Course Objective

Mental Health & Wellbeing course will serve as an early intervention public education program. It will teach adults how to recognize the signs and symptoms that suggest a potential mental health challenge, how to listen nonjudgmentally and give reassurance to a person who may be experiencing a mental health challenge, and how to refer a person to appropriate professional support and services.

Learning Outcomes

1. Recognize the potential risk factors and warning signs for a range of mental health problems, including depression, anxiety/trauma, psychosis and psychotic disorders, substance use disorders, and self-injury.
2. Address Youth Mental Health First Aid challenges common among adolescents, including: depression, anxiety, psychosis, eating disorders, AD/HD, disruptive behavioral disorders, and substance use disorders.
3. Use a 5-step action plan to help an individual in crisis connect with appropriate professional help.
4. Interpret the prevalence of various mental health disorders in Pakistan. and the need for reduced negative attitudes in their communities.
5. Apply knowledge of the appropriate professional, peer, social, and self-help resources available to help someone with a mental health problem treat and manage the problem and achieve recovery.
6. Assess their own views and feelings about mental health problems and disorders.