Course content
Session A - Understanding Mental Health
An overview of the mental health landscape and its relevance to individuals
- Recognise challenges to our own mental health
- Challenge the stigma associated with mental health
- Increase tools at our disposal for taking care of our own mental health
Session B – Understanding Anxiety and Depression
Recognise the differences between natural feelings and mental illness
- Increase your awareness of the signs, symptoms and risk factors for anxiety and depressive disorders
- Explore comorbidity between anxiety and depression
- Create a toolkit for talking about and responding to anxiety and depression
Session C – Reflecting on Resilience
Reflect on how we build resilience in our personal lives. Learn to identify and manage challenges and understand boundaries, whilst being kind to ourselves.
- Why being resilient plays such an important part of our everyday life
- Understand what resilience is (and what it is not) and to gain knowledge of our own level of resilience
- How to build and improve your resilience
Session D – Understanding Stress and Burnout
Reflect on stress and burnout, focusing on impact, symptoms and a support toolkit.
- Understand the impact of stress on mental and physical wellbeing
- Increase awareness of the signs, symptoms and risk factors for burnout
- Consider ways to reduce/mitigate burnout