Mental Health Awareness Training for Education Professionals

The slides and videos were very clear

Catherine Williams on 29 February 2024

The style of presentation was supportive. There were resources to follow up with if you want to.

Informative and useful

Tatiana Camilleri on 20 February 2024

I rated with 5 is good for the following reasons: - The material very well prepared by having important features such as 1)transcript what has been said;2) options for subtitles in a different languages for not native English speakers; 3) there are extra sources to expand knowledge on existing material; - all the material has been carefully chosen. Thank you

Much more useful than I was expecting ..

Amanda Akhtar on 17 February 2024

I was sceptical about the course itself as I feel that I am already aware of mental health issues and pay a lot of attention to my own, but I actually found it quite useful as a parent of a child who struggles with anxiety. Although I feel that I understand my child's needs quite well, I think that she would find some of the advice in the video to be very relatable and it would help her to feel more in control of her own mental health. For me therefore, the real value in this video is that it provides me with tools and tips that will help me to support colleagues / students / friends / loved ones who are struggling with their mental health.

Good material but delivery causes stress

Neil Brown on 14 February 2024

There is no way to advance through material already known. The pace for many sections is painfully slow, which aftre a while is stressful.The having to click the mouse every 45 seconds or so in places, sometimes more often to advance the material is draining and demoralising. It borders on infantilisation of the trainee, and the lack of trust implicit is heavily disempowering and disengaging. The tests are almost box ticking exercises, which are very easy to take, I think they are too easy. And the weekly nagging email to complete, timed for Monday Morning, is disrespectful to staff.This training discriminates against neurodiverse members of staff. There is no reason to treat intelligent, professional people like this, or indeed anyone who deserves workplace dignity, which is everyone.As well as stress from the unecessarily slow pace of this, the temptation to multitask and click the mouse every so often will be tremendous. Many will simply ignore the video material after a while and click through.There is no option to view the training as written material. I am convinced that were we forcing our students to endure this we would not consider it to be UDL compliant.The Mental Health in Education is ironically the most irksome section, at one point it even tells us to 'never forget to drink water'. That's not cherrypicking either, much of the material is similarly superluous. The advice given on wellbeing in the workplace is ignored by the same training.

Good material but delivery causes stress

Neil Brown on 14 February 2024

It's unfortunate to have to give such a low rating for nice material, but the delivery format is repetitive, stressful, and disempowering. This is because video content is only given in bite size content, and the emphasis becomes clicking on rather than absorbing. Some concepts are explained rather too slowly, which is frustrating. An option to read all of the content would be terrific, especially for academics, some of us read in detail and quickly, and notably for neurodiverse. There isn't any point running material this slowly with all of the frequent checks, and it would be easier to focus on it if we felt respected and trusted.