Mental Health First Aid

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Mental Health
First Aid

Description of Course:
Just as CPR helps you to assist an individual having a heart attack — even if you have no clinical training — Mental Health First Aid helps you to assist someone experiencing a mental health-related crisis. In the Mental Health First Aid Course, you will learn risk factors and warning signs for mental health and addiction concerns, strategies for how to help someone in both crisis and non-crisis situations, and where to turn for help. You will learn how to apply the Mental Health First Aid action plan in a variety of situations, including when someone is experiencing:

Panic attacks
Suicidal thoughts or behavior
Non-suicidal self-injury
Acute psychosis (e.g., hallucination or delusions)
Overdose or withdrawal from alcohol or drug use
Reaction to a traumatic event

Mental Health Overview

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Mental Health Overview

Duration: Variable, with a minimum of 1.0 hour

Description of Course:
Customized workshop designed to meet the needs of participants. Sample topics:

Course Objectives:

Anger Management
Motivational Interviewing
Personality Disorders
PTSD
Verbal De-escalation
Wellness

Mindfulness

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Mindfulness

Duration: Variable, with a minimum of 1.0 hour

Description of Course:
In this interactive workshop, an overview of mindfulness and its positive effects will be provided along with instruction and practice of a variety of easy and accessible mindfulness-based stress-reduction techniques.

Course Objectives:

Describe mindfulness.
Understand the positive effects of mindfulness.
Utilize and/or explain one or more simple mindfulness-based stress-reduction practices for purposes of self-care and/or helping others to experience such practices.

Compassion Fatigue

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Compassion Fatigue

Duration: Variable, with a minimum of 1.0 hour

Description of Course:
Participants explore the features, symptoms, and risk factors of compassion fatigue, along with self-awareness exercises and self-care strategies as key components for prevention.

Course Objectives:

Define compassion fatigue.
Understand the difference between compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue.
Understand the difference between burnout and secondary trauma as features of compassion fatigue.
Identify symptoms and risk factors of compassion fatigue.
Utilize various self-awareness exercises to identify one’s risk of developing compassion fatigue.
Identify and understand how to apply the ABC’s of preventing compassion fatigue (awareness, balance, connections) and key components of self-care (physical, psychological, behavioral).

Stress Management

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Stress Management

Duration: Variable, with a minimum of 1.0 hour

Description of Course:
In this interactive workshop, participants explore the nature, symptoms and effects of stress, along with various approaches to managing stress.

Course Objectives:

Understand the nature of stress along with the concepts of “good stress” vs. “bad stress.”
Understand the connection between how stress is triggered and natural responses to stress.
Explore one’s current accumulation of life stressors and their potential impact on stress-induced health problems.
Understand common physical, emotional, behavioral and cognitive symptoms of stress.
Understand the long-term effects of stress.
Explore various stress management techniques and how they relate to the fight, flight and frozen responses to stress.

Hearing Voices

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Hearing Voices

Duration: Variable, 1.0 to 3.0 hours

Description of Course:
An experiential workshop that provides a unique opportunity for participants to learn about auditory hallucinations, through a simulation in which they hear voices while progressing through simple daily experiences. The workshop also provides an overview of mental and medical illnesses that cause hallucinations, with specific emphasis given to schizophrenia, as it is currently considered the mental illness in which hearing voices is most prevalent.

Course Objectives:

Develop a better understanding of voice hearers.
Identify medical conditions associated with hearing voices.
Identify mental illnesses associated with hearing voices.
Dispel myths about schizophrenia.
Understand current research and diagnostic criteria related to schizophrenia.
Identify the signs and symptoms of schizophrenia

Emotional Regulation

For training details, recommendations, or to request a training, contact Gia Washington at gwashington@sertomastar.org or 708-748-1951 X418

Mapping and Managing Grief

For training details, recommendations, or to request a training, contact Gia Washington at gwashington@sertomastar.org or 708-748-1951 X418