Is this course right for me?
Target Audience: All staff with a role in PG Research Supervision
The course aims to increase awareness and understanding of mental health, and to explore concepts of mental health and how it can be improved and promoted.
The term mental health improvement is an umbrella term that includes action to protect and promote the mental health and wellbeing of everyone in the population. This course will be useful for anyone whose role involves responsibility for the wellbeing of others, including staff who are responsible for PGR Supervision. The course aims to increase awareness and understanding of mental health, and to explore concepts of mental health and how it can be improved and promoted.
What is mental health improvement?
- raising awareness of the benefits of building resilience and strength to help cope with all that life brings
- preventing mental illness by reducing risk factors and learning coping strategies
- promoting the recovery message
- reducing stigma and discrimination
Who is this course for?
This course will be useful for anyone whose role involves responsibility for the wellbeing of others. This might be a clear part of your job description, but it also applies to you if you have management or supervisory responsibility for other workers or students. If you have responsibility for supporting others, then you are on the front line in terms of promoting mental health improvement
Aims of this course
This course has two main aims:
• To increase awareness and understanding of mental health, and
• Explore concepts of mental health and how it can be improved and promoted
** This is an optional module of the Strathclyde Supervisor Development Programme (see link to webpage below) **
Delivered By: Colin Flynn, University Wellbeing Advisor