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BGO-12: Mental Health Challenges

BGO-12: Mental Health Challenges – Recognise common mental health issues

Learn strategies to manage mild to moderate symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress.

Look at mental health issues and challenges through various lenses – lived experience, psychological understanding and strategies, clinical definitions, psychiatric considerations, and Anthroposophic Medicine – extremes of the 4 temperaments and relation to 4 main organs. Learn to recognise common mental health issues. Learn helpful strategies to manage mild to moderate symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress.

BGO-12 Mental Health - Study Guide

Topics include

  • Look at mental health issues and challenges through various lenses –
    • lived experience
    • psychological understanding and strategies
    • clinical definitions
    • psychiatric considerations
    • Anthroposophic Medicine
  • Learn to recognise common mental health issues – especially symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress.
  • Learn strategies to assist with mild to moderate symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress.
  • Looking at the 4-foldness of the human being in relation to organs:
    • Depression, Liver, and Etheric Body
    • Anxiety, Kidney, and Astral Body
    • Obsessive-compulsive tendencies, Lung, and Physical Body
    • Rage, guilt & mania, Heart & Gall bladder, and ‘I Body
  • How to balance dynamic inner and outer forces for emotional and mental well-being – strengthening the ‘I’ function – supporting salutogenesis.

Online group-work explores

  • Individual knowledge and experience of common mental health issues.
  • Helpful strategies to manage mental health challenges.
  • Steiner’s lecture – Overcoming Nervousness – and practice of exercises suggested.