Mental Health Promotion for People with Learning Disabilities

Description

Explore our professional training pack on Mental Health Promotion, designed for learning disability professionals to empower adults in enhancing their mental well-being. This is also a interactive course aimed to help people with learning disabilities improve their mental health by raising awareness of mental health problems and developing personal strategies to improve or maintain their mental health. The 12-session course is designed to be run with adults who are able to express their wants and needs and who need minimal support with daily living tasks.

Key features: Based on work with The Tuesday Group who have spoken and published articles about their work in this field; a wealth of mental health promotion materials, including video role plays; structured into 2 ½ hour interactive sessions.

Contents include 12 sessions on:

• Emotions
• Mental health
• Staying well
• Mental health problems
• Depression and anxiety
• What happens if someone has a mental health problem
• Helping people to get better
• Serious mental health problems
• My mental health plan