Psychological First Aid: Caring for Others [ONLINE COURSE]

Description

This online course provides participants with an understanding on how to recognize when a person is experiencing distress and how to offer help without judgement or assumptions. Using the Red Cross Look, Listen, Link, Live model, participants learn how to support others to cope with the effects of various types of stress. Combine this course with the Psychological First Aid – Self-Care online course to further support existing wellness education programs.

Note for Course Participants:
While mental health first aid programs teach how to help someone experiencing a mental health emergency, Red Cross Psychological First Aid is a resiliency-based program for everyone that offers prevention and coping strategies for dealing with different types of stress resulting from various types of trauma.

Audience:
Course is adaptable to all audiences (Youth, Workplace, Professional Responder)

Duration: Online: 45 – 90 minutes
Online course is self-paced. Participants may leave the course at any time and can resume where they left off. The duration will vary depending on the individual learner and their prior knowledge of the subject matter.

Prerequisites: 18 years of age (recommended)

Completion:
At the end of each online module participants must successfully complete the test before continuing to the next module. Participants that do not achieve 100% can review the module content and try as many times as necessary to advance and complete the course. Test questions are randomly selected from a test bank, making each test unique.

Course Content:
Online: Caring for Others: Understanding the effects of stress, loss and grief on others using the Red Cross Look, Listen, Link, Live model.

Participant Materials:
Printable certificate issued upon successful completion

Red Cross Course Fact Sheet