Mental Health
Professional Development
By successfully completing this course, you could:
- Gain skills and knowledge in Mental Health to expand an existing practice, as a foundation qualification towards further studies, or for personal interest
- Be awarded the BSY Professional Certificate of Merit
You can study this course from the comfort of your own home; in your own time and at your own pace; with helpful support and encouragement from our friendly tutors.
No matter how resourceful a person might be in coping with problems, life inevitably involves stress. We all develop characteristic ways of responding to these situations and the course examines these responses to frustration. It also explores concepts such as abnormality, self-knowledge and voluntary control, neuroses, psychoses and personality disorders.
Syllabus
- Lesson One
- Introduction
- Frustration and Stress
- Conflict
- Approach-Avoidance
- Consequences
- Lesson Two
- Responses to Frustration
- Anxiety
- Defence Mechanisms
- Lesson Three
- Stress
- Coping With Stress
- Change
- Stress and Illness
- We All Get Stressed
- Lesson Four
- Abnormality/ Classification
- Defining Criteria
- What is Normality?
- Neuroses
- Lesson Five
- Classification (Continued)/ Subsections
- Psychoses
- Personality Disorders
- Subsections
- Neuroses
- Lesson Six
- Subsections (Continued)
- Neuroses
- Understanding Neurotic Reactions
- Lesson Seven – Subsections (Continued)
- Psychoses
- Personality Disorders
- Lesson Eight
- Subsections (Continued)/Alcoholism and Drug Dependence/ Treatment Methods
- Personality Disorders
- Alcoholism
- Drug Dependence
- Psychotherapy
- Biological Therapies
- Drug Therapies
- Tips for a Healthy Mind
No practical training is required to complete this course.
There are two ways you can enrol on this course. You can:
- Pay with a deposit of £70 £50, followed by 8 monthly instalments of £25
- OR
- Pay the total course fee in one sum of £270 £250 and also receive a special complimentary gift
To enrol by phone, please call our friendly course advisors on Freephone 0800 731 9271.
