SkillBase First Aid’s blog posts and pages relating to Mental Health First Aid (MHFA)
A mental health crisis can mean different things. It generally means when someone’s health worsens to the point where they need urgent help from professional services, for example: Severe influence of substances. Severe self-harm needing assistance. Need for physical first aid or medical help. Extraordinarily anxious or panic attack. Paranoia, Read more…
Every day we are hearing the words ‘uncertain’ and ‘unprecedented’ more and more. With many of our routines turned upside down, along with the additional stress of childcare, social distancing, food shopping, and even where your next loo roll is coming from, we all need to take a little time Read more…
Mental Health First Aid training is becoming more and more common. Previously mainly used by large and public sector workplaces, many SME’s and self-employed people are now seeing the value of being trained to deal with a Mental Health First Aid emergency or crisis in the workplace. But do small Read more…
It’s a common one. You need First Aid Training, but how long is this going to take you? How many days of annual leave will you need (or days out of the office) for you to get up to speed? Let’s break this down… Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Like Read more…
Recently we had the total pleasure of interviewing a real champion in the world of mental health advocacy, business and all round inspiring voice! Jake took a wonderfully brave step into the arena of helping others after speaking out about his own lived experience of mental illness. It’s quite one Read more…
It’s our last video for Stress Awareness Month! We’ve covered symptoms, the links between mental health and stress, crutches and pain points, and so much more. Our last episode has got to be pretty good, right? Correct! In our final episode, we ask Julian to divulge what more workplaces can Read more…
Julian Hall breaks down the barriers and tells us some home truths. What do most of his clients admit to relying on and why? In this penultimate episode – Julian exposes some of the most popular forms of stress relief. We learn what people lean on as crutches, just to Read more…
There are just a few episodes left of our Stress Awareness Series! In Episode Five we focus on symptoms. Julian explains that while we can research this ourselves online, there is a common list of symptoms we can familiarise ourselves with. Watch the video below to learn more! Estimated Read more…
Wow – Julian talks a lot of sense! We now have Episode Four: Living with Pain Points But firstly, what is a ‘pain point’? A pain point is something that you can clearly recognise as a factor which is causing stress to your life. For example – if you put Read more…