MHFA Mental Health Adult Reviews

Very good informative course, presented well. Tutor very good Thanks!

Great course overall and will be recommending it to colleagues. Keen to understand what any follow on/refresher courses will look like. Venue not great though!

The instructor really knew her stuff, very knowledgeable. Everyone enjoyed this Mental Health First Aid training, and I would recommend it to anyone.

An additional course/information relating to children specifically. Especially children/young people on autistic spectrum, children in care, children who have been subject to abuse.

The general thought was that the trainer seemed unorganised and inexperienced. See did say that this was her first course taken on her own and we understand that everyone has to start somewhere. Maybe a class of 15 was too much on her first solo course. The feeling was she was just reading from the manual and not really listening to what anyone was saying. We also had to do some exercises and wasn't explained why or to what relevance they were - in particular the active listening exercise. A few real life scenarios would have been good as people have come out feeling unequipped should they be faced with needing to provide help to someone.

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 The videos we watched were also outdated and stereotypical.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