Mental Health Services

• Assess and evaluate the issues, concerns, and psychological risks of individuals.
  • Presence of extreme anxiety, stress, irritability, mood swings, and other forms of mental health issues.
  • Self-care skills
  • Dysfunctional well-being/mismanagement of problems of living
  • Thoughts about hurting others or one’s self
  • Addiction tendencies
  • Comorbidities and presence of mental health concern
  • Helping skills/protective factors/psychological antigens
• Facilitate baseline data for developing more specific mental health services.
• Provide mental health first aid and/or referral service to those in need.

These are the following dimensions being measured by this inventory.

• Informed Consent/Data Privacy Act Manipulation Check
• Personal Information
• Educational Background
• Family Background
• Work Experience
• Physical/Mental Health Information
• Difficulties Information
• Helping Skills

This inventory can be accessed and distributed through a Google survey link.

• Capacitate identified personnel with necessary helping knowledge and skills in facilitating mental health first aid to individuals in their organization in times of need (e.g., traumatic event, natural disaster, or public health emergency). Trainees will be able to develop the skills in:
  • Assessing for risk of suicide and harm
  • Listening non-judgmentally
  • Giving reassurance and information
  • Encouraging appropriate professional help
  • Intensifying coping strategies and techniques
• Develop a system of referral, follow-up, and follow-through for the organization.
• Integrate basic mental health practice in the organization through occupational health and safety and HR policies.

The training and certification process will be completed in 2 days.

Day 1

1. Understanding mental health first aid
2. Principles of mental health first aid
3. Ethical standards, referral, and limits
4. Helping process and skills

Day 2

5. Assessing risks of suicide and harm
6. Self-care
7. Demonstration
8. Certification

All training activities are conducted through a Zoom online meeting. Worksheets and outputs are completed and submitted using the MS Word file application. Assignments are given in advance through email.

All facilitators are PRC Registered and Licensed Mental Health Professionals with advanced degrees, training, and certifications in the practice of counseling, psychological assessment, and psychosocial interventions.

• Develop a system of referral, follow-up, and follow-through for the organization.
• Integrate basic mental health practice in the organization through occupational health and safety and HR policies.
• Facilitate basic mental health assistance to those in need in the organization.

Sessions are facilitated through a Zoom meeting or any social media application with a videocall conferencing feature. Sessions are by appointment with the client organization. The maximum number of participants per session is 15. The maximum duration per session is 2 hours.

Sessions are facilitated through a Zoom meeting or any social media application with a videocall conferencing feature. Sessions are by appointment with the client organization. The maximum number of participants per session is 30. The maximum duration per session is 1 hour. Additional fifteen minutes will be given for the online consultation with the mental health professional/advocate.

• Install a preventive mental health cum career development program in the organization/institution.
• Diagnose issues and concerns of the organization/institution regarding the career and mental health of students and/or employees.
• Implement the mandates of RA 11036 (Mental Health Act) and DOLE Department Order No. 208 (Guidelines for the Implementation of Mental Health Workplace Policies and Programs for the Private Sector).
• Facilitate appropriate interventions for ensuring an optimal level of academic performance and Key Performance Areas/Indices of identified individuals.

An initial consultation is free using the results of the individual mental health inventory. For the specific level of consultation, investment depends on the scope of services to be rendered.

• Diagnosis of Needs, Issues, and Concerns
• The setting of goals and targets
• Development of Intervention Program
• Implementation of Intervention Program
• Evaluation of Intervention Program
• Integration in the systems, processes, policies, and procedures

• The mode of consultation can be any of the following.

  • Organizational level of Consultation (Policies and Procedures)
    • Content Expert and/or Process Expert
      • Provisional
      • Prescriptive
      • Collaborative
      • Mediational
    • Behavioral level of Consultation (Performance Outcomes/Risks)
      • Content Expert and/or Process Expert
        • Provisional
        • Prescriptive
        • Collaborative
        • Mediational

All consultation activities will be done either online or face-to-face, only the latter would be possible once the ECQ/GCQ is lifted.

All consultants are PRC Registered and Licensed Mental Health Professionals with advanced degrees, training, and certifications in the practice of counseling, psychological assessment, and psychosocial interventions (career and mental health).