Course Outline;

Attendees have a choice of attending individual sessions or all three sessions

Aim and Learning Outcomes:

Session 1- Identification

• Mental health presentations in Primary Care: Depression, stress, perinatal

mental health, anxiety (to include GAD, Social Anxiety, Health anxiety OCD)

Self harm• how they present/ what they look like

• How to triage and assess- what questions to ask, what things to be mindful

of- i.e., risk, safeguarding, capacity

• Differential diagnosis- personality disorders, mania, ADHD/ Autism

• Myth busters

• Use of outcome measures- GAD7 PHQ9

• Patient experiences

Session 2 Management and referral

• Management of mental health in primary Care – what can Primary Care

staff do

• NICE guidance and explanation of the step care model

• Identify patients that can be managed/ treated in primary care and patients’

that need to be stepped up to secondary care/ specialist services

• Referral options – 3rd sector, social prescribing, Primary Care (talking

therapy, counselling) Secondary care mental health services

• Self-help- mindfulness, books on prescription, online resources

• Prescribing- first line treatments

• 5 steps to well being

• Case studies and patient examples

Session 3 Risk assessment and management

• Identification- self harm, suicide- - questions to ask, how to respond

• What primary care staff can do to manage low level risk- patient self management, helpline numbers, resources

• When and how to act when risk escalates

• Safety planning

• Referral to specialist services- crisis team

• Case studies

Introduction to Mental Health Part 2, Cheshire & Merseyside CPD ONLY