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Mental Health Awareness training for hard-to-reach young people

Mental Health Awareness training for hard-to-reach young people. James Walbank Plymouth Community Healthcare CIC PMHW Conference 2011.

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Mental Health Awareness training for hard-to-reach young people

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  1. Mental Health Awareness training for hard-to-reach young people James Walbank Plymouth Community Healthcare CIC PMHW Conference 2011

  2. For PMHWs to feel enthused about delivering this kind of training, having gained skills and shared experience and ideas with colleagues. Attendants to this session will be provided with practical, as well as theoretical, resources.

  3. Engagement of young people (11+?), multi-agency involvement, building capacity so that different agencies can deliver training. New skills for workers and young people

  4. Broadening vocabulary: for PMHWs, for young people, for workers from different agencies. Involve workers from hosting agency in planning and delivery of session. They know the YP better, so they know how to react to disruption.

  5. Exercise: scaling questions

  6. Exercise: writing poems

  7. Exercise: Physical and mental heath

  8. What can you expect as a reaction – 10 minutes Complete participation? Why? Similar participation from all young people and workers? Why?

  9. How do we show success? What is our audit tool? Likeart scale, marks on concentric circles.

  10. Ideas from other PMHWs

  11. Appendix of exercises Exercise: scaling questions – 10 minutes Draw an imaginary line on the floor. One end represents a time when you have been sad (not your worst), the other represents your happiest time. Ask people to place themselves somewhere on the line after you ask 4-5 questions about different times in their lives. Examples: first day of primary/secondary school; your favourite holiday; your last birthday/Christmas; this morning; at home; at school; around where you live. Aim of exercise To consider how different people feel in different situations. Emotional well-being is hard to predict. You can’t know when someone will find something scary, exciting or whether it will make them feel happy or sad.

  12. Exercise: writing poems – 15 minutes 5 liners. Options: each person writes poem separately or group writes it together, writing a line each, voluntarily. Don’t This poem describes assumptions. 4 lines of ‘don’t’ then a positive redeeming line. Example: Don’t think that I can’t see any of my mistakes, Don’t think that I am safe but in a dull way, Don’t think that I only take the safe way, Don’t think that I never took a risk, I fell out of a plane once.

  13. I am This poem shows what is important to you. Each line describes a place or object that is important to you. Example:  I am hot crumpets and honey and a cup of tea, I am a crackling fire, I am the sound of the waves and the sea, I am a duvet when I’m tired, I am a kiss from my children. Aim of exercise To consider what represents you best.

  14. Exercise: Physical and mental heath – 15 minutes Use flipchart and pens. Divide into 4 squares: one column showing physical health, the other showing mental health. 4 squares show positive and negative words relating to physical and mental health. Aim of exercise To illustrate how physical and mental health relate to each other and how hard it is to do so.

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