Schizophrenia and Bi-polar 24/25

Target Group:

This training is targeted at:

• Professionals in direct contact with children who undertake or contribute to risk assessments and multi-agency meetings including social workers, family support workers, health professionals, schools, police and others who work with children at risk of abuse, neglect and exploitation who work for the London Borough of Sutton.  

Competency level: 

• Group Level 2 (regular contact with children, young people and/or parent/carer) or Level 3 (predominantly working with children) or above (including strategic leads), and NHS Inter-Collegiate Standards 2 and above for health professionals. 

Aim:

The aims of this session are: 

• To give participants an overall understanding of what it might be like to live with schizophrenia or bi-polar disorder (manic depression), and to give some practical suggestions for supporting someone who has either of these conditions.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this course, participants will have:

• An increased knowledge about some facts and figures relating to schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder;
• An ability to list the main positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder;
• An ability to describe the characteristics of the five main types of schizophrenia and the two main types of bi-polar disorder;
• An increased knowledge around what it might be like to have hallucinations, and also have practised ways of communicating with a person who has hallucinations;
• An increased knowledge of the different types of medication, other treatments and sources of support that can be offered to people who have either schizophrenia or bi-polar disorder;
• An increased knowledge of issues relating to self-harm and suicide for people who have schizophrenia or bi-polar disorder;
• An increased knowledge of issues relating to risks to others that some people who have schizophrenia or bi-polar disorder may present;
• An ability to list resources in the local community which may be helpful to people who have schizophrenia or bi-polar disorder.