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Mental Health First Aid is a course that teaches you how to identify, understand, and respond to the signs of mental illness and substance use disorders.
The training gives you the skills you need to reach out and provide initial help and support to people who may be developing a mental health or addiction problem or going through a crisis or panic.
Mental health first aiders are Teachers or veterans who can be your neighbors, relatives, and friends. They are people who are recovering and those who support loved ones.
A person who applies First Aid in Mental Health is anyone who wants to make their community healthier, happier, and safer for everyone.
The prevalence of mental illness With Statistics
It is thought that around 1 in 4 people will experience a mental health problem each year in the UK. The numbers have increased in recent years. For example, the number of people with common mental illnesses increased by 20% between 1993 and 2014.
A person’s diagnosis can also change many times during their lifetime. Suicide and self-harm are also on the rise — although the significant increase since 2018 in UK statistics is partly due to changes in the way deaths are reported, which means that more deaths are now officially recorded as suicides than in the past.
Mental health problems harm many areas of society. Having a diagnosable mental health problem can affect all aspects of life such as school, work, personal relationships, ability to participate in the community.
The negative impact on work productivity is huge — in the UK, for example, 15.8 million days were considered absent due to mental illness in 2016 (Office for National Statistics 2017).
Mental health first aid importance
Most of us would know how to help if we saw someone having a heart attack — we would start to call an emergency or ambulance service.
But few of us know how to react if we see someone having a panic attack or if we fear that a friend or colleague may be showing signs of alcoholism.
Mental Health First Aid eliminates fear and hesitation about beginning a conversation about mental health issues and substance use. It does so by increasing understanding and providing a guiding action plan for people to identify and deal with mental illness or substance use disorders safely and responsibly.
As more people are equipped with the tools they need to start a conversation, more people can get the help they need. A mental health first aid provider is an important link between someone struggling with a mental health or addiction problem and the appropriate support. You can hear from mental health first-aiders in your community about how they’ve used their training to make a difference.
What do We offer?
At TNA Training & Safety Consultants in Stoke-on-Trent, UK, we can provide you with exceptional First Aid Mental Health training. We also have expert trainers in providing online courses for Manual Handling, Fire Warden Training, Driver Awareness, Fire Safety Packages, Risk Assessment Training, & more.