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Mental Health First Aid: addressing mental health as a public health priority
Perspectives in Public Health, 2015Would you know how to help a friend in the midst of a panic attack? Do you believe your manager has the skills to recognise when positive stress tips over into detrimental anxiety and offer appropriate support? Crucially, would you know how to help yourself or where to go for support if your mental health started taking a turn for the worse?Mental ...
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Mental Health First Aid: A course and a movement
The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter, 2017We are on Main Street and a middle‐aged man clutches his chest in cardiac crisis. A member of the community trained in medical first aid administers cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) until paramedics arrive. A life is saved.
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Mental Health First Aid: an international programme for early intervention [PDF]
Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 2008 AbtractAim: To describe the development of the Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) programme in Australia, its roll‐out in other countries and evaluation studies which have been carried out.Methods: A description of the programme's development and evaluation, its cultural adaptations and its dissemination in seven countries.Results: The programme was ...
Anthony F. Jorm, Betty A. Kitchener
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Mental health First Aid in an Irish Context
2013Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is an early intervention training course designed to improve the knowledge, skills and confidence of non-clinicians to manage mental health emergencies. The course aims to minimise the negative impact of mental distress by encouraging the early provision of appropriate care. The course has been evaluated in Australia, but
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Mental Health First Aid campaign to support first responders
Mental Health Weekly, 2019Although a number of police officers around the country have been trained in Mental Health First Aid (MHFA), the public education program that can help individuals across the community understand mental illnesses and support timely intervention, it has yet to fully expand and embrace the firefighter and emergency medical technician (EMT) community ...
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Clinical and Experimental Health Sciences
Objective: Mental health problems are among the most common health problems today. This study was a randomized controlled trial in order to determine the effect of nurse-led mental health first aid training (MHFA) on mental health and mental health ...
Ilknur Yalcin, Ayşe Ergün
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Objective: Mental health problems are among the most common health problems today. This study was a randomized controlled trial in order to determine the effect of nurse-led mental health first aid training (MHFA) on mental health and mental health ...
Ilknur Yalcin, Ayşe Ergün
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Mental Health First Aid in Rural Communities: Appropriateness and Outcomes
The Journal of Rural Health, 2016AbstractPurposeMental Health First Aid (MHFA), an early intervention training program for general audiences, has been promoted as a means for improving population‐level behavioral health (BH) in rural communities by encouraging treatment‐seeking. This study examined MHFA's appropriateness and impacts in rural contexts.MethodsWe used a mixed‐methods ...
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Mental health first aid is only part of the solution
British Journal of School Nursing, 2018Health and education professionals have expressed concern that mental health first aid may be considered as a replacement for professional care and more needs to be done to address the mental health crisis in schools.
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Mental Health First Aid: A Useful Tool for School Nurses
NASN School Nurse, 2017School nurses address mental health issues of youth on a daily basis. These mental health issues include substance abuse, anxiety, depression, and even suicidal ideation. Mental health first aid is a process that seeks to help medical professionals and laypeople recognize and address someone that is having a mental health or substance abuse crisis ...
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