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How to Help Family Members or Friends with Mental Illness

Practical Counseling Skills to help children, family or friends with Depression, Anxiety, or Other Mental Illness
Highest Rated
Rating: 4.7 out of 54.7 (227 ratings)
1,330 students
Created by Emma McAdam
Last updated 2/2020
English
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30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Learn how to support your loved one with mental illness in a positive and helpful way
  • Parenting skills for a Child with Mental Illness
  • Create a Healthy Relationship where you can influence them positively
  • Become a great listener so they'll open up to you
  • Know what to do if your loved one won't talk, won't get help, or is suicidal
  • Learn alternatives to traditional treatment so that they have multiple "tools" to help your loved one
  • Better understand relationship dynamics so you can improve your role in the system.
  • Boundaries
  • Self-Care
  • How to help them access resources
  • Advanced topics like suicide prevention, recognizing dysfunctional roles, managing attention seeking behaviors and self harm, and so much more

Requirements

  • You need to care about someone with a mental illness.

Description

Someone you care about struggles with depression, anxiety or other mental illness and you want to know how to help.

Mental Illness is common, at least 35% of people experience mental illness during their lifetime, and some estimate that as many as 55% of people have a bout with it once during their lives. That means that as long as you know at least 3 people, odds are good that you know someone with a mental illness.

This course is packed with information for family and friends of someone with depression, anxiety, or other mental illness. It's got 5 hours of education in 55 short videos so you can know what to do to help them.

You’re taking this course because someone in your family or one of your close friends is experiencing depression, anxiety or another mental illness. They need help, and you want to know how to be helpful to them. You’re taking this course because you care about them.

Because you worry about them. Perhaps you’re afraid for their safety or their success.

You’re taking this course, because you-like your friend with a mental illness- don’t know what to do next to help.

In this course I’m going to teach you how to become an influential and positive source of support for your loved one.  I’m going to teach you the changes you can make to be a more effective helper.

  • How to build a Relationship of influence

  • Boundaries

  • Self-care

  • How to listen so they’ll open up to you, (Empathic and Reflective Listening Skills)

  • 32 Ways to help even if they don't want to talk

  • Stuff to say and Stuff not to Say

  • How to help them access resources

  • How to ask good questions

  • What to do if they won’t get help

  • Explore relationship dynamics that my be impeding the healing process

  • And 15 videos dealing with advanced topics like suicide prevention, recognizing dysfunctional roles, managing attention seeking behaviors and self harm, and so much more. 

Your relationship with the person you care about is the most influential factor for change that exists. You have the ability to make a big difference in the lives of others, So Let’s get started learning how to help.

Who this course is for:

  • Parents, spouses, friends and family members of someone with Depression, Anxiety, or other Mental Illnesses
  • Mental Health Providers who want to learn a foundation in Relationship Based Influence

Featured review

Paul Rollason
Paul Rollason
65 courses
19 reviews
Rating: 5.0 out of 5a year ago
Really enjoying this course (75% complete). Emma is an engaging tutor and the lessons are just the right length to get the message across without being too long. There is so much in this course that I feel I will have to go back and revisit it many times in the future to reinforce some of the subject matter. Highly recommended.

Course content

6 sections • 57 lectures • 5h 14m total length

  • Disclaimer
    00:32

  • Preview03:07
  • Preview03:17
  • A Systemic Approach to Treating Mental Illness
    07:27
  • Preview05:34
  • How Relationships Affect Mental Illness
    08:09
  • What Causes Mental Illness?
    05:14
  • Understanding their Disorder
    08:33
  • Understanding Mental Illness Diagnoses
    06:26
  • Taking Care of Yourself
    03:35

  • Unconditional Positive Regard
    07:08
  • The Paradox of Making them Feel Better
    08:20
  • Creating Emotional Safety
    06:46
  • Empathic Listening-An Introduction
    07:58
  • Preview07:07
  • Why you're trying to help...is it helpful?
    04:38
  • Loving Boundaries
    03:54
  • Boundaries Part 1
    08:54
  • Boundaries Part 2
    04:44
  • Boundaries Part 3
    06:48
  • Acting on your Values, not their Outcomes
    04:56
  • Enmeshment vs. Detachment: A Better Way
    05:51
  • Being Right vs. Being Helpful
    07:08
  • Have you tried this? The Problem with Advice
    06:10
  • A Strengths Based Approach
    05:31
  • The Function of Emotions and Behaviors
    00:20
  • The Function of Depression
    09:32
  • Patience
    03:17

  • Introduction to the Skills Section of this Course
    00:27
  • Helping them Access Resources
    08:26
  • Inviting them to Be Active
    04:22
  • Helping them Laugh
    01:34
  • Stages of Change:Tailoring your approach to what they're ready for
    00:20
  • Asking Good Questions
    07:21
  • Extending a Helping Hand
    03:25
  • Helpful Things to Say
    05:47
  • How to Choose a Therapist
    06:59
  • What to do if they won't get help
    06:03
  • Getting Individualized Help-You Probably didn't Think of This
    02:23

  • Get off the Teeter-Totter: Homeostasis and Polarization
    08:38
  • How to talk about Suicidal Thoughts
    08:41
  • Medication
    06:35
  • Switch Addictions
    05:09
  • Looking Beneath Behaviors
    00:20
  • Reflective Listening
    08:06
  • Your Role as a Parent
    05:36
  • Your Role as a Spouse
    04:37
  • Getting into the Growth Zone
    10:28
  • Intimacy Issues
    04:44
  • Attention Seeking Behaviors
    06:23
  • Teaming up with them against the Illness
    05:05
  • Helping them see more clearly
    05:27
  • Intensive Treatment Options- Hospitalization and and More
    06:32
  • What if they won't talk?
    04:18
  • Advocating in an Effective Way
    10:08
  • Conclusion
    00:31

  • How to Help a Grieving Friend
    05:17

Instructor

Emma McAdam
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Emma McAdam
  • 4.6 Instructor Rating
  • 2,133 Reviews
  • 9,047 Students
  • 6 Courses

Hi there! I’m Emma McAdam, I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and I love helping people change. But I get it that understanding mental health can be confusing and stressful, but I also know that there’s hope-you can change your brain and resolve painful emotions- and I can walk you through that process.

I’ve been working in the field of change and growth since 2004. I got my Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Utah State University and I’m currently licensed in the state of Utah. I’ve worked in settings like Juvenile Corrections, Adventure Therapy programs, High Schools, Wilderness Therapy programs, an Eating Disorder Treatment Center, a Residential Treatment Center, and Outpatient Therapy.

It can be so hard for so many people to access mental health resources. There’s big obstacles like cost, stigma, not knowing where to look or lack of high-quality local resources, and these make it hard for people to be able to get basic mental health services.

When my first child was born (I have three little girls), I wanted to spend as much time with them as possible when they were little, so I stopped seeing as many clients. But the calls kept coming. Faced with an overwhelming need, and an overactive mind, I decided to do one small thing- I started making videos on mental health topics in my wee-morning hours while my babies were asleep. In bite sized little nuggets, I make mental health skills more accessible through YouTube videos and Online Courses.

Therapy is this awesome process where two people sit down together and work through a challenge in a personalized, supportive environment of growth. And although these resources are education and not therapy, I’ve seen these videos make a positive impact on thousands of my viewers and students.

I love helping people change and I'm willing to be creative in how I help that happen. I take a solution-centered approach with an emphasis on learning skills to help people find love, purpose, and joy in life. In my spare time I enjoy exploring the world with my husband and daughters, spending time outdoors, photography, making stuff, and learning new things.


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