Duration
1 day
Location
In-house
Availability
Good
Suitable for: All What does this mean?
This course will introduce you to mental health, learning disabilities and neurodiversity, including key definitions and discussions.
People with a learning disability can be more likely to experience poor mental health. A learning disability is to do with the way someone’s brain works. It makes it harder for someone to learn, understand or do things and is often confused with mental health problems.
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Course aim
To provide staff with a detailed understanding of mental illness, learning disabilities and neurodiversity and understand how to better understand and work with customers affected.
Course objectives
- To discuss the similarities and differences between mental illness, learning disability and neurodiversity
- To explore the concept of mental health via the continuum model and understand the difference between good / poor mental health and mental illness
- Explore common mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, psychosis, bi-polar and personality disorders
- To explore and understand different types of learning disability
- To explore and understand neurodiversity including autism spectrum and other conditions such as ADHD
- Understand examples and be able to make reasonable adjustments to customers who may be affected based on the equalities act 2010
- Be given strategies, tools, and techniques in order to be able to work more effectively with customers affected by the conditions discussed.
Who should attend?
All staff who work with customers or residents.
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Our speakers
Danny McGowan BSC, MSC has been involved in supporting people with substance misuse, mental health and other complex needs for over 20 years. He has developed experience in many specialist areas, such as working with hoarders and those with a dual diagnosis and has delivered training in techniques such as motivational interviewing and CBT. He has been delivering training for the housing sector for over a decade and has many years’ experience of developing client/customer involvement and peer mentoring schemes.
Danny uses a combination of his years of experience, current good practice guidelines and research evidence to deliver the topics he trains. He uses a holistic interactive training style that provides delegates with real skills and information, which they are then able to apply back in the workplace and beyond. He has delivered training and provided consultancy to numerous organisations during his career. Notable clients include the Department of Health, Department of Work and Pensions and the Home Office as well as housing organisations across the UK.
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