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How to Help Family Members or Friends with Mental Illness (Udemy.com)

Practical Counseling Skills to help children, family or friends with Depression, Anxiety, or Other Mental Illness

4.6
288 reviews

Created by: Emma McAdam

Last updated June 2021

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What you will 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

How it compares

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  • Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 54% of them
  • Reviews288#549 of 1,108 by number of reviews
  • Length5.3 hourslonger than 77% of them
  • Last updatedJune 2021earlier than 76% of them

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Course Description

Hi Everyone! If you're here looking for my courses, I've had to move them to another platform due to some changes that Udemy has made. They're still the same great courses, but on a different platform. (They're cheaper too) Check them out at courses.therapynutshell. com





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.
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Instructor Details

Emma McAdam

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.

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By Michael Trautman on 4/22/2021

My daughter suffers from anxiety, bi-polar disorder, and panic attacks. I am seeking to understand how best to help her. We have a good relationship, but at times, I can see I enable or exhibit controlling behaviors that don't help, and may hurt her.

By Lisa Ruggiero on 1/8/2021

This course is so packed full of information that is divided into digestible segments that can be reviewed again as a refresher. Listening to Emma is like having a friend stand by your side as you do your best to support a person with mental illness. She understands what it is like to be the supporter and also a person living with mental illness. Thank you!

By Nur Kamilah Binte Mohd Sharip on 11/7/2020

Heartfelt share although the information is basic for me since I am already in the field of coaching for ten years, her explanation is easy to follow and information is very organised and presented in a systematic way. I definitely learn something new for myself.

By Kristen Atchison on 7/15/2020

Yes it has been. I always need tools to use when I am dealing with an emotional response to a situation because I get emotional too and I need to know how to respond in a better, calmer manner so this video is giving me those tools.

By Richard Jesser on 7/7/2020

This was a great course. It was relatable, with the background understanding of mental illness combined with practical skills and strategies. I found Emma to be very likeable throughout the entire course. Highly recommend to anyone with a loved one struggling with mental illness.

By Jodie Albert on 5/25/2020

Yes it has been a great match for me with my own personal life. I am an addict in recovery and this is teaching me so much about myself and how to help others. My goal is to become an addictions counselor than go onto to becoming a therapist. Very helpful

By Karen Foreman on 4/3/2020

It was full of some really helpful ideas that would be extremely useful should I need to support someone.

By Gitta Suganda on 12/14/2019

yes it is, but idk i think i will dig deeper for information about mental illness that she said it is treatable, i'm not sure whether it is treatable like it will be cured? i don't think so, I think it's only managable, you can't cured but you have a way to make this work out so you can be functional as a human being. :)

By Yvonne Akai Evans on 12/13/2019

This is a wonderful course. What every family member needs to better understand what their loved one is feeling. It gets to the heart of the matter. The instructions are concise for such a sensitive complex topic. I will certainly be checking in often as the journey with my loved one progresses.

By Paul Rollason on 6/7/2019

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.

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