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Identifying and Responding to Mental Health Symptoms
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ESSA Mental Health ASK: Part 2 - The Role of the Exercise Professional as an Accidental Counsellor: Identifying and Responding to Mental Health Symptoms
This unit will explore identifying and responding to mental health symptoms. The unit will cover
Identifying and responding to mental health signs and symptoms including:
o
Identifying signs and symptoms
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Common tools used
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Interpreting tool outcomes
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Understanding the pathways to get appropriate help
Completion of this unit will result in the following learning outcome:
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Recognising signs and symptoms and how to help someone access help or services when this happens
This is a pre-record professional development.
Presented by Dr Kemi Wright, AES, AEP
Dr Kemi Wright is the Senior Exercise Physiologist and clinical lead for Fremantle Hospital Mental Health Service. She has been responsible for establishing an exercise servicing pathway for in-patient and outpatient mental health consumers to improve their physical and mental health. Kemi’s research and clinical interests are focused on the role and implementation of exercise for the physiological and/or psychological benefit in special populations including children and youth and mental illness. Kemi is active in professional education space, regularly delivering workshops in Standard Mental Health First Aid and Paediatric Exercise Rehabilitation as part of the Thriving Minds team.
Rates per person
ESSA Member
$30.00
Non-Member
$50.00
ESSA Student Member
$15.00
Student Non-Member
$25.00
Please see
terms & conditions
for registration type definitions.
Access to Podcast
You will be provided information on how to access this Professional Development within your registration confirmation email.
Target Audience
Any Accredited Exercise Scientist, Accredited Exercise Physiologist, Accredited Sports Scientist Level 1, Accredited Sports Scientist Level 2 and/or Accredited High Performance Manager.
This unit is suitable for anyone with an interest in being able to recognise signs and symptoms experienced by those with a mental illness or poor mental health and what to do when you encounter them.
ESSA CPD Points
Successful completion of an assessment, within 60 days is required to earn applicable CPD Points
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* Credit card payment is required with online registration.
* If a tax invoice is required for payment to be made, please use the manual form.
* Upon registering to any ESSA professional development, you automatically agree to our
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.
Disclaimers
The material contained in this course is of a general nature only and is current as at August 2021. To the extent that this course has linked to, referred to or republished Third Party material, the information expressed in that material is not produced by ESSA and ESSA does not warrant or endorse its accuracy, nor does it take responsibility for the content of that material.
The material does not constitute the provision of professional advice by ESSA and ESSA accepts no legal liability for any loss or damage suffered as a result of any information in the publication. ESSA recommends that its members seek appropriate independent professional advice prior to relying on or entering into any commitment based on the material published here.
All accredited persons, regardless of any professional development completed/ attended must refer to their accreditation’s Scope of Practice/Standards, and only treat/practice within the same.
ESSA confirms that at the date of release, this professional development meets the requirements of the ESSA Continuing Professional Development Points Guidelines. The information contained in this professional development is of a general nature only, and while every effort and care has been taken to ensure that all representations are accurate as at the date of its release, ESSA accepts no legal liability for any loss or damage suffered as a result of any information provided in this professional development.
ESSA recommends that its members seek appropriate independent professional advice specific to their particular purposes and circumstances (including the provision of medical advice to patients) before relying on it.
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