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Non-Degree Subject: Mental Health First Aid – Caring for Youth Edition

suject Non-Degree Subject: Mental Health First Aid – Caring for Youth Edition
content This course aims to enable students to learn to identify adolescent mental health problems (depression and anxiety), eating disorders, substance abuse, schizophrenia and other emotional illnesses, and to apply the five principles of Mental Health First Aid. The key task (ALGEE for short) is to help students master the appropriate direction and attitude of conversations with teenagers, be more accurately aware of the current situation and needs of teenagers, and be more alert; when necessary, know how to guide them to seek help from professionals.
Contents:
1. Youth and mental health
2. Adolescent emotional illness-depression
3. Adolescent emotional illness─anxiety disorder
4. Teenagers and Eating Disorders
5. Adolescents and Psychiatric Substance Abuse
6. Severe mental illness (schizophrenia) in adolescents
7. Other resources
8. Summary
Lecturer Mr. Yang Weikun
Mental Health First Aid Course Certified Instructor
object Believers who are interested in building a spiritual life.
date 31/1 - 27/3 (every Wednesday, eight classes in total), closed on 14/2
time 7:15pm - 9:30pm
Place Center for Applied Theological Education, Hong Kong Baptist Theological Seminary
7/F, Christian Building, 56 Bute Street, Mongkok, Kowloon (physical class mode only)
cost Registered students or auditors must be $890
Quota 40
Remark The undergraduate course is an elective course for the popular theology course for believers. All registered students who meet the specified attendance rate and complete the lecturer's course requirements will be assessed as qualified and will receive a subject certificate from the college. In addition, students (either registered students or auditors) decide whether to participate in an "assessment" and pay an additional fee of $100. If they pass the exam, they will be issued a recognized "Mental Health Certificate" issued by the Hong Kong Mental Health Association. First Aid Certificate". Please click here to enter the course introduction
Deadline for registration January 24, 2024
Registration form Online Application Download PDF Forms