Spotlight Sessions.
Spotlight Sessions.
Transform your understanding of Mental Health and Wellbeing.
Join us on a deep dive into all things mental health. What are the social determinants? How do we take a Contextual Approach? What even is Critical Community Psychology? Build your base-line understanding so that you’re equipped and ready to consider how you can transform your practice.
Here’s a snapshot of the topics we cover.
Understanding: Young People & Mental Health
How do we go beyond individual approaches in understanding mental health?
How does MAC-UK take a contextual approach to mental health?
What have we learnt from young people about what helps with their mental health?
What support is valuable to young people and how do we remove barriers to access?
What could you do to strengthen support for young people?
You’ll leave feeling clear on how to support young people whose mental health and wellbeing is impacted by the contexts and systems they are navigating, including education, justice system and healthcare, with a focus on supporting those who are marginalised within society and by the institutions designed to support them. You’ll get insights from young people about what they need and tangible examples of how you can put this into practice.
This training is available as two hour online webinars for you to book onto as an individual or we can also deliver this directly to your team as a standalone training or as part of a bespoke package.
Understanding: root causes of distress + how to solve this
What are the socio-economic, political, cultural and environmental factors currently influencing young people’s wellbeing?
How can we work alongside young people and professionals to explore the societal influences of distress and to move away from an individual approach to mental health?
How do we help young people navigate the systems they’re in i.e. education, justice and healthcare and how do we work with these institutions to reduce their experiences of harm?
What can we do to respond to this when solutions can feel out of our reach?
You’ll leave this training more aware of what can cause distress and how to to take action to create long-term change.
This training is available as a two-hour online webinar that you can book onto as an individual or book multiple places for your team. We can also deliver this directly to your team either online or in person.
Understanding: global approaches to mental health
How can we go beyond western approaches to addressing mental health?
What can we learn from how communities around the world approach mental health?
What are Critical Community and Liberation Psychology and how can these be useful approaches to mental health?
What can this look like in practice with young people?
What can we do to embed these approaches into our practice?
You’ll leave with an understanding of a variety of global approaches to mental health, examples of what these look like in practice and how these approaches can transform the lives of young people.
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