Mental Health First Aid
The IDL Responders Training is an online training program provided to equip persons to be first responders doing individual and group counseling for others who have emotional and relational disturbances, stress, trauma, depression, anxiety, dementia, and obesity.
The training is over a two-month period with two additional weeks for project completion.
Dedicated to Service
The syllabus covers the following topics:
- Understanding brain function
- Mental health, the gut, immunity, and insulin resistance
- Mental health disorders: Categories, symptoms, and causes
- Stress and trauma recovery
- Brain wiring and rewiring: Resiliency after crisis
- Depression and anxiety recovery: a biomedical functional approach
- Total wellness from the brain down and lifestyle disease treatment
- Individual and group basic mental health and general counseling techniques
Training involves:
- Pre and post training evaluation
- Participants’ psychosocial health assessments
- Individual 30-minute counseling and treatment solutions
- Four days workshop followed by 4, 1½ hours live video meetings on the evenings of the second week
- Four, 1-hour small group video meetings
- Use of the Brain Health and Total Wellness App
- 6 Case-Study Assignments based on presentations and the App
- 10-day Health Challenge
- Project Assignment
- Counseling practicum and supervision
- Graduation and Certificate
COURSE MATERIAL
See previews of the resource materials.
PRE-REQUISITE
Participants must fill the criteria of being a leader-manager in an organization or community, or must be an aspiring or certified health coach.
NOTE: Individuals can apply independent of an organization.
SCHOLARSHIPS
We provide scholarship opportunities to complete this course. Scholarship applicants must be leaders of youth, community, or religious groups.
ORGANIZATION TRAINING
To request training for persons in your organization, complete the IDL Training Form by clicking the button below.
Note: The minimum person-limit is 12 in any given training program.