Topic outline
- COURSE INTRODUCTION, OVERVIEW AND WELCOME MESSAGE
COURSE INTRODUCTION, OVERVIEW AND WELCOME MESSAGE
Welcome to Community Mental Health Course.
Click on this link to join the online discussion or Peer to Peer discussion on the Overview of Community Mental Health (CMH)
NB: Participation is mandatory for all learners and you are expected to comply with the rules of engagement
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
1. DO NOT USE FOUL WORDS NOR INSULT ANY PARTICIPANTS. ALWAYS BE POLITE AND RESPECTFULNESS
2. DO NOT SHARE VIOLENT GRAPHICS, IMAGES OR PORNOGRAPHIC MATERIALS.
3. RESPECT THE VIEWS OF OTHERS WITHOUT FIGHT NOR GRUDGE.
4. THIS PLATFORM IS FOR ACADEMIC DISCUSSIONS ONLY, DO NOT PROMOTE BUSINESS, INVOLVE IN POLITICS TALKS ETC.
- SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AND PREPARATORY COURSES
SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AND PREPARATORY COURSES
In the first week of this course, you will offer some short modules for skills development and preparation. This includes short courses on Life Skills, Introducing Peace and Conflict Resolution, Basics in Health, Hygiene and COVID-19 prevention, and community resilience. These preparatory courses were made to give you an introduction into the essentials of life skills to help you forward in your life and your job.
In Life Skills, you will learn to think about who you are and where you want to go, and what skills you will need to develop in order to get there. In introduction to Peace and Conflict Resolution, you will do exercises with your fellow students in order to learn about conflict, how to recognize and respond to conflict, and how to mediate it. In the Basics of Health, Hygiene and COVID-19, you will be introduced to health principles that are important for you and your community. In community resilience, you will learn to recognize how experiences you have may have impacted or continue to impact you, and how you can deal with this, so that you can fully concentrate on your professional career.
Please enjoy these introductory courses in your first week, and continue to work with and reflect on this first week as you move through the full course.Click on the link above to access the notes on Basics of Health, Hygiene and Covid-19
It is very crucial for you as a learner to know and understand the basics of human health. This include but not limited to how to have and maintain good hygiene. Good personal hygiene involves keeping all parts of your external body clean and healthy for you to enjoy good physical and mental health.
This module will expose you to the key ideas and information needed to have good health. The module has three units which are:
- Concept of the health and disease,
- Hygiene promotion in emergencies and
- Introduction to COVID-19 and its vaccines.
Learning Resources
Read the ebook provided and watch the videos below
Video I - Concepts of Health and Diseases
Video II - Hygiene Promotion in Emergencies
Video III - Covid-19
Attempt this quiz before the deadline.
Click the link above to access the notes of this module.
Everyone experiences conflict at some stage in their life. The conflicts can be interpersonal and sometimes we even experience it with our friends or family members when we disagree with them about something.
This module will help you understand how conflicts develop and how we can as individuals be part of escalating or resolving the conflict.
Learning Resources
Make use of the tasks provided in the notes provided and watch these videosLearning Resources
Make use of the tasks provided in the notes provided and watch these videos
Video I - Introduction Part 1
Video II - Introduction Part 2
Lesson 1 - How conflicts can develop
Lesson 2 - Stages of conflict
Lesson 3 - Personal styles of managing conflict
Lesson 4 - Prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination
Click on the link above to access the notes provided on Life Skills
In a relentlessly changing environment, having life skills is an essential part of being able to meet the challenges of everyday life. The dramatic changes in global economies over the years have been matched with the transformation in technology and these are all impacting on education, the workplace and our home life.
To cope with the increasing pace and change of modern life, learners need new life skills. The relevance of life skills training towards development of students’ social, emotional and cognitive development & dealing with their psychosocial challenges is essential for continuous learning and employability.
Lesson 1 - Overview of Life Skills
Read the notes provided on Study Skills and these additional resources by clicking on the links below
In addition to the notes, watch this video
Lesson 2 - Lesson 2: Self Concept: Who Am I?
In every situation in one’s life, it is imperative to understand oneself in order to be able to relate with others well. Understanding the self has been approached by different theorists differently.
Watch these videos.
A. Based on the videos you have watched, in small virtual groups of a maximum of five (5) learners, actively engage in an online discussion via the discussion forum guided by the following question.
- What do you think has helped him develop a positive self-image of himself?
B. Read the article below and in your notebook, note down the four components of the self – concept as explained in the article:
C. From these videos and the article above, write down what you think comprises your self-concept and share it in the discussion forum
Lesson 3 - Decision MakingIn many instances in our lives we find that we need to make a decision on everything, right from what we shall wear to what we shall eat or not eat, what we shall learn or not learn. All these go through a thought process and sometimes engage others, depending on our understanding of self, our life skills and our level of self- awareness.
In this lesson, you will be introduced to the factors that influences decision making and how to make good decisions
Activity
Watch the videos below on setting SMART goals and write down the key issues that you have identified about setting your own goals.
Guided by the video and the reading by Stutton (2021), make at least four smart life goals related to your education or your health.
Module Additional Resources- Life skills education school handbook Prevention of non-communicable diseases
- Life Skills Education for Children and Adolescents in Schools
- Life Skills - The Skills You Need Looking After Yourself
- Study Unit 1: Fundamentals of Community Mental Health Outreach
Study Unit 1: Fundamentals of Community Mental Health Outreach
This Study Unit seeks to convey or render knowledge of personal and professional development plan to scholars / learners. Emphasis is put in identification of goals to achieve with their respective priorities, schedules, personal strength and commitment, action list preparation, getting further support and finally measuring progress as well as personal / professional development plan outcomes assessment.
Click on this link to access the ebook or readable module on Study Unit 1 titled Fundamentals of Community Mental Health Outreach
By the end of this study unit, you should be able to:
1.1 Describe learning needs for plan development
1.2 Identify steps in personal / professional plan development
1.3 Develop a personal / professional development plan for yourself and assessing personal / professional development plan outcomes.
Learning Resources
In addition to reading the notes provided, watch this video.
- Study Unit 2 - Core Skills
Study Unit 2 - Core Skills
This unit covers, communication and action skills, mind Skills, Communication process and patterns, Collaborative Working Relationships, and internal frames of reference of members in the community.
Upon completion of this study unit, you should be able to:
2.1 Clearly describe the core skills that are necessary for passing over vital communication in community mental health.
2.2 Summarize the different working relationships in community mental health.
2.3 Explain internal frames of reference and their use in creating a free emotional climate during a helping relationship.
Read the notes and watch these videos
- Study Unit 3: Specific Skills
Study Unit 3: Specific Skills
Do you want to know if community mental health specific skills would be beneficial to you and if it would be worth your time and effort? Few community-serving workers, in fact, would not benefit from improved mental health knowledge and intervention abilities. Working in social services, health care, law enforcement, or education, for example, exposes you to mental health difficulties on a regular basis, even if you aren't aware of it.This Study Unit explains the specific skills required to have a good start to a unit and a well structure problem solving of a unitThis unit explains the specific skills required to have a good start and a well structured problem solving unit
Upon completion of this study unit, you should be able to possess the:3.1 Specific skills of a good start to a unit.3.2 Specific skills of a well structure problem solving unit.Learning ResourcesIn addition to the notes, kindly watch these 2 videosVideo 1Video II
- Study Unit 4 - Self Care for Mental Health Professionals
Study Unit 4 - Self Care for Mental Health Professionals
This study unit nurtures its leaners in line understanding self-care for mental health. This embeds portraying and explicitly explaining the needs for self-care.
In addition, the knowledge of developing self-care plan moreover with the monitoring techniques are also attained ounce this material is thoroughly utilized in the learning manner.
This study Unit explains the knowledge of developing self-care plan as well as the monitoring techniques of building and constructing self-care plans.
Upon completion of this study unit, you should be able to:
4.1 Discuss self-care
4.2 Describe the need for self-care and enumerate the consequence of not attending to self-care
4.3 Summarize steps to building self-care plan and then finally construct a self-care plans
After reading the notes provided, watch this video
- Study Unit 5: Ethical issues and Dilemmas in Mental health outreach work
Study Unit 5: Ethical issues and Dilemmas in Mental health outreach work
The issue of patients’ rights to health care most especially mental healthcare is very important. Most times, the rights of people with mental illness or mental disturbances, who are disproportionately vulnerable, can be infringed upon in health care contexts either directly or indirectly. Thus, a more nuanced approached to the issue is required, in that ‘special’ responsibilities falls upon healthcare providers towards this vulnerable group.
- Study Unit 5 - Ethical Issues and Dilemma in Mental Healthcare outreach - Notes File 614.2KB PDF document
Upon completion of this study unit, you should be able to:
5.1 Explain the need for Ethics in mental health care
5.2 Be able to explain the need for ethics in mental health outreach work
After reading the provided notes, you can watch this video to provide more information
- Study Unit 6: Specialist Skills: Understanding and Dealing with Trauma
Study Unit 6: Specialist Skills: Understanding and Dealing with Trauma
This unit comes in two parts and is developed in recognition that most people may have come across experiences, that are very difficult that continue to affect them in many ways including affect their learning. These experiences may include war, atrocities, abuse, extreme poverty and other similar experiences that have caused you to feel helpless and unable to escape and save yourself.
- Learning Resources
Upon completion of this study unit, you should be able to:
6.1 Understand and explain trauma and traumatization, explain symptoms of traumatic stress
6.2 Explain collective trauma
6.3 Give and Explain self-help techniques to enable you manage some trauma symptoms
6.4 Carry out an assessment of effectiveness of intervention
These videos are provided to be complementary of the notes provided. Make sure you watch and digest.
Video I
Video II
Video III
Video IV