What is Mental Illness? Let’s Start with the Basics

 

Half day training (3 hours)

This training will introduce you to the fundamentals of mental illness. A mental illness is illness just like a physical illness. Instead of affecting a person’s body, it affects a person’s feelings, thoughts, and behavior by affecting the organ that controls them -- the brain. Mental disorders and mental health problems can affect people at any age. A physical illness might make it difficult to walk; a mental illness can make it difficult to maintain relationships with people or cope with life’s daily activities.  Understanding mental illness will help you understand the families and children that have a mental illness. When you complete this training you will be able to:

• Identify three major mental disorders and list the symptoms for each
• Describe the effects of a major mental illness on the life of a family or child
• Describe how to apply this knowledge when investigating or working with families and children

 

For more information contact Beverly Crockett at 813-974-9007, or via e-mail at imPACT@fmhi.usf.edu.