First Aid for Mental Health Course
This course equips participants with essential skills for recognizing and responding to mental health crises, including suicide risk assessment, safety planning, de-escalation, ethical documentation, and resource coordination to ensure safe and effective interventions.

4 to 360h flexible workload
certificate valid in your country
What will I learn?
The First Aid for Mental Health Course provides you with clear, practical skills to recognize acute crises, conduct rapid suicide risk assessments, and use validated tools like the C-SSRS and ASQ. Learn to create collaborative safety plans, coordinate crisis resources, document ethically, communicate with confidence, and follow legal protocols so you can respond quickly, safely, and effectively in high-risk situations.
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Develop skills
- Rapid suicide risk assessment: apply C-SSRS, ASQ, and focused clinical questions.
- Crisis safety planning: co-create brief, practical plans that reduce immediate risk.
- De-escalation communication: use calm, empathic dialogue to stabilize acute distress.
- Legal and ethical crisis response: act within duty to warn, protect, and document.
- Resource navigation: link clients fast to hotlines, mobile crisis, and urgent care.
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