Mental Health Support & Intervention Training
4-5 hour customized learning to increase mental health awareness and resiliency for your workplace or community . I include a specialized course for first responder agencies and healthcare providers!
Participants of this training will learn the steps to identify and assist individuals who are struggling with:
- Addiction or substance-use disorders
- Mood-related disorders & suicide intervention
- Anxiety disorders & panic attacks
- Trauma-related disorders
- Acute psychosis & Emotional Crisis
This includes the knowledge and tools required to:
- Understand mental health and its connection to our overall health
- Reduce stigmas surrounding mental health conditions in your community
- Provide effective intervention to someone struggling with a mental health crisis
- Increase mental health resiliency in your community and workplace
- Use motivational interviewing techniques to build trust and connection
- Build basic understanding of what is happening in the brain during a crisis
- Apply the most recent information on the impacts that mental health problems have on workplace productivity, the community, and quality of life
- Assess the various biological, psychological, and sociological risk factors that contribute to addictions and mental health disorders
- Increase harm reduction awareness about common legal and illegal substances
- Recognize the signs of an overdose and how to respond until help arrives
- Learn the key components of effective crisis intervention
- Increase confidence to engage in a conversation about suicide intervention
- Build healthy self-care and coping techniques to avoid compassion fatigue or “burnout”
- Identify signs and symptoms of common mental health problems and their impacts on daily functioning
- Learn the skills required to support someone with a mental health struggle and connect them to appropriate professional help
Contact jmitchell.services@gmail.com to book training or consultation services!
Workshops for Workplaces & Communities
Mental Health Resiliency Training
Participants in this workshop will gain the skills and knowledge to:
- Understand Mental Health and reduce stigmas
- Increase Mental Health resiliency and ability to cope with impacts on physical, psychological, social, emotional, legal, and financial well-being
- Recognize the biological, psychological, and sociological factors related to mental health problems and disorders
- Be aware of healthy self-care and how to apply it to the mental health continuum
- Increase capacity and effectiveness to provide support to someone experiencing distress until help arrives
- Recognize in yourself the signs of a mental health problem and how to respond to symptoms
- Monitor for symptoms of burnout or compassion fatigue and when to seek support
- Assist others in building mental health resiliency
Overdose Prevention & Harm Reduction
Participants in this workshop will gain the skills and knowledge to:
- Define Harm Reduction, the role it plays in addiction and mental health care
- Discuss the stigmas and barriers individuals struggling with addiction or substance-use face in our society
- Identify the biological, psychological, sociological, and other risk factors that contribute to substance-use disorders
- Discuss how psychological trauma and genetics contribute to substance-use disorders
- Discuss techniques to prevent overdose, infection, injury, and other harms
- Understand the opioid crisis and the history of addiction in North America
- Discuss the common substances and factors that can cause an overdose
- Recognize the effects of opioids, stimulants, cholinergic, and anticholinergic
- Practice how to recognize and respond to an overdose
- Effectively use, oxygen and Narcan/Naloxone to reverse a suspected opioid overdose
- Understanding and the role of harm reduction in preserving life during recovery
- Identify appropriate resources for harm reduction and overdose prevention
Acute Psychosis & Emotional Crisis
Participants in this workshop will gain the skills and knowledge to:
- Recognize the spectrum of signs/symptoms for acute psychosis, drug-induced psychosis, and psychosis-related disorders
- Recognize the effects on emotion/motivation, thinking/perception, and behavioural changes
- Understand the history of psychiatry and treatment of those living with psychosis
- Understand the possible causes and risk factors associated with psychosis
- Understand the complexity of diagnosis and cultural perspectives
- Review the myths surrounding violence and other stigmas associated with people who suffer from these conditions
- Assess risk of harm to self or others
- Effectively communicate to build trust and connection with someone in crisis
- Exercise non-judgmental listening and de-escalation techniques
- Creating a safe and supportive environment in workplaces or communities
- How to address hallucinations, delusions, distressing topics
- What you should avoid doing or saying when assisting someone who is in psychosis
- How to connect them with appropriate professional resources
- Empower an individual with healthy self-care tools, coping techniques, and other resources
- Identify what treatments and resources are available for someone suffering from psychosis-related disorder
Crisis Intervention & Suicide Prevention
Participants in this workshop will gain the skills and knowledge to:
- Recognize various signs and symptoms of psychological crisis
- Learn the 5 common human responses to crisis and overwhelming stress
- Assess risk of harm to the individual in crisis, yourself, and others
- Recognize signs that someone is having thoughts or ideations about suicide
- Learn how to effectively build trust through understanding and active listening
- Increase confidence in building a safety plan to disarm the individuals means of acting on suicidal ideations, while promoting autonomy
- Understand how to apply the SAFER model to someone in crisis (Assisting Individuals in Crisis – 5th Edition, Everly, 2017, pg. 40)
- Discuss and use techniques to meet basic needs of someone lacking stability
- Understand the importance of acknowledging the crisis through normalization
- Apply techniques of active listening to facilitate trust and understanding
- Discuss healthy and effective coping techniques for acute stress
- Recognize when appropriate referrals should be made for professional help
- Build confidence in your ability to facilitate recovery and access to local resources (websites, phone lines, mobile response teams, etc.)
Cannabis Harm Reduction & Education
Participants in this workshop will gain the skills and knowledge to:
- Discuss cannabis and the human endocannabinoid system
- Understand the effects of the common cannabinoids and terpenes in cannabis
- Identify slang terms and the evolution of cannabis in western society
- Understand the history of social policy, legislation, and the “War On Drugs”
- Discuss the effects of legalization in Canada and the United States
- Identify risk factors that contribute to negative side effects
- Identify protective factors that reduce negative side effects
- Discuss the risks of using cannabis during adolescent development
- Recognize the difference of recreational and therapeutic cannabis use
- Learn the potential harms of misuse and unregulated cannabis
- Reduce stigma for medical cannabis users by understanding its role in treating certain conditions (chronic pain, PTSD, insomnia, etc.)
- Recognize the signs that you or someone else is experiencing dependence
- Manage psychological or physical distress in an individual who has consumed too much THC (panic attacks, dizziness, paranoia, disorientation, drowsiness)
- Discuss the different consumption methods (smoking, vaporizing, edibles)
- Identify specific populations that are at risk of adverse reactions
- Apply harm reduction practices for yourself or others who use cannabis
Other workshops include:
Cannabis Health & Wellness Coaching
Psychedelic Integration Coaching
Contact jmitchell.services@gmail.com to book training or consultation services!
