Parent Youth Mental Health Training
- Understand how to maintain mental wellbeing
- Learn about different mental illnesses- the signs and symptoms
- When and how to offer support
- Get the tools and knowledge to help your kids
- Gain confidence to have mental health conversations
How to complete the training
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How to complete the training
- Read through or watch the content for each lesson.
- At the end of each lesson at the bottom, you will need to click complete and then click through to the next section.
- Each section needs to be marked as complete for you to complete the course.
Read the Play
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What is RTP?
Learn what is Read The Play and how we help Youth Mental Health awareness.
Maintaining mental wellbeing
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Parent mental wellbeing introduction
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Maintaining mental wellbeing: Exercise.
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Maintaining mental wellbeing – Diet.
The effects diet can have on mental health, the importance of consuming a balanced diet and measures that can be implemented to encourage healthy eating.
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Maintaining mental wellbeing - Sleep
The link between sleep and mental health, the effects of sleep disturbances and strategies to improve sleep hygiene.
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Maintaining mental wellbeing - Self Care
How self-care helps maintain good mental wellbeing, types of self-care and self-care suggestions to suit the individual.
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Maintaining Mental Wellbeing
Mental Illness
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Parent mental illness introduction
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Youth mental health – the facts
Statistics outlining the prevalence of youth mental health, self-harm and suicide.
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The mental health spectrum
A continuum we move along depending on our mental health.
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Risk factors for mental ill-health
The range of biological, physiological and social factors that may influence an individual’s mental health.
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Anxiety
The prevalence, types, signs and symptoms and possible treatment for anxiety.
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Depression
The prevalence among young people, signs and symptoms and possible treatment for depression.
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Psychosis
A definition, risk factors, signs and symptoms and possible treatment for psychosis.
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Eating Disorders
Eating disorders and young people, types of eating disorders, risk factors, signs and symptoms and how to support someone with an eating disorder.
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Mental Illness
Self harm and suicide
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Self harm
The prevalence of self-harm among young people, warning signs of self-harm and harm minimisation strategies.
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The suicidal person
Suicide and young people, risk factors for increased risk of suicide, warning signs, management strategies to assist with talking to someone who is suicidal and safety planning.
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Self Harm and Suicide
Offering support
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Parent offering support introduction
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Having the conversation.
Ways to engage with a young person, measures to take to encourage an ongoing and trusting relationship, and recommendations to offer.
Where to now?
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Where to now? Introduction
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Online resources and supports
A list of online resources that will provide information on young people and mental health that may act a gateway to seeking professional help.
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Phone applications
A range of applications that are available to be downloaded to smart phones that encourage mental wellbeing and support for those experiencing a mental illness.
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Helplines
National hotlines that support mental health.
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Professional support
Services that can be utilised when young person requires professional help.
The teenage brain and mental health
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The brain and mental health
An insight into three areas of the brain and the development of a young person’s brain.
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