ABOUT THE COURSE
DEVELOP A CAREER IN ADULT MENTAL HEALTH
Once someone has studied psychology, behaviour and mental processes. The next natural step in learning is to understand the approaches to managing mental 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 to help themselves. This may mean finding ways to alleviate severe symptoms which the individual has little or no control over, then educating the sufferer to employ practical techniques and strategies to help control symptoms.
THIS COURSE IS IDEAL FOR YOU IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO:
- 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 the workplace.
- Enhance empathy towards family and friends and develop strategies for coping.
- Maintain your own mental health state.
STUDY DURATION:
In this course, you can learn at your own pace, without any fixed due dates or deadlines. You study whenever you have the time and feel motivated to do so. The course typically takes around 200 hours to complete from beginning to end, and most students graduate within 12 months.
STUDY METHOD：
100% Online
START DATE:
Intake is open now.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
This certificate opens up the gateway for you to seek employment in various businesses, some career outcomes may require further training and /or qualifications.
- Life Coaching
- Marketing
- Human Resource Management
- Education
- Social Welfare
- Leisure Services
- Counselling
- Industrial Relations
- Mental Health Support Worker
- Working with Homeless
- Social Work
CORE MODULES
1. Managing Mental Health in Adults
- Introduction to mental health issues – Definitions of good mental health through understanding mental illness, causal factors, introduction to treatment options
- Depression and related conditions - bipolar disorder
- Anxiety and related conditions - phobias, OCD, PTSD
- Schizophrenia
- Antisocial personality disorders
- Eating disorders - anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, obesity
- Dementias
- Helping yourself with mental health issues
- Support options and services for mental health issues
2. Abnormal Psychology
- Disorders Usually First Diagnosed in Infancy, Childhood, or Adolescence
- Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic & Other Cognitive Disorders
- Substance-Related Disorders
- Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
- Mood Disorders
- Anxiety Disorders
- Somatoform, Factitious, and Dissociative Disorders
- Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders
- Eating & Sleep Disorders
- Impulse-control Disorders; Adjustment Disorder
- Personality Disorders
ABOUT US
Courses4me
Courses4me is the leader in online education with decades of experience in both public and private education.
Our founders have a combined 30 years of expertise in education and training and have joined forces to deliver high-quality, low-cost education to anyone wishing to advance their career.
IS COURSES4ME ACCREDITED?
Yes. All of our courses are endorsed by the IARC (www.iarcedu.com) and accredited by ICOES (www.icoes.org). ICOES has an independent board of management that ensures that the Foundation operates in accordance with its purpose. It has an Advisory Board consisting of independent professors who developed and implemented the Accreditation Standards, a quality charter that is used for the annual review of prospective and existing accredited course providers.
