An Introduction To Mental Health And Wellbeing

What is Mental Health?

What is Mental Ill Health

The difference between normal mental responses, and when a person needs help

Signs that mental health and wellbeing is deteriorating

Lifestyle choices that can affect mental health and mental wellbeing

How to take care of your own mental health and mental wellbeing

Coping strategies

How to support other people with their mental health and wellbeing

Knowing how to take care of one's own mental health and mental wellbeing, while helping other people with theirs

Sources of mental health and wellbeing support

37% of all work-related ill-health is due to mental health problems

Problems with mental health cover 45% of all working days lost

A whopping 12.8 million working days, or 49, 042 years, were lost due to mental health problems in 2018/19

602,000 workers suffered from work-related stress, depression or anxiety in 2018/19

One in four people will have a mental health problem at some point during their lives

Whether work is causing or aggravating mental health problems, employers have a legal responsibility towards their employees

Work-related mental health issues must to be assessed to measure the levels of risk to staff

Where a risk is identified, steps must be taken to remove it or reduce it as far as reasonably practicable

This one day course gives people a good awareness of mental health and mental wellbeing, how to take care of yours and how to help others take care of their mental health and wellbeing