessions would be divided in the best possible way to effectively structure the course and convey key information to the participants.
Hybrid Course Delivery
A hybrid (or blended) course combines in-class instruction and activities with flexible, guided online learning in a virtual environment. Guided online activities in hybrid courses engage participants with independent, active learning that is supported, performed or submitted via our course learning management process. A hybrid course allows for many possible combinations of in-class and online instruction, interaction and digital learning activities, as well as a wide variety of deliverables.
Virtual Course Delivery
A fully online course is delivered virtually. This means that scheduled normative hours take place outside of a physical classroom. Fully online courses provide participants with flexibility to personalize their schedules as the course teaching and learning activities occur online through the use of our learning management process. Participants complete training, course requirements and collaborate on topics using a wide range of educational technologies and digital learning activities.
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