What is Mental Health First Aid?

No one can guarantee anyone completely being without mental disturbance throughout lifelong.   Although mental health first aid does not play a major role in intervention nor diagnostic process, it enhance one's insight towards mental health.
 
     Mental health first aid is the help provided to a person developing a mental health problem or in a mental health crisis, until appropriate professional treatment is received or until the crisis resolves (Kitchener & Jorm, 2002).

 

     Mental health first aid strategies are taught in training programs developed by Mental Health First Aid (MHFA), a national not-for-profit health promotion charity focused on mental health training and research. ( quoted from https://mhfa.com.au/, 2014)