Understanding Mental Illness

This module is designed to build your understanding of the concept of mental health, examine your own perceptions of mental health and mental illness, and build your empathy by engaging with real life examples and case studies of people living with mental illness.

Module inclusions:

• The factors that contribute to a person’s mental health including emotional, psychological, and social 
• Mental health as a continuum that fluctuates during people’s lives, incorporating different states of well-being including healthy, unsettled, struggling, crisis, healing, healthy
• The causes of mental illness and how mental illness is experienced differently
• Stigmas and misconceptions that people living with mental illness face in their daily lives
• Supporting people who are struggling or in crisis with a mental illness.

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Information presented in this e-Learning module has been curated through research undertaken by subject matter experts, people with lived experience and industry professionals.