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The British Society for Mental Health and Deafness (BSMHD)

WHO are BSMHD ? Only charity in the UK who focus 100% on Mental Health and Deafness WHY ? Deaf people almost twice as likely to have some form of MH episode in a lifetime compared with rest of the population 44% against 25%

WHAT do we do ? - Information hub - Networking - Conferences - Regional seminars - Training

Mental Health First Aid World Mental Health Day 10 th October 2016

Mental Health First Aid

• Internationally recognised course (43 Countries) • Started in Australia in 1999

Described by the BBC as “Plasters for the Mind”

Aims of MHFA • To preserve life where a person may be a danger to themselves or others • To provide help to prevent the mental health problem developing into a more serious state • To promote the recovery of good mental health • To provide comfort to a person experiencing a mental health problem • To raise awareness of mental health issues in the community • To reduce stigma and discrimination 2

Accessible to Deaf people ??

The mental health continuum Maximal mental wellbeing _ The continuum . . . _ No absolutes A person with a diagnosis of a A person with no illness or disorder and serious illness but who copes positive mental health well and has positive mental health Minimal Maximal mental mental health health problems problems A person with no A person with a diagnosed illness diagnosis of a serious or disorder but who has poor illness and who has mental health poor mental health Minimal mental wellbeing 8

The Mental Good Health Cycle mental health Mild mental Serious mental health problem health problem Bad mental health

What’s in your stress bucket? (Source: Brabban & Turkington 2002) Stress flows into the bucket If the bucket overflows, Vulnerability is shown problems by the size of the develop bucket Good coping = tap working lets the stress out Bad coping = tap not working so water fills bucket and overflows 21

The Stress Bucket But if we use ‘self - help strategies’, we can get the tap working to get that stress out! If the bucket overflows, this can cause problems

The Stress Bucket But if we use ‘self - help strategies’, we can get the tap working to get that stress out!

• Have delivered 19 courses in England over a 2 year period • 200 students trained

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