MHFA - Standard Mental Health First Aid Training Courses Brisbane
Mental Illness in Australia
Based on the survey conducted by the Australian Bureau of statistics in 2007, one in five Australian’s aged between 16 to 85, are suffering from some form of mental illness. The common mental illnesses are anxiety disorder, affective or mood disorder, and substance use disorders. Mental illness is very common and impacts on people's lives at different levels of severity.
Mental illness impacts on a person emotions, thinking, behaviour, motivation and interaction with other people. In some occasions people living with mental illness will not be diagnosed. This may also cause loss of home, isolation, deprived physical health, loss of employment, school dropout and stigmatisation. A lack of knowledge and discrimination about mental illness may cause people to avoid getting help early.
We all can expect to have close contact with someone experiencing a mental illness. Standard MHFA training will provide you information on how to assist a family member, colleague, friend with a mental health illness or in a crisis, until appropriate professional support and treatment is received or until the crisis is resolved.
Mental Health First Aid
The Standard MHFA course is a evidence based course based on the international MHFA Guidelines. Content of this first aid course is developed and authored by Mental Health First Aid Australia. Mental health professionals, researchers and consumer advocates contributed to this course content. We are delivering this first aid course by an accredited MHFA facilitator in Brisbane CBD and Brendale.
Mental Health First Aid Training Courses
Participants will learn all the signs and symptoms of depression, anxiety, psychosis and substance use disorder, and how to provide initial support to a person who is developing a mental illness or experiencing a mental health crisis. Learners will also learn MHFA action plan on how, what, when and where to administer mental health first aid.
This course is evidence-based and addresses possible crisis circumstancesbased on the mental health problems. And provides learners practical mental health first aid response.
Crisis situations covered are suicidal thoughts and behaviours, non-suicidal self-injury, panic attacks, traumatic events, severe psychotic states, severe effects from alcohol or other drug use, aggressive behaviours.
Benefits of MHFA training
MHFA training participants will gain skills to recognise a mental health crisis, respond and support the individual to their positive health, recovery and return to work including:
- Awareness of just how common mental health issues are among communities.
- De-stigmatise mental health illness, increase knowledge and understanding
- Recognising if a person is going through difficult times due to a mental health problem.
- Support someone suffering from a mental health crisis or condition when professional assistance and support is not available
Course Duration
This MHFA training course is delivered by an accredited MHFA Instructor and is delivered over a 2-days period (12 hours)
Course Fee*: $295 + GST
Participants feedback MHFA Training
" Seb makes each participant very comfortable and also encourages every participant to put their personal views on each task, which is really good to get into a group discussion. She is super approachable and pleasant personality so even introvert participants can feel ease and ask their specific queries. Seb is quite knowledgeable and speaks quite well. I would highly recommend this course and the same instructor to my friends and colleagues:)"
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"Sebnem was a great instructor. She was very knowledgeable and personable, and had the class engaged from start to end. She covered the content very well and had an array of activities throughout the day which helped to embed the content."
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"Seb is super knowledgeable, and well versed in the subject matter. Her attitude and fun nature makes learning the content easier, and more real. She has a way of making the room feel at ease with the content, and I was particularly impressed with the way she ensured everyone felt comfortable and not impacted by the content we were covering."
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"The instructor Seb demonstrated excellent subject knowledge and application I thoroughly enjoyed and benefitted from her style of presentation and thoughtfulness about student needs"
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"Seb had a great way of creating a comfortable and safe learning environment."
Mental Health First Aid Course Locations in Brisbane
We are offering Standard Mental Health First Aid Training courses in 2 different locations, Brisbane City and Brendale.
- Brisbane CBD: George Williams Hotel Brisbane 317-325 George Street Brisbane Qld 4003
- Brendale: 6/211 Leitchs Road Brendale QLD 4500