Course fees
£495.00
12 Nov 2025 (Available)
Apply by: 29 Oct 2025
November 2025
Face to Face (9am-5pm)
12 Nov 2025, 19 Nov 2025, 26 Nov 2025
Course overview
This course is delivered one day a week for 3 consecutive weeks and focusses on the mental health assessment and care of clients with mental health problems within physical health care settings.
The key areas explored are:
- types of mental illnesses
- mental health assessment
- risk assessment
- brief mental health interventions
The unit will be delivered through a combination of lectures and classroom seminars with experienced healthcare professionals and people with lived experience of mental illness.
100% attendance is mandatory. All the teaching is delivered face to face (9am-5pm).
Although there is no assessment, students are required to complete additional work outside these seminars.
Attendance on this course will allow the practitioner to develop further knowledge and skills to enhance the care of clients with mental health problems within own health care facility.
Course details
Course leader
Josie Tuck (tuckj@bournemouth.ac.uk) and Abby Webb (awebb1@bournemouth.ac.uk)
Course delivery
Face to Face (9am-5pm)
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Prerequisites
This course is recommended for practitioners working with those with mental health problems, there are no restrictions. Applicants need to be working with people with mental health problems but can be from any professional group, including healthcare assistants.
Why choose BU?
Bournemouth Gateway Building is the home of the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences. Its 10,000 square metres of space has created a unified base for the faculty’s education, research and office activities, which previously took place across several buildings in the Lansdowne area. It is open and accessible to all BU students, staff and the community.
We have a long and close association with health and social care practice partners across the region and enjoy close relationships with Dorset Healthcare University Foundation Trust, University Hospitals Dorset and District Hospitals (Yeovil and Salisbury) and Dorset County Hospital.
We are an established, vibrant and supportive academic community of staff, clinical practitioners, students and service users. Our team of highly qualified nursing staff and social scientists are committed to developing the next generation of outstanding, skilled and compassionate practitioners, having been engaged in developing the nursing workforce for over 25 years.
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