Mental Health and Dementia Awareness

About this course

Covers Care Certificate Standard 9: the needs and experiences of people living with mental health conditions or dementia, promoting positive health and wellbeing, reasonable adjustments and reporting unmet needs, early detection and signposting, and the legal frameworks — human rights, equality law and the Mental Health Act — that shape day-to-day care. Five modules, eighteen lessons, around two hours, finishing with an assessment and a SupportiveBridge certificate.

What you'll learn

• By the end of this module, you will understand the needs and experiences of people with mental health conditions or dementia, including what the terms mean, the common conditions you're likely to meet, and why the causes and support needs behind them are not the same.
• By the end of this module, you will understand the importance of promoting positive health and wellbeing for an individual who may have a mental health condition or dementia, including how attitudes shape care and what the social model of disability means in practice.
• By the end of this module, you will understand the reasonable adjustments which may be necessary in care delivery for someone with a mental health condition or dementia, and how to report concerns about unmet needs through agreed ways of working.
• By the end of this module, you will understand the importance of early detection of mental health conditions or dementia, recognise early indicators of each, know how care and support may need to adjust when a condition is identified or declines, and be able to signpost individuals and their families to appropriate support.
• By the end of this module, you will understand the legal frameworks, policy and guidelines relating to mental health conditions or dementia, and how they affect the day-to-day experiences of individuals and their families.

Curriculum

Assessment & certificate