Introduction to Mental Health

On-Line Learning

LAMPdirect (www.lampdirect.org.uk)

Direct Health (www.dh.gov.uk)

Alzheimer's Society (www.alzheimers.org.uk)

NIMHE (http://nimhe.ichameleon.com/)

Centre for Mental Health (www.scmh.org.uk)

Mind (www.mind.org.uk)

The Social Care Institute for Excellence’s (www.scie.org.uk)

Rethink (www.rethink.org)

Learning Outcomes: (what you could expect to achieve)

Information about local services

National policy

Research findings

Information on a range of mental disorders

Treatments and interventions

Law

Service user and carer perspectives

Learning Materials

• Mental Health Matters, ed. Heller et.al.

• At the core of Mental Health, ed. Bailey, D.

• Cultural diversity, Mental Health and Psychiatry: The Struggle Against Racism, Fernando, S.

• Taking over the Asylum, Barnes and Bowl.

• Key Concepts in Mental Health, Pilgrim, D.

Learning Outcomes:  (what you could expect to achieve)

Introductions to a wide range of issues pertinent to disordered minds

Research outcomes

Models of mental health / distress

Treatments and interventions

Service user and carer perspectives

Training Event

This course is currently not running, but if there is sufficient demand, it may be commissioned.

To register your interest, please add your name on the waiting list using MyView (non-scheduled request).  

Learning Outcomes: (what you could expect to achieve)

To highlight the major psychiatric disorders, their symptoms and consequences.

To examine the more popular medical treatments for the above.

To give a brief outline of the law.

To examine how the mental health services are structured and how to access them.

To explore models of mental health e.g. medical model, social model.

To explore aspects of discrimination within the mental health system.

Contact

Lead Officer:                                    

Zara Mangan      

Tel. No: 0116 2211700 (39 1700)

E-Mail: Zara.Mangan@leicester.gov.uk