{"id":1028,"date":"2023-03-08T15:08:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T04:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-news\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2023-03-08T15:11:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T04:41:01","slug":"free-accredited-training-for-flinders-students-mental-health-first-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-news\/2023\/03\/08\/free-accredited-training-for-flinders-students-mental-health-first-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"FREE Accredited Training for Flinders Students &#8211; MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1029 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2023\/03\/Blog-mental-helath.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"145\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Course Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">One in five Australian adults experiences a mental health problem. Mental Health First Aid is the initial help and support provided to a person experiencing a mental health issue or in a mental health crisis, until the appropriate professional help is received, or the crisis resolves. This 2-day practical and accredited educational course equips you with\u00a0the skills to understand mental health issues and help others, using a proven, evidence-based Action Plan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It <strong><u>does not<\/u><\/strong> teach you to be a counsellor.<\/p>\n<p>Over the 2 days, participants will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn how to recognise common mental health problems<\/li>\n<li>Improve knowledge of mental illnesses, their treatments and appropriate first aid actions<\/li>\n<li>Increase confidence to provide first aid<\/li>\n<li>Learn where and how to seek appropriate professional help<\/li>\n<li>Know how to respond in a crisis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Please note:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Places are extremely limited,\u00a0<strong><u>DO NOT <\/u>register unless you can attend<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Only Flinders Uni students can enrol.<\/li>\n<li>If you have any concerns about your capacity to fully participate in this course, please contact the provider.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>** If you have any concerns about your own mental health,\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/students.flinders.edu.au\/support\/hcd\/counselling\"><strong>please contact Health Counselling and Disability Service\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><strong>or your own mental health practitioner **<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/mental-health-first-aid-training-tickets-568754930307\">Click here to enrol.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Any questions or concerns contact:\u00a0 <a href=\"mailto:mhfa@flinders.edu.au\">mhfa@flinders.edu.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Course Overview One in five Australian adults experiences a mental health problem. Mental Health First Aid is the initial help and support provided to a person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1025,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1025"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}