Caring for a Person With Mental Illness

This interactive course teaches participants about the common mental illnesses, how living with these illnesses impacts on a person’s functioning and the types of support and intervention that carers can provide to assist with this. Carers learn about the continuum of mental health and how to care for their own mental health and wellbeing.

Topics covered:

• the common mental illnesses of Anxiety, Depression and Psychosis
• the functional impact of living with one of these disorders
• the role and impact on the carer of supportng someone with mental illness
• develop strategies to care for the carer – looking after yourself when you have a caring role

This course is relevant for services that provide in-home or facility based support to people living with mental illness, as well as family members who provide care and other carers.

To discuss how this program can be customised for your group, contact us.

Product Packages

This is a 1 day course suitable for up to 18 participants. It can be delivered as one full day, two half days or as 4 modules of 1.5 hours each.

We have a number of package options for our courses, to enable us to give you the level of ongoing support that you may require.

Find out more here.

Wellbeing Consults

After attending one of our courses, participants often seek more in-depth discussion about their mental health and wellbeing. These consults can be purchased as a one-off session, as a series of sessions (i.e. a block of 3 sessions) or as part of our ongoing Executive Wellbeing programs.

Find out more about the Wellbeing Consults here.

Find out more about our Executive Wellbeing programs here.

Want a course customised specifically for your group?

We are able to develop a program for your group’s next function, whether it is an intimate lunch and learn or your national conference.

To book this program, find out more about it, or discuss how this program can be customised for your group, contact us.