- Please note this course does NOT qualify for VET FEE-Help or any other government funding. Flexible payment options available
Course Overview
Understand more about common mental health conditions and how to manage these conditions.
This course helps you to understand the signs, symptoms and possible treatments of adult mental health problems.
For the sufferer, managing mental health is far easier if they can accept their health status and have constructive views about addressing their problems. In other words, they are willing and open to helping themselves. This is often where there are challenges for the professionals who work in mental health.
Mental health professionals should attempt to help a sufferer help themselves. This may mean finding ways to alleviate severe symptoms that the individual has little or no control over, and then educating the sufferer to employ practical techniques and strategies to help control symptoms.
Job Outcomes
Potential career outcomes could include:
- Life Coaching
- Human Resource Management
- Education
- Social Welfare
- Leisure Services
- Counselling
- Industrial Relations
What You'll Learn
- Understand the human mind in greater depth
- Recognise signs and symptoms of mental ill health
- Appreciate the scope of mental health services
- Cultivate skills for dealing with people in specific situations or undergoing particular therapies
- Consider intervention strategies and long-term care of mental health
- Enhance your communication skills in this often sensitive subject area
- Work confidently with individuals in crisis
- Deal efficiently with mental health in workplace
- Enhance empathy towards family and friends and develop strategies for coping
- Maintain your own mental health state
Study Method
- OnlineOnline delivery - online course content with the exception of assessments and work placement
- BlendedBlended delivery - both online course content and partial face to face requirements
- In-classIn class delivery - predominately face to face course content conducted at a specific location
- VirtualVirtual Delivery - Live and interactive classroom-style learning conducted completely online
Duration Study Load
- Approx 100 hours
Delivery
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100% online with unlimited tutor support from experienced professionals via phone and email
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Ask questions anytime and your tutors will respond during business hours
Subjects
About The Career Academy
The Career Academy is a leading Australian training provider of non-accredited online courses. Their education driven team are committed to providing exceptional online courses and personal tutor support. The Career Academy offers a range of specialist courses to improve job performance, and their focus is on mentoring, inspiring and supporting people through training so their career or business can reap the rewards. The Career Academy’s course delivery is flexible, so their students can study with minimal disruption to their daily life. They offer flexible payment plans so anyone wanting to learn has the opportunity no matter their circumstances. Many of their tutors are qualified Chartered Accountants and hold a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment.
