Discovering a unique perspective through Virtual Reality (VR)Understanding Anxiety Disorders
Monday 12 December / 10.00am to 1.00pm
This course will focus on Anxiety Disorders, and has been designed to help build empathy, reduce stigma and discrimination, and increase understanding. It will give you the opportunity to see through the eyes of someone with an anxiety disorder. This will provide you with a unique training experience where you can go on to learn about different anxiety disorders with the added insight and understanding of having stepped into that person’s shoes and shared their experience first hand.
Some of the areas covered will include:
• What is Anxiety
• Signs and Symptoms of Anxiety
• Different types of Anxiety Disorder
• Prevalence of Anxiety
• Mental Health in the Workplace
• How to support someone with Anxiety
• Self-Care
Discovering a unique perspective through Virtual Reality (VR) – Understanding Psychosis
Monday 12 December / 2.00pm to 5.00pm
This course has been designed to help build empathy, reduce stigma and discrimination, and increase understanding. It will give you the opportunity to see through the eyes of someone with Schizophrenia experiencing a psychotic episode. This will provide you with a unique training experience where you can go on to learn about different psychotic disorders with the added insight and understanding of having stepped into that person’s shoes and shared their experience first hand.
Some of the areas covered in this course will include:
• What is Psychosis
• Different types of Psychotic Disorders
• Signs and Symptoms of Psychosis
• Risk Factors for Psychosis
• Prevalence of Psychosis
• How to support someone experiencing Psychosis
• Self-Care
Both courses will be held at Bernie Cameron Community Centre, 32 Merchant St, Bow, E3 4LX
