>> Products & Services: Mental Health for Managers

Category: Cognitive

Aim: This course provides an overview of workplace mental health issues. Workplace stress is emerging as a major cause of physical and mental health problems. One in five Australian adults experience some form of mental illness each year. Understanding the causes and effects of workplace stress and mental illness provides a platform to produce an environment that counters these challenges. Participants are introduced to a methodology to develop a resilient organisation and also skills to promote a healthy workplace environment.

Audience: Middle level managers responsible for the environment and workplace of their staff.

Outcomes:

• Understand different attitudes to mental illness
• Understand the effects of stigma and discrimination towards others
• Identify the signs and symptoms of prevalent mental health problems
• Gain awareness of the causes of mental illness
• Understand the impact of stress within the workplace
• Identify the relationship of stress to mental health problems
• Develop skills to reduce stress within the workplace
• Gain awareness of RESPECTFUL methodology for developing resilience

Duration:1 day