This page provides information about our Healthy Minds mental health awareness-raising resource. If you have any questions about the resource or would like to hear more about it, please contact ggc.mhead@nhs.scot.
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What is the Healthy Minds resource?
Healthy Minds is a universal resource which aims to promote basic awareness and understanding of mental health and topics that are associated with and can impact on mental health and wellbeing. It is a cascading and capacity building resource that aims to support partners and organisations deliver on the public mental health agenda. The focus of Healthy Minds is prevention and early intervention.
The sessions can be delivered in person or online. Please read our Healthy Minds information leaflet carefully before accessing the resource: Healthy Minds Information leaflet.
Who can use Healthy Minds?
The resource is aimed at anyone who has an interest in raising awareness of mental health and wellbeing. You don’t need any prior experience or qualifications to deliver any of the sessions. It is not a training resource but a tool to raise awareness of basic mental health and areas that can impact on mental health and wellbeing.
Healthy Minds by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, meaning it can be used and adapted to suit your own purposes.
The Healthy Minds Collection
There are 19 sessions available to download on a range of areas that can impact mental health and wellbeing. Each session has a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, and handout to guide you through delivering the sessions.
Translations to Arabic, Mandarin, Polish, Romanian, or Urdu are available for some sessions, including Basic Mental Health Awareness (01) and Menopause (17).
You can browse the full collection below:
00. Healthy Minds Information Session
Anyone can deliver a Healthy Minds session to raise awareness of mental health and the factors that can impact it. To help you deliver these sessions with your staff, team, or partners, we have developed a dedicated Healthy Minds Information Session. This introductory session gives an overview of the resource, including what it is, why it was developed, and how to access it.
Included as part of this are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, and a frequently asked questions document:
For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:
01. Basic Mental Health Awareness – Adults
Included as part of this are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, and handouts:
Download this session in Arabic, Mandarin, Polish, Romanian or Urdu.
For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:
02. Basic Mental Health Awareness – Children and Young People
Included as part of this are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, and relevant handouts:
- PowerPoint
- Facilitator’s Notes
- My World Triangle Handout
- Children and Young People Mental Health Resources Handout
For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:
03. Body Image
Included as part of this are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, and relevant handouts:
For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:
04. Emotional Literacy
Included as part of this are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, and relevant handouts:
- PowerPoint
- Quiz
- Adult Mental Health Resources Handout
- Children and Young People Mental Health Resources Handout
- Facilitator’s Notes
For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:
05. Loneliness and Isolation
Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, and relevant handouts:
For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:
06. Long Term Conditions
Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, and relevant handouts:
For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:
07. Loss and Grief
Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, and relevant handouts:
For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:
08. Loss and Grief during a Pandemic
Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, quiz, session outline, and handouts:
For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:
09. Maternal Mental Health
Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, and handouts:
For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:
10. Adult Mental Health Improvement Framework
Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, and handouts:
For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:
11. Children and Young People Mental Health Improvement Framework
Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, and handouts:
For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:
12. One Good Adult
Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation and facilitator’s notes, and handouts:
For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:
13. Resilience
Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, and handouts:
For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:
14. Sleep
Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, and handouts:
For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:
15. Stigma and Discrimination
Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, quiz and answers, and See Me Scotland’s resources:
For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:
16. Mental Health and Alcohol
Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, quiz and answers, and resources:
For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:
17. Menopause and Mental Health
Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, quiz and answers, and resources:
Download this session in Arabic, Mandarin, Polish, Romanian or Urdu.
For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:
18. Online Harms and Mental Health
Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, quiz and answers, and resources:
For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:
19. Screen Time and Mental Health
Included as part of this session are a PowerPoint presentation, facilitator’s notes, quiz and answers, and resources:
For those who are looking to deliver the Healthy Minds sessions online using a virtual learning space such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, we have also developed an online guidance document:
Appendices
The below appendices include information on mental health training courses and a reflective practice evaluation form :