Mental Health Essentials
Level 7 pathway to triage safely, spot red flags, and support patients confidently.
Confident mental health consultations
Structured triage, crisis-aware signposting, and safe prescribing to manage common mental health presentations.
About Level 7
Master’s-level thinking for safer mental health care
Level 7 demands critical appraisal, reflective practice, and evidence-based decision-making. Build portfolio-ready consultations that demonstrate risk assessment, documentation quality, and therapeutic reasoning.
Risk frameworks
Suicide and self-harm risk formulations with clear escalation thresholds.
Portfolio evidence
Structured notes, safety plans, and reflective entries for DPP sign-off.
Course format
- Bite-sized e-learning mapped to Level 7 outcomes with critical appraisal of guidance.
- Live case webinars on low mood, anxiety, insomnia, and crisis escalation.
- Templates for risk assessment, safety plans, and follow-up calls.
- Mentor feedback on two consultations plus reflective accounts.
What you will cover
Key mental health prescribing topics—expand each item to see what’s inside the pathway.
How do I triage common mental health presentations?
Use structured scripts for low mood, anxiety, insomnia, and neurodivergent presentations; capture risk, duration, and impact.
What are the crisis red flags and escalation pathways?
Identify self-harm/suicide risk, safeguarding concerns, psychosis, and when to activate 111/999 or urgent mental health teams.
How do I choose and review treatments safely?
Shared decision-making for pharmacological and non-pharmacological options; deprescribing conversations and side-effect monitoring.
How should I plan follow-up and relapse prevention?
Set review intervals, track relapse signatures, and document safety netting with clear next steps.
How do I handle sensitive conversations?
Trauma-informed approaches, consent, capacity, and involving carers where appropriate.
What documentation and audit evidence is expected?
Structured notes, safety plans, outcome measures (PHQ-9/GAD-7), and audit trails for quality assurance.
Clinic scenario
Young adult with escalating anxiety, poor sleep, and intermittent suicidal ideation.
- Build a risk formulation and agree a safety plan.
- Choose first-line options and document shared decisions.
- Set time-bound review and escalation triggers.