Foundations of Mental Health

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An introduction to the issues related to mental health for physiotherapists

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Andrea Sturm

Andrea is a neurological physiotherapist from Austria. She has a special interest in Ethics and Mental Health.

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Introduction

Mental Health is every physiotherapist's / physical therapist's business. As a key component of the bio-psycho-socio model used to understand a patient's individual circumstances, Mental Health concerns in physical therapy are not just confined to those patients who have psychiatric diagnoses. Mental Health issues can accompany a broad range of different health conditions, such as diabetes, stroke, amputation, cancer, chronic pain or childhood disabilities. As a healthcare professional with a long term personal relationship with their client, a physiotherapist is in a unique position to be able to identify and address this aspect of their patients well being. This is leading to the growing use of physiotherapy approaches in the treatment of patients even with severe mental health problems worldwide.

Aims

Understand the value of physiotherapy approaches for your patients/clients with mental health issues in various settings, diagnoses and degrees of severity.

Outline

This course is made up of videos, reading, forum posts and a final quiz. The course content is split into the following sections:

International Organisation of Physical Therapists in Mental Health
Physical Therapy and Physical Activity in Mental Health
Mental Health Problems and Severe Mental Illness

Target audience

This course is aimed at Physiotherapy and Physical Therapy clinicians, students and assistants. Other interested professionals such as athletic trainers, occupational therapists, nurses or medical doctors interested in this subject are also invited to participate.

Practicalities

Availability - this course is online and can be completed on your own schedule.

Hours of Learning - No deadlines are applied to this course and it can be started and completed in your own time according to your personal schedule. We expect the required elements to take around 8-8.5 hours depending on your schedule and learning style. Additionally there are many optional resources provided and if you choose to review these the course could take longer to complete.

Types of Activities - Watching videos, reading, a final quiz and participating in an international discussion forum.

Certificates - At the end of the course, when you have completed all of the required elements, you will be able to download a certificate of completion and 8.1 Plus points will be added to your personalised learning dashboard.

Requirements to complete this course

In order to complete this course and receive a course completion certificate plus CEUs/CCUs/CPD points you will need to:

Respect the Plus Community Culture.
Log all the required learning activities as complete (represented by the orange icons!).
Actively and appropriately participate in the course discussions.
Pass a final quiz with a score of 80% or more.
Complete a course evaluation form.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course you will be able to:

justify the role of physiotherapy in mental health care
identify at least 5 descriptions of mental health
select the 4 aims of the International Organisation of Physical Therapy in Mental Health adapted by IOPTMH
list 5 descriptions of cognitive behavioural techniques in physiotherapy
discuss the 2 classification groups in old age psychiatry
select the appropriate actions for a physiotherapist to take in a mental health setting when planning a treatment session
list at least 3 health style factors linked to severe mental disorders

Instructor financial and non-financial disclosures

No relevant relationships disclosed by instructor.

Accessibility

For special needs or accommodations please contact us with details of how we can meet your needs.

Featured reviews

A good introduction to mental health and the role physiotherapists can play!

Janarthanan Rajarahm

Physiotherapist

Singapore

Before completing this course, I did not realise the extent of our role as physiotherapists in mental health. I was not aware of how imperative a collaborative MDT work is. This information will help me as a new graduate next year when I start applying for jobs.

Orla Golden

Student

Ireland

This course has lots of valuable content to help better understand mental health conditions and how we can all help to bring about optimal services for everyone affected. Mental health is everyone's business!

Student

United Kingdom

This is an absolutely superb course. It was certainly challenging, and I feel that I have an 'introduction' to Mental Health. It has stimulated me to study more on the subject, and will definitely change the way I practice. I highly recommend it to all PT's, not only those in Mental Health: holistic means dealing with the physical, which we do well, but we cannot, comfortably, separate physical, mental and emotional symptoms

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