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Mental Health

Our one-day online Mental Health course is designed to give you a range of tools and skills you can use within a 10-minute consultation window, and a structured approach to mental health appointments.

Upcoming live online events

  • Thu 6 Feb 2025 9.30am

What we cover

  • Creating new narratives for a range of mental health disorders - and how to explain these effectively in a way that helps patients to get better
  • Evidence-based management including therapies and drug dilemmas - everything from psychological therapy to drug-based treatments, self-care and promoting physical health
  • Bread and butter conditions like depression and anxiety - practical skills we can use with patients, promoting self-care, resources to share and pitfalls to avoid
  • Recognition and management of other common mental health conditions including PTSD, OCD, eating disorders and perinatal mental health problems
  • ‘Microskills’ for improving wellbeing like behavioural activation, problem-solving and self-compassion that you can start using with patients the next day
  • The ‘risky’ stuff - risk assessment, mental health ‘emergencies’, and how to support people with complex conditions like bipolar disorder and psychosis in primary care
  • Well-being of health professionals and how we can look after ourselves.

What you get

Option to attend the live online event(s) which takes place during your subscription, for an interactive experience
Watch anytime during your subscription
6 hours teaching
Fully chapterised course so you can dip in and out of topics
1 year access to the course on demand to learn any time it suits you
Pick up where you left off and re-watch sections as you like

Red Whale Knowledge

Includes 1 year access to Red Whale Knowledge - our library of 900+ online written resources (if you already have a subscription, we'll extend your expiry date by 1 year)

More about Red Whale Knowledge

Learning the Red Whale way

We design our courses to be a little bit different to ones you might have booked or attended in the past!

  • Varied teaching styles to optimise engagement
  • Evidence based content and education tools enhance learning & delegate experience
  • Engaging content: stories, humour, cases, WhaleArt and more
  • Our presenters are practising GPs: they focus on getting learning into practice while understanding the realities of the day job!
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What our customers say about our courses

It was very geared to empowering clinicians in primary care to see and offer solutions to common problems and knowing when to refer on and seek advice from specialist mental health services.
— GP, Mental Health course attendee
Although a heavy topic the presenter made every effort to make it engaging and answered all questions as well as pointing out helpful tips.
— GP, Mental Health course attendee
Very up to date and useful information presented in a succinct and pragmatic manner. I wish my weekly GP VTS teaching was like this, I feel would prepare me an awfully lot more on becoming a fully qualified GP.
— GPST, Mental Health course attendee

Ready to buy our Mental Health course?

Live Digital Course
Best Value
Red Whale Unlimited

£205

£420

Red Whale Knowledge access for 1 year 900+ online written
resources
900+ online written
resources
Mental Health on demand for 1 year
CPD tracking and FourteenFish integration
Access to any live-hosted Mental Health online events over a 1 year period
Hundreds of hours of short video bytes
Access to ALL Red Whale Online Courses
Optional add-on of Mental Health Live Printed Handbook

£90

£45

£90

£45