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Mental Health Awareness and Wellbeing Support
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Price
£19.99 inc VAT
Study method
Online, On Demand 
Duration
2 hours · Self-paced
Qualification
No formal qualification
Certificates
  • Reed Courses Certificate of Completion - Free
Assessment details
  • Final Exam (included in price)
Additional info
  • Tutor is available to students
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Overview

The Mental Health Awareness and Wellbeing Support course is designed to provide learners with a structured understanding of mental health concepts, common mental health conditions, and the ways in which mental wellbeing is supported within communities, workplaces, and public services. This course focuses on awareness, understanding, and supportive insight rather than diagnosis, treatment, or clinical practice.

Learners explore a range of mental health topics, including stress, anxiety, mood-related conditions, personality disorders, and serious mental health conditions, presented in a factual and educational manner. The course also introduces the role of mental health services, legislation, and community-based support structures within the UK.

Key themes include mental health awareness, workplace wellbeing, service-user participation, and problem-solving approaches that support wellbeing conversations. The course supports informed understanding of mental health from a non-clinical, non-therapeutic perspective.

Rather than preparing learners to provide mental health treatment or counselling, this course builds foundational knowledge, empathetic awareness, and responsible understanding suitable for personal development, workplace awareness, or further study.

Certificates

Assessment details

Final Exam

Included in course price

Curriculum

21
sections
21
lectures
2h 0m
total

Description

This Mental Health Awareness and Wellbeing Support course consists of nineteen structured modules, followed by an assessment, each designed to develop awareness of mental health concepts and wellbeing support principles.

The course begins with an introduction to mental health, exploring what mental health means and why awareness is important. Stress and anxiety disorders introduce common experiences and challenges discussed in mental health contexts, presented without diagnostic or treatment guidance.

Modules on schizophrenia, personality disorders, mood disorders, and eating and sleeping disorders provide high-level educational overviews to support understanding of how these conditions are discussed in healthcare and social contexts.

Self-harm and suicide are addressed sensitively and responsibly, focusing on awareness, language, and the importance of support and safeguarding, without providing methods, instructions, or advice.

Mental health in the workplace explores wellbeing awareness, employer responsibilities, and supportive environments. Mental health legislation and services introduce the UK framework governing mental health support and rights.

Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) explore how multidisciplinary support services operate within the community. The participation of the service user focuses on inclusion, voice, and involvement in wellbeing-related decisions.

The latter modules introduce problem definition, brainstorming, solution generation, analysis, and planning, presented as general problem-solving and wellbeing-support frameworks, not as therapeutic techniques.

The course concludes with an assessment to consolidate understanding of mental health awareness, wellbeing support concepts, and responsible engagement.

Certification

After successful completion of the Mental Health Awareness and Wellbeing Support course, learners receive a free digital certificate from Reed confirming course completion. A provider-issued certificate is also available following verification, with optional premium certificates and academic transcripts available separately.

Who is this course for?

This course is suitable for individuals seeking awareness of mental health and wellbeing support. It is ideal for students, employees, managers, carers, volunteers, community workers, or anyone wishing to develop a better understanding of mental health in everyday, workplace, or social contexts.

Requirements

No formal qualifications or prior mental health training are required to enrol on this course. Learners should have a basic to good standard of English, access to the internet, and a computer, tablet, or smartphone. Completion of the assessment is required to successfully finish the course.

Career path

This course supports awareness and understanding rather than professional qualification. It may complement roles in support services, education, human resources, community work, or further academic study in health or social care-related fields. It does not qualify learners to diagnose, treat, counsel, or provide mental health services.

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This course is advertised on Reed.co.uk by the Course Provider, whose terms and conditions apply. Purchases are made directly from the Course Provider, and as such, content and materials are supplied by the Course Provider directly. Reed is acting as agent and not reseller in relation to this course. Reed's only responsibility is to facilitate your payment for the course. It is your responsibility to review and agree to the Course Provider's terms and conditions and satisfy yourself as to the suitability of the course you intend to purchase. Reed will not have any responsibility for the content of the course and/or associated materials.

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Study method describes the format in which the course will be delivered. At Reed Courses, courses are delivered in a number of ways, including online courses, where the course content can be accessed online remotely, and classroom courses, where courses are delivered in person at a classroom venue.

CPD stands for Continuing Professional Development. If you work in certain professions or for certain companies, your employer may require you to complete a number of CPD hours or points, per year. You can find a range of CPD courses on Reed Courses, many of which can be completed online.

A regulated qualification is delivered by a learning institution which is regulated by a government body. In England, the government body which regulates courses is Ofqual. Ofqual regulated qualifications sit on the Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF), which can help students understand how different qualifications in different fields compare to each other. The framework also helps students to understand what qualifications they need to progress towards a higher learning goal, such as a university degree or equivalent higher education award.

An endorsed course is a skills based course which has been checked over and approved by an independent awarding body. Endorsed courses are not regulated so do not result in a qualification - however, the student can usually purchase a certificate showing the awarding body's logo if they wish. Certain awarding bodies - such as Quality Licence Scheme and TQUK - have developed endorsement schemes as a way to help students select the best skills based courses for them.
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