First Aid for Mental Health Course
This course provides essential skills for recognizing and responding to mental health crises, including suicide risk assessment, safety planning, de-escalation, legal compliance, and resource connection.

flexible workload of 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The First Aid for Mental Health Course equips you with straightforward, hands-on skills to spot sudden mental health emergencies, carry out quick suicide risk checks, and apply trusted tools such as the C-SSRS and ASQ. You'll learn to develop joint safety plans, link up with crisis support services, record matters properly, speak up boldly, and stick to legal guidelines, enabling you to act swiftly, securely, and competently in tough spots.
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Develop skills
- Quick suicide risk assessment: use C-SSRS, ASQ, and targeted clinical questions.
- Crisis safety planning: work together on short, useful plans to lower immediate dangers.
- De-escalation communication: employ calm, understanding talk to ease sudden distress.
- Legal and ethical crisis response: operate under duties to warn, safeguard, and record.
- Resource navigation: connect clients promptly to helplines, mobile crisis teams, and urgent services.
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