Courses
Impact provides a number of courses dealing with a wide range of issues within the spectrum of mental health:
Impact provides a number of courses dealing with a wide range of issues within the spectrum of mental health:
Resources
In addition to supporting Impact courses dangerousbehaviour.com provides and open resource on a wide range of issues within the field of mental health. See below for articles on:
In addition to supporting Impact courses dangerousbehaviour.com provides and open resource on a wide range of issues within the field of mental health. See below for articles on:
Introduction to Mental Health
The one-day course includes:
Everything on the one-day course, plus
”Experiencing Mental Health Problems” is ideal for whole teams and organisations, including volunteers and service users, and can be delivered to groups of between 9 and 36 participants.
Consultant: Dr Iain Bourne
This unique course looks at how people who are affected by mental health problems experience their world, and how those about them can help. The training unfolds through a series of true stories that are narrated and dramatised before the group. This helps bring the material to life, and allows participants to consider the experience of a variety of mental health problems both from their own perspective, and that of the service user.
This approach provides a stark contrast to the psychiatric emphasis on disorder, and emphasises the experience of the whole person, whilst providing a fascinating journey through the perplexing world of mental health.
Target Group
No prior training in mental health is assumed, although it is helpful if participants work in similar backgrounds. The course will be adapted to reflect the experience, work roles and settings of the participants.Aim
This is a practice-based course aimed at helping participants to work more effectively and appropriately with people who experience a range of serious mental health problems.Content
- Psychiatric classification of disorders.
- Making use of community mental health resources.
- Understanding and responding to people with specific mental illnesses:
- Schizophrenia – including working with hallucinations and delusions.
Depression – including identifying, and responding to potential suicide and self-harm.
Anxiety States – including responding to panic attacks.
Dementia – including assisting people with memory loss and other neuropsychological losses. - Identifying indicators of impending relapse, and involving the mental health services.
The one-day course includes:
- Troubled Worlds D’s Story, and making sense of people’s distress
- The Depths of Despair
V’s Story, and living with depression - Connecting Up
J’s Story, and living with schizophrenia
Everything on the one-day course, plus
- The Telling of Terror
H’s Story and experiencing trauma - On Edge
L’s Story, and a life of anxiety - The Outsider
M’s Story and the question of a disordered personality - Losing Out
T’s Story and living with dementia
”Experiencing Mental Health Problems” is ideal for whole teams and organisations, including volunteers and service users, and can be delivered to groups of between 9 and 36 participants.
Consultant: Dr Iain Bourne
Impact Training & Consultation
Fax & Phone: +44 (0)1275 394 774
E-mail: impact@dangerousbehaviour.com
Web Site: http://www.dangerousbehaviour.com
design by Oliver Bourne
Fax & Phone: +44 (0)1275 394 774
E-mail: impact@dangerousbehaviour.com
Web Site: http://www.dangerousbehaviour.com
design by Oliver Bourne