BGO-32: Mental Health Crisis

BGO-32: Mental Health Crisis & Spiritual Emergency – Understanding mental health crisis from a Holistic, Spiritual Perspective

Understanding the relationship between physical symptoms and mental & emotional well-being

Better understand mental health phenomena. Discriminate between a mental health crisis such as a psychotic episode, and a spiritual experience. Understand more serious mental health issues. Know when to refer someone for further support or intervention. Explore how to recognise, understand and contextualise phenomena related to Spiritual Emergency. Learn ethical implications.

BGO-22 01 EN 2022-03 Mental H Crisis Front page

Topics include

Better understand mental health phenomena.
Discriminate between a mental health crisis such as a psychotic episode, and a spiritual experience.
Understand serious mental health issues – psychosis, particularly schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, phobias, eating disorders, addiction, and personality disorders.
Learn more about the impact of trauma, and managing trauma.
Responding to those at risk of suicide.
Compassionate approaches in mental health care.
Understand relationship between physical symptoms and emotional/mental well-being.
Know when someone would benefit from further support or intervention.
Explore how to recognise, understand and contextualise phenomena related to spiritual emergency.
Ethical considerations.
Strategies for self-care.

Online group-work explores

Steiner’s 6 Basic Exercises – applying them in different circumstances.
Effect of doing one of these exercises for a month.
Considering the question of addictions, in the broadest sense.
Building resilience – physically, emotionally and mentally.
Developing a Mental Health Tool-kit