Mental Health Awareness for Employees
Interactive

Mental Health Awareness for Employees

The Mental Health Project
Updated Aug 02, 2019

Course Overview

This interactive and engaging course is designed to improve employees' awareness of mental health conditions in the workplace. This course will assist your employees to increase their knowledge, skills, and tools to recognise mental health conditions, and understand their role and responsibilities with respect to mental health at work to help create a happier and mentally healthy workplace. Length 30-40 minutes. Please note there is a different course available for managers and leaders.

Target Audience

Employees and teams members at all levels within any industry and any organisation globally.

Learning Objectives

The purpose of this course is to provide employees at all levels with the knowledge, skills, and tools to recognise mental health conditions, and understand their role and responsibilities with respect to mental health conditions. The course content includes information for employees to:

  • Improve their mental health condition literacy
  • Encourage helpful attitudes and behaviours towards colleagues with a mental health condition
  • Know how to recognise the signs and symptoms of the most common mental health conditions
  • Understand their responsibilities in relation to mental health conditions

A more comprehensive mental health awareness course is available for managers and leaders.

Business Outcomes

This evidence-based mental health training course provides organisations with a high quality and time efficient option to train staff locally, nationally and globally in mental health in the workplace and has been specifically designed to help your business:

  • meet its legal and moral health and safety obligations for providing a psychologically safe workplace
  • improve awareness of mental health conditions in the workplace across all employees
  • reduce the stigma associated with mental health in your workplace by encouraging helpful attitudes and behaviours towards colleagues with a mental health condition
  • create a happier and mentally healthier workplace

A more comprehensive mental health awareness course is available for managers and leaders.