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Mental Health First Aid Course

What will I learn?

Improve your skills for looking after elders with our Mental Health First Aid Training. This training will give you the important ways to help our old people. You will learn how to know when an old person is feeling low (depression) or worried too much (anxiety). You will learn how to talk to them in a good way and how to make them trust you by showing them you care and understand. You will also learn how to watch them carefully, think about what you see, and write it down properly. This short but important training will help you to support our elders' minds so they can be well and you can look after them with kindness and knowledge.

Apoia's Unique Features

Online courses available for life
Certificate aligned with educational standards
Printable PDF summaries
24/7 online support
Select and arrange the chapters you want to study
Set your own course schedule
Instant feedback on practical activities
Study at your convenience, no internet needed

Develop skills

Enhance the practical skills listed below

Start talking well: Learn how to start good conversations with our elders.

Know signs of feeling low: Understand the main signs of when our old people are feeling down (depression).

Make trust strong: Build strong trust with our elders.

Write things down clearly: Learn how to write down what you see and how our elders are acting in a clear and correct way.

Help people be together: Encourage our elders to join activities and be with others so their minds can be healthy.

Suggested summary

Workload: between 4 and 360 hours

Before beginning, feel free to change 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 akin to a technical, undergraduate, or postgraduate course, but offers practical and relevant knowledge for your professional journey.