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