Location
Details
Cost
Places
Waterside Centre Accrington
TUE - 14/01/2025
13:00 to 16:00
16 week course
£156.00
10 Places Remaining
Course Overview

This programme provides learners with an awareness of mental health and the problems that can cause mental ill health.
These may be learners who wish to access this training with a view to progressing to further qualifications or employment within health and social care, to complement other qualifications within health or health and social care, or to develop in their current job role within health and social care.

What will I learn?

This qualification consists of 10 mandatory units including:

• Understanding mental health
• Understanding stress
• Understanding anxiety
• Understanding phobias
• Understanding depression
• Understanding postnatal depression
• Understanding bipolar disorder
• Understanding schizophrenia
• Understanding dementia
• Understanding eating disorders

Learners will find out more about each condition including possible causes, the possible affects on individuals and their family and friends and how to access support.

How will the course be assessed?

Learners attend weekly sessions and engage in learning activities to support the learning outcomes. Progressing each week, learning will be structured towards completing both individual and group activities to increase knowledge and understanding which will be assessed using a range of methods. Further support and learning can be accessed through the Moodle page, which will support the length of the course with activities, resources and further reading links.

Materials and other information

The Additional Learning Support Team work across college supporting students with a variety of learning needs in different ways. Support can be requested at enrolment or at any point throughout your course. For more information about ALS or for support booking onto a course telephone 0333 0031717

Progression and Careers

· Regular submission of work that will be assessed and reviewed weekly.
· Learners will receive feedback in order to further develop their knowledge
· Learners will assess their knowledge at the start of the course and again at the end against the learning outcomes. This allows them to identify how much they have learnt and where they might need to do further study or research.
· Learners will also be supported to set an individual target(s) for the course based on starting points, personal goals and career aspirations.