Specialist Sector Modules
Mental Health for Care Professionals
A short grounding in mental health conditions, stigma, recovery-focused practice and the Mental Health Act for care staff.
- Duration
- 3 guided hours
- Structure
- 4 modules · 15 lessons
- Accreditation
- CPD Certification Service
About this course
This short course gives care professionals a working understanding of common mental health conditions, the social and clinical factors that shape them, stigma and its effects, recovery-focused and trauma-informed practice, and the legal framework including the Mental Health Act 1983 as amended and its interface with the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
What you will be able to do
- Describe common mental health conditions and how they present in care settings
- Apply recovery-focused and trauma-informed principles to daily practice
- Challenge stigma and discriminatory practice
- Outline the Mental Health Act framework and its interface with the Mental Capacity Act