Mental Health First Aid Course
What will I learn?
Enhance your geriatric care skills with our Mental Health First Aid Course, designed to empower professionals with essential strategies for engaging older individuals. Learn to identify signs of depression and anxiety, master effective communication techniques, and build trust through empathy and compassion. Improve your practice with reflective learning, observation, and record-keeping skills. This concise, high-quality course equips you to support mental well-being in older people, ensuring compassionate and informed care.
Apoia's Differentials
Develop skills
Strengthen the development of the practical skills listed below
Start conversations: Master initiating meaningful dialogues with older patients.
Recognise depression signs: Identify key symptoms of depression in older adults.
Build trust: Develop strong, trusting relationships with older individuals.
Document effectively: Learn precise record-keeping of behavioural patterns.
Encourage social interaction: Foster engaging social activities for mental well-being.
Suggested summary
Workload: between 4 and 360 hours
Before starting, you can adjust the chapters and the workload.
- Choose which chapter to start with
- Add or remove chapters
- Increase or decrease the course workload
Examples of chapters you can add
You will be able to generate more chapters like the examples below
This is a free course, focused on personal and professional development. It is not equivalent to a technical, undergraduate, or postgraduate course, but offers practical and relevant knowledge for your professional journey.