The Significance of First Aid in Mental Health
Mental Health First Aid is a course that teaches you how to identify, understand, and respond to the signs of mental illness and substance use disorders. But do you know what to do if someone around you is having a panic attack or is contemplating suicide? This is what mental health first aid is for. Just as CPR teaches you how to help someone who is having a heart attack, First Aid in Mental Health teaches you how to help someone who is having a mental health or addiction crisis. There is strong evidence that mental health first aid (MHFA) training improves knowledge about how to support people developing a mental health problem, but little evidence that this support improves the mental health of the recipient of this aid. Mental Health First Aid Training has been identified as one of the key strategies to reduce the impact of mental health issues on productivity, and many workplaces are using MHFA training as the basis of their mental health strategy. Mental health pro...