Course Description

Maintaining Good Mental Health While Working from Home





This free online course explores the basics of mental illness and explains how to deal with mental health challenges. This course establishes the importance of mental health awareness and explains how to deal with mental health issues. Next, we will investigate critical facts about mental illness, causes of work-related stress, mood disorders and challenges facing the modern office worker. We will also study how to promote positive mental health in the workplace, including protecting personal mental health and staying safe during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Training ProviderAlison
Course TypeOnline Learning
Course QualificationCPD Certificate
Course Duration4-5 hours
Course FeeFree
Entry RequirementsLike all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary.

At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives.

Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone.
Career PathWhat You Will Learn In This Free Course
• Discuss how to deal with mental health problems in others and yourself
• Summarise the key facts about mental illness and the ‘mental health continuum’
• Discuss why it is difficult to define mental health problems in any individual
• Explain how to identify signs employers should look for to recognise stress before it becomes a problem
• Discuss the challenges that a modern office worker faces every day in the workplace
• Summarise how to deal with stress and bullying behaviour at work
• Discuss the causes of depression, bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder
• Summarise what things are necessary for home workers to work smoothly and without stress
• Discuss how to determine emotional stress levels and job demands among employees
• Describe how to protect mental health and stay safe during the Covid-19 outbreak
Course Code4875
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