Completion of the “Mental Health” training.

Sponsor: The Future Syrian Movement (SFM)

Mental Health Course:

Course topics:

1. Introduction to mental health (A general introduction about mental health, its importance, definition, and the criteria for good mental health in an individual).
2. Adaptation and psychological resilience (Definition of adaptation and psychological resilience, elements of adaptation, factors affecting adaptation).
3. Primary defense mechanisms (Definition and importance of primary defense mechanisms, presentation of their types, and explanation).
4. Frustration (Definition of frustration, its key elements, characteristics, types, effects, and how to deal with it).
5. Psychological conflict (Definition, types, causes, and how to get rid of it).
6. Depression (Definition, symptoms, causes).
7. How to maintain good mental health.

Target group:
In this training, we target adult males and females interested in understanding and developing mental health, and in developing their life skills.

Duration: 4 training hours, divided over Sunday and Monday, from 12 PM to 2 PM.

Feasibility Study for the Mental Health Course:

1. Introduction: Mental health training represents understanding and addressing the challenges and problems individuals face in their lives.
2. Expected benefits:

• Providing participants with information to better understand themselves, their strengths, and weaknesses, and to set goals that match their capabilities.
• Equipping participants with necessary means, methods, and therapeutic techniques to deal with frustrating situations and psychological conflict.
• Empowering participants to apply self-psychotherapy techniques with others.
• Enhancing participants’ skills to achieve good mental health and provide psychological support to others.

Objectives:

• Enabling participants to achieve good mental health.
• Spreading awareness on how to properly deal with life problems.
• Providing participants with proper ways to express suppressed emotions and negative feelings.

Funding:
Provision of trainers, training programs, logistics for training, and certificates at the end of the training by The Future Syrian Movement (SFM).

Advertising and marketing:
Using social media, online advertisements, and promoting them.

Evaluation and follow-up:
Providing questionnaires to participants before and after the course to assess the effectiveness of the training and measure improvement in psychological recovery skills.