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Themes covered in the Training Program
The training for each PCP area and target group was individually negotiated and specific training themes were packaged into training modules that were tailored to suit the target group to be trained. A brief training needs analysis was provided to key players. The general themes covered in the training program is described below.
Mental health, community, services and models
- The mental health service system – overview (and local services?)
- Changing contexts and approaches to working with people with mental illness
- Impact on your own work and workplace
- Holistic and consumer-centred approaches
- Diversity – community, culture and its impact
- Impact of Stigma and myths about mental illness
- Models of mental illness
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Depression
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Anxiety Disorders
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- Depression and its impact in Australia
- Commonality and Unmet need
- Common types of depression
- Help seeking behaviours
- Myths about depression
- Difference between depression, sadness and grief
- Causes of depression
- Symptoms of depression
- Risk, Protective, Stress and Vulnerability Factors
- Recognising early warning signs and identifying triggers
- Symptoms versus disability, why it is important to your work to understand the difference
- Treatments and interventions that work
- Practical things you can do - the types of support you can provide when the client.
- Preventing relapse and your role
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- The causes of anxiety
- How is it different from the anxiety that most people experience?
- The impact of stress
- General symptoms of anxiety
- Types of anxiety disorders
- The debilitating effect of anxiety disorders
- Recognising early warning signs and identifying triggers
- Treatments and interventions that work
- Practical things you can do: types of support you can provide when.
- Preventing relapse and your role
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- Medical and psychosocial interventions – what’s the difference
- Medications and how they work
- Early intervention – what is it
- Knowing when to intervene and when to refer
- Using screening tools; the difference between screening and assessment
- Psychosocial approaches – how to work to strengthen protective factors and diminish risk factors
- Helping to build connectedness and resilience
- Supporting a person to seek treatment
- Non-judgemental support and active listening
- Working with families and friends
- Dealing with anger and distress
- Suicide risk with depression and with anxiety
- What to do when someone says they want to suicide or harm themselves
- What not to do
- Understanding your role
- Getting help
- Watching for signs of relapse
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Pathways to Care
- Understanding the language of mental health and mental illness
- Seeking advice from other professionals
- Duty of Care and confidentiality
- Language - How to frame the person’s needs and your observations into a language that will lead to a beneficial outcome for the person
- Referral and referral issues - Making a good referral
- internally (to another service in your own organisation)
- externally (to GPs, mental health services and other mental health practitioners
- Identifying the best service/option
- Follow-up, accountability and your role
- What mental health services in your area do and how to use them
- Harnessing local expertise for professional support for yourself and your agency
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Our community, our neighbour….our responsibility
- Where your sector is placed
- Identifying the strengths of your sector
- Building on the strengths
- Working with particular population groups with depression and anxiety
- How your sector/organisation works with particular groups
- Overview of intervention strategies for depression and anxiety in men, women, young people, older people
- What is mental health promotion
- The importance of attitudes and attitude change on the help-seeking behaviours of people with depression and anxiety
- Your organisation’s role in promoting good mental health
- Contributing to a suicide prevention focus in your workplace/ community
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