MHFA Mental Health Adult Reviews

Course handbook and workbook- excellent Course power point- shockingly bad. Broke all the rules about what makes an effective slide deck. Far too much text which forced the trainer to talk through the slides a lot of the time. This meant most participants switched off.

The MHFA manual is quite comprehensive. Content seems generic (and common sense) across disorders, conditions, illnesses. I enjoyed the course but felt it was difficult to engage with the facilitator who read from powerpoint slides. The most engaging courses have minimal content on slides while the facilitator provides original and insightful content without reading off slides! Everyone on the course felt the same as we discussed it. It felt like the slides replicated the manual - I could have read the manual without needing to attend the course, particularly a two-day course. I feel with original power point slides, the course would be condensed into one day (because the slides simply replicate the manual). The videos we watched were also outdated and stereotypical. More effort could be made into finding insightful videos for participants to watch. I also feel self-disclosure is useful when facilitating, yet I felt there was too much self-disclosure on behalf of the facilitator. I assessed this based on how relevant the self-disclosure was to the content - it made it very personal rather than general, that is, it was good to hear about the facilitator's experiences yet it pigeon-holed some of the content to her experience only... if that makes sense. Also, for £300 I feel lunch needed to be provided. The course could definitely be condensed into one day - there's no need to go through every single disorder/condition because most of the guidance is the same and common sense. I suggest picking out several key disorders (GAD, depression, eating disorders) and creating case studies around these, getting people to work in groups to go through ALGEE process. A lot more original thinking needs to go into designing this course.

I found the course very informative, factual, positively delivered also the materials provided were ample.

Excellent content and delivered impeccably. I really enjoyed the course and felt my perceptions and understanding of mental health issues and illness have both been vastly extended and improved. I intend to implement the information I learnt within my work community as well as everyday life. Thank you.

The course was good and the trainer was excellent. I was expecting a little more focus on the workplace. I also don't really understand why we do a physical evaluation at the end of the course and now are asked to do an electronic one? Thanks

The course gave a good high level overview of Mental Health and Mental ill Health. However, I was expecting much for information on the legal aspects of managing Mental ill Health. Joni-Rae was a competent trainer, however, it sometimes felt that she struggling to get the course to "flow" and the room layout did not help, either. I am also surprised that a lot of the material used is from the period 2010-2016. Given that Mental Health is now being openly discussed by many levels of society including workplaces, and information is constantly being updated, I was expect more recent material.

I thought the course was extremely informative and very useful. I was really engaged and really took the trainer who really knew what he was talking about and also was nice to see how passionate he was also. The resources given out were amazing and things I will use moving forward. In relation to my job I think the course really helped and I have took many methods away to help but also in daily life.

Ross is an exceptional trainer, he obviously knows his subject very well and is passionate about it too, it comes across that way, and he is able to channel it, into a wonderful learning environment. The course was very helpful and beneficial, and I have already used some of the training points to good use. I thoroughly recommend Ross as a trainer and the 2 day mental Health course.

I was on edge before the training as a couple of colleagues who have done the course previously warned of how challenging and taxing it can be. Although the topics are obviously difficult, I feel that Ross Abbott made all the difference in this aspect. I was able to take in and learn the topics, without being forced or felt like someone was reading from a textbook at me. Ross was extremely inviting and very comforting by nature. I felt that this made everything smooth. I also felt that the way the topics were handled was engaging and extremely easy to engage with. On the whole, everything from Ross Abbott, to the format of the sessions, to the rules set out at the start set the example of what all courses like this should be handled.

great trainer who made the course relevant to the real world and industry we worked in