Course content and Blended Online details for the MHFA Workplace Course

 
 

Course Description

The Blended Online MHFA Workplace Course has been adapted from the Standard Mental Health First Aid Course for adults.

In this informative and practical course, you will learn about the signs and symptoms of common and disabling mental health problems in adults, how to provide initial help, where and how to get professional help, what sort of help has been shown by research to be effective, and how to provide mental health first aid in a crisis situation using a practical, evidence-based action plan.

This course focuses on the workplace and provides relevant information and tailored scenarios and exercises that will provide participants with the knowledge and skills to provide initial mental health first aid to assist colleagues, clients, and other workplace contacts who may be developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis, and how to connect people needing assistance to existing workplace supports and external professional help.

The Blended Online MHFA Workplace Course includes two course components.

 
 

Course Component 1

This self-paced eLearning (5-7 hours) component of the course is completed on Mental Health First Aid Australia’s eLearning platform.

The cost of the eLearning course (Course Component 1) is $88 including GST and is available for purchase directly through the MHFA Australia website OR may be purchased via us at InBloom as part of a total course price.

Whether purchasing directly via the MHFA website OR InBloom, the eLearning course component price includes a hard copy MHFA Standard Course Manual. Postage cost for the Manual is additional.

The eLearning course component presents an overview of mental health problems and mental health crises.

Developing mental health problems covered include:

  • Depression

  • Anxiety problems

  • Psychosis

  • Substance use problems

Mental health crises covered:

  • Suicidal thoughts and behaviours

  • Non-suicidal self-injury

  • Panic attacks

  • Traumatic events

  • Severe psychotic states

  • Severe effects from alcohol or other drug use

  • Aggressive behaviour

 
 

Course Component 2

The Instructor-led video conferencing sessions (2 x 2.5 hours) are delivered by our MHFA accredited InBloom Instructor (certified to deliver Blended Online courses).

The cost of Course Component 2 (2 x 2.5 hour Instructor-led video conferencing sessions) will depend on how many people in your organisation enrolls in the program. Contact us directly to know what the price would be for you.

Course Component 2 provides participants with the opportunity to:

  • Revise the eLearning content and the MHFA Action Plan

  • Clarify any points of uncertainty remaining after completion of the eLearning modules

  • Apply the MHFA Action Plan to relevant scenarios

  • Discuss and reflect 'a where to from now' in using mental health first aid skills

  • Develop a self-care plan to maintain good mental health.

Course component 2 must be completed within 3-months of completing component 1 (eLearning).

This course is based on guidelines developed through the expert consensus of people with lived experience of mental health problems and professionals.