END Audiences and Training

Education Not Discrimination will work with four medical schools and four teacher training colleges for  four years, together with a third group that has yet to be determined.

The project will involve the following work:

Medical Students

Our training sessions are based on a long established programme of anti-stigma workshops that has been evaluated by the Institute of Psychiatry.
It draws on previous models of anti-stigma and anti-discrimination work used in New Zealand and Scotland.

A key ingredient is social contact between groups who could potentially be stigmatised and those who could potentially stigmatise them. There are two sessions provided to Third Year students:

Session One includes:

• short lecture on the social impact of living with mental health problems
• testimonies from  someone with experience of mental health problems and a carer for someone affected by mental health problems
• Q&A session

Session Two includes:

• short refresher lecture on key facts and figures
• short role plays in small groups, using professional role players to act the part of a service user and carer. Medical students volunteer to play themselves in a "history-taking" scenario. Groups and actors then give feedback after the role play.

Trainee Teachers

Teachers are in a perfect position to be champions for change within the school environment – both in the classroom and the staffroom.

There are two parts to our session:

Mental Health Awareness training (two to three hours) featuring:

• facts and figures
• signs and symptoms
• pathways to care and discussion around diagnosis and the medical model
• boundaries and limitations of the teacher and the school
• looking after your own mental health

Our workshops for trainee teachers also include specific elements, such as OFSTED targets, the Every Child Matters policy, social inclusion and equal opportunities.

Performance

A performance by ‘On The Edge’ theatre company – an interactive health education programme focusing on psychosis.

The play revolves around a teenage boy, Terry, who experiences the first onset of psychosis and the effect of this upon him, his family and friends. At the end of the performance, the actors remain in character and answer questions from the audience.

Trainee Head Teachers & Social Inclusion Officers

We will provide Mental Health Awareness Training as outlined above for trainee teachers.

Interactive DVD

An adapted and recorded performance of 'On The Edge' will be shown