Mental Health Team Training

N4W provide Bespoke Mental Health Training, tailored to your team or Business requirements. This can be delivered remotely but preferably in person to a number of personnel over a period that suits.

Tailored to your needs covering specific topics or broader subjects. Aimed at the appropriate level within the workforce or team, the package is built for your needs and delivered how and where you want it

Subjects that can be covered

Health/Mental Health

Stress is emotional or physical tension created by a perceived challenge, demand, or threat.

In some cases, a stressor might be a singular occurrence or event. Stressors may accumulate over time before surfacing.

Some common stress triggers include:

• Feeling overwhelmed by responsibilities or pressure due to work, family issues, or school
• Worry about a situation where there isn’t much control over the outcome
• Experiencing conflict, like an argument with a friend or loved one
• Encountering sudden and/or major life changes
• Issues concerning money, health, work, or relationships
• Information communicated by the news or other media outlets
• A traumatic experience where numerous people are in danger of being significantly hurt or even killed

Depression is a condition characterized by feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and often worthlessness, accompanied by both physical and mental symptoms. Depression can best be described as sadness that can take over your life and impact your daily activities, causing you to not function as you normally would.

Feeling sad, on the other hand, can be a mood state where you’re reacting to the circumstances you find yourself in—but unlike depression, your mood recovers over time. Sadness over a life event or while grieving may last for a few days or weeks, but this sadness doesn’t generally lead to the overwhelming sense of darkness that accompanies major depression.

Experiencing sadness means that you can still enjoy activities that you previously liked. Depression, on the other hand, can be an all-consuming sadness that zaps joy from life and where days are spent immersed in negative thoughts.

Depression doesn’t pick and choose what parts of your life are impacted. Rather, if you are dealing with depression, that feeling will affect how you think, what you do, and what you choose not to do. Often, you may lose interest in events, relationships, and activities that were once enjoyable.

If left untreated, depression can creep into all parts of your life—work, school, and home—escalating in intensity and impacting relationships, health, and education.

PTSD is a condition that affects people of all ages. No one is immune to trauma or how it affects the human brain. Depending on the person, PTSD may mean something different but be equally as impactful.

The experience of post-traumatic stress can vary depending on the trauma that the individual went through—even symptoms can vary between two people. In some cases, symptoms can appear nearly instantaneously. For others, it can take decades for symptoms to surface and be recognized. For many, there’s a delayed onset of symptoms, when the brain is no longer as preoccupied or the person has the opportunity to absorb what has happened.

There is no definitive answer to why some people who experience trauma develop PTSD and others do not. A combination of elements may cause the disorder or make individuals more susceptible to post-traumatic stress, such as:

• Exposure to trauma, including factors like the number of traumas experienced and the severity of those traumas
• Familial histories of anxiety and depression
• Emotional response (temperament)
• How your brain regulates the hormones and chemicals your body releases in response to traumatic events and stress
• Occupations like soldiers, nurses, doctors, EMTs, law enforcement, and firefighters expose some people to more trauma than other in jobs

Schizophrenia is a serious condition that can impact how someone behaves, thinks, and feels. People with schizophrenia may appear as though they have lost touch with reality, causing severe distress for themselves, their family, and friends.

Schizophrenia is often diagnosed following the first time that a person experiences psychosis. With an episode of psychosis, someone’s mind is affected and they have trouble seeing or understanding reality. Psychosis can include hallucinations, delusions, or disordered thoughts or speech. This can be frightening and confusing to the person, especially the first time a psychotic episode is experienced.

With schizophrenia, gradual changes in social functioning, mood, and thinking can also emerge.

People sometimes confuse schizophrenia with dissociative identity disorder (DID), but each is a different condition with different symptoms.

When a person has DID, instead of experiencing delusions or hallucinations, they feel “checked out” from the world around them. Someone with DID may feel incredibly organized and in control of the situation they’re in, provided they aren’t dissociating from themselves at the time. Meanwhile, someone with schizophrenia is likely to experience confusion; they may believe, hear, or see things that aren’t real, or feel out of control.

By better understanding schizophrenia and recognizing the signs and symptoms related to it, we can help people to find and access the care and support they need.

An eating disorder is a condition in which a person cannot maintain a balanced and healthy relationship with food. Depending on the condition, they may not eat enough, eat too much, or overly manage the calories they take in or put out.

People with eating disorders may also try to “control” their food, overexercise, develop rituals surrounding mealtimes, or refuse to eat with others. These are just a few examples of the ways eating disorders can manifest.

The overarching image of an eating disorder is an obsession with weight and appearance above health. People with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, and other eating disorders come to see themselves as physically unappealing in ways that do not reflect reality.

Addiction is a chronic disease that changes both brain structure and function, currently affecting the lives of nearly 10% of adults in the United States.

Addiction swaps the everyday desires of the brain with those of the drug you are addicted to. You no longer enjoy what other people do as the brain changes. The changes start with recognition of pleasure and end with a drive toward compulsive behavior to fulfill that desire. Sometimes, when you try quitting, the addiction weakens your ability to manage impulses.

Addiction exerts a long and powerful influence on the brain. This influence manifests in three ways:

• Craving for the object of addiction
• Loss of control over its use
• Continuing involvement with it despite problems it causes

With drug and alcohol addiction, substances hijack the brain’s reward system. This could lead to developing a physical dependence on substances.

Some people develop unpleasant and sometimes dangerous physical symptoms when they stop or decrease substance use. These changes result in a weakened ability to control impulses despite the negative consequences.

Substance misuse can lead to serious physical, emotional, and social problems. For example, continued use of drugs or alcohol can lead to job loss, broken relationships, and other failures. These problems often increase stress and anxiety.

Organizations such as the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the American Psychiatric Association consider substance use disorders a mental illness. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, also recognizes substance use disorders as a mental illness.