Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Training (MHSP)

The Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Training (MHSP) is an online training course that provides evidence-based information for professionals and carers supporting people with Mental Health Concerns. 

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The course is professionally developed and provides in-depth theoretical knowledge from the comfort of your home. 

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Upon completion, you will receive a professional development certificate to claim professional development points with ACA.

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Knowledge Evidence

The course was designed from an empowerment-based and recovery-orientated perspective in mind. 

Principles and practices of suicide intervention, including:

• assessment
• suicide safety
• facilitating emergency interventions
• identifying safe actions to implement safety plans
• facilitation of ongoing support
• Referral options and procedures for accessing services
• Strategies for facilitating emergency interventions
• Personal values, beliefs and attitudes that facilitate or impede suicide intervention:
• assumptions about who may be at risk
• common notions about suicide
• assumptions about what might keep someone safe or unsafe

Consideration of how the presence of mental health concerns might influence the helper’s intervention role and inform referral options

Principles and practices of self-care and supervision

Legal and ethical considerations and how these are applied in an organisation and individual practice, including:

• duty of care
• privacy, confidentiality and disclosure
• work role boundaries – responsibilities and limitations