Welcome to Module 5: Understanding Mental Health and Addiction. In the following seven weeks you will learn about the following topics:

Week One:

• The life stage approach
• Mental health through the life stages
  
  

Week Two:

• The impact on human development
• Vulnerability, resilience and thriving

 

Week Three:

• Supporting service users at different life stages
• Maintaining wellbeing
  
  

Week Four:

• Mental disorder in New Zealand
• Continuum of support
• Your role
• So, who does what?
• Cultural models of wellbeing
  
  

Week Five:

• Promoting recovery through inspiration, advocacy and addressing stigma
• Boundaries and accountability
• Work and personal life balance
• Working within your organisation's policies and procedures
  
  

Week Six:

• What are models and interventions?
• Services and settings
• The recovery model
• The strengths model
  
  

Week Seven:

• Recovery planning
• Brief interventions
• Motivational interviewing
• Harm minimisation
• The wheel of change