Learn how to prevent and manage mental illness with practical frameworks to use in services that provide mental health care.
This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.
There is now considerable evidence for using lifestyle interventions as a pivotal approach to prevent and treat common mental illness.
On this three-week course, you’ll discover the benefits of using lifestyle medicine in services that provide mental health care and gain practical skills to use in your context.
This course has been developed by mental health clinicians, academics, and those with lived experience. With their expertise, you’ll be supported in implementing lifestyle medicine to aid in the assessment and management of mental illness, recovery, and wellbeing.
Lifestyle medicine uses the evidence-based application of nutrition, movement, sleep, mind-body practices, reduced substances, social prescribing, connection and more. This is then combined with enhanced behaviour change and health coaching, models of care, and digital health to prevent and treat disease and lead to whole-of-person wellbeing.
You’ll gain an understanding of lifestyle medicine from both a lived experience perspective and as a foundational part of care.
Next, you’ll uncover how behaviour change and health coaching is crucial in lifestyle medicine approaches. You’ll explore communications skills, behaviour change frameworks, coaching guides, digital tools, and built environment optimisation.
With this knowledge, you’ll have a better understanding of how to care for others and yourself.
Finally, you’ll gain the practical skills to successfully implement clinical lifestyle programmes.
Guided by the experts, you’ll finish the course with the knowledge and confidence to use lifestyle medicine in your mental health practice.
The course is designed for health professionals working in services that provide mental health care, such as psychiatrists, general practitioners, allied health, nursing staff, community workers, and peer support workers.
The course is also relevant for families and carers of those with lived experience of mental illness.
Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.
Deakin University offers a brilliant education where students are and where they want to go – in their lives and in their careers. Deakin is Australia’s eighth largest university with over 53 000 students from more than 100 countries, with one quarter choosing to study wholly online at our Cloud Campus.
Deakin excels in research, ranking in the top two per cent of universities in the world in fields including nutrition, information technology and carbon fibre.^ Deakin is also a leader in the quality of teaching and learning, ranking first for student satisfaction in the state of Victoria, Australia for six consecutive years (Australian Graduate Survey, 2010-2015). Deakin University offers you a personalised experience with premium digital engagement, creating the power and opportunities to live in a connected and evolving world.
Deakin is Australia’s premier university in driving the digital frontier – to enable globally connected education for the jobs of the future, and research that makes a difference to the communities we serve.
^ Academic Ranking of World Universities, Times Higher Education and QS World University Rankings
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