This mental health course covers the prevention, symptoms and treatment of anxiety, stress and burnout. Also presented:

What is strength?
General well-being self-assessment
Types of health and the meaning of health
Holistic approach: focusing on mental, emotional, physical
Common work, environment and life challenges
Ethics & Cognitive Dissonance
Anxiety / Stress / Burnout
Life stressors and how even positive stress can hurt your health
Prevention and treatment of health problems: Staying strong
Thinking your way to health

Goals & Objectives:

1. Student will identify at least 2 definitions of strength
2. Student will take a well-being assessment and identify his/her own sense of well-being
3. Student will be able to identify at least 5 different types of health that affect overall well-being
4. Student will gain an understanding of 3 primary types of health and their effects – mental, emotional & physical health
5. Student will be able to identify at least 3 factors that weaken overall health
6. Student will gain an understanding of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs as it relates to health & well-being
7. Student will be able to identify at least 3 challenges facing first responders, and how those affect well-being
8. Student will be able to explain how cognitive dissonance affects mental well-being
9. Student will gain an understanding of how anxiety, stress and burnout can result in poor overall health
10. Student will identify his/her own level of current stress
11. Student will be able to name at least 3 ways to be preventative and treat health problems for resiliency
12. Students will gain an understanding of how negativity and stress can weaken brain function, resulting in overall low well-being and health

This enrollment provides access to the class for thirty days.