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Global Professional Training Programme
🧩 MODULE 1
Mental Health, Equality & Lived Experience
🎯 Focus
Understanding mental health as part of overall wellbeing, and recognizing how inequality, stigma, and lived experience affect outcomes.
🔑 Key Themes
- Mental health as a universal experience
- Impact of stigma and discrimination
- The meaning of “feeling not equal”
- Lived experience as evidence and insight
- Mental health in neurodivergent populations
🧠 Key Conditions
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
- Depression
- Anxiety Disorders
📌 Learning Objectives
- Understand causes and presentations of mental health conditions
- Recognize inequality as a mental health factor
- Use non-stigmatizing, person-centered language
- Value lived experience in care planning
🗣️ MODULE 2
Communication & Easy Read in Healthcare
🎯 Focus
Improving communication to reduce health inequalities and improve outcomes.
🔑 Key Themes
- Accessible communication
- Easy Read principles
- Non-verbal communication
- Active listening
- Adapting communication to individual needs
🛠️ Practical Tools
- Easy Read documents
- Visual supports
- SBAR communication framework
📌 Learning Objectives
- Communicate clearly and effectively
- Recognize communication barriers
- Use Easy Read formats
- Adapt communication for neurodivergent individuals
⚠️ MODULE 3
Behaviour That Challenges (Understanding & Support)
🎯 Focus
Understanding behaviour as communication and responding with support, not control.
🔑 Key Themes
- Behaviour as communication
- The “acting-out” cycle
- Environmental triggers
- Positive Behaviour Support (PBS)
📌 Learning Objectives
- Identify causes and triggers of behaviour
- Develop proactive support strategies
- De-escalate situations safely
- Build positive, trusting relationships
💡 Core Message
Behaviour that challenges is often a response to unmet needs, distress, or inequality—not simply something to control.
🧠 MODULE 4
Sensory Needs & Neurodiversity
🎯 Focus
Understanding sensory differences and creating supportive environments.
🔑 Key Themes
- Sensory processing (hyper/hypo sensitivity)
- Sensory overload
- Emotional regulation
- Neuro-affirming practice
📌 Learning Objectives
- Identify sensory needs
- Recognize sensory distress
- Adapt environments (light, noise, space)
- Create sensory-friendly healthcare settings
🩺 MODULE 5
GP & Healthcare Practice
(Appointments, Health Checks & Barriers)
🎯 Focus
Improving access to healthcare and reducing inequalities.
🔑 Key Themes
- Health inequalities
- Barriers to care (communication, physical, attitudinal)
- Annual health checks
- Reasonable adjustments
📌 Learning Objectives
- Improve patient engagement
- Adapt appointment systems
- Understand importance of health checks
- Provide inclusive, person-centered care
🌍 Global Relevance
Applies across healthcare systems, regardless of country.
💥 WHAT MAKES YOUR COURSE UNIQUE
This is where your work stands out:
✔ Combines:
- Lived experience
- Clinical knowledge
- Communication accessibility
- Equality and human rights
✔ Addresses a major gap:
Many training programs teach:
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
👉 But NOT:
- Inequality
- Communication
- Real-life impact
❤️ YOUR CORE MESSAGE (KEEP THIS)
This should be at the heart of your course:
“People with disabilities experience the same life challenges as everyone else—but often with additional barriers. These barriers can lead to feeling that their lives are not equal, which has a direct impact on mental health.”
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