Mental Health Practitioner for Pharmacists

Develop Understanding and Skills to Guide Meaningful Conversations

Pharmacists have become frontline workers when it comes to healthcare, inclusive of mental health. While individuals and families may see a practitioner on an annual or as-needed basis, they visit pharmacies on a more routine cadence. Pharmacists help customers understand how to achieve safe and effective symptom relief using pharmaceuticals, but they also enter into conversations around larger mental health issues like depression, anxiety, substance use disorder, and suicide. Psych Hub helps pharmacists feel more informed about and prepared to discuss these issues. Pharmacists will:

Gain knowledge about mental health symptoms, diagnoses, and evidence-based treatment methods, so they can better support the people they serve.

Discover practical ways to engage with clients around mental health issues in the pharmacy setting.

Develop a more holistic approach to pharmaceutical care that supports mental wellness.

Learn how to identify and reduce the risk of substance use disorder, both with individuals and prescribers.

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Courses to Help Pharmacists Engage in

Mental Health Support

Pharmaceuticals can be life-saving tools in the treatment of mental health symptoms, but they often bring up questions for those who use them. The best mental health outcomes are tied to medication in conjunction with therapy. Those who choose not to engage in therapy may benefit from less formal conversations with pharmacists, who can be a vital resource in addressing concerns and guiding the safe and effective use of prescription drugs, or going beyond medication to discuss broader issues of mental wellness. Our courses educate pharmacists about mental health issues and interventions so they can provide informed, compassionate support.

Counseling on access to lethal means

This course teaches mental health professionals, healthcare providers, and pharmacists about lethal means counseling, which helps ensure individuals can make it through suicidal crises alive and access the support they need.

Foundations in the safety planning intervention for clinicians

Learn the tools commonly used for risk screening, assessment, and stratification and effectively create personalized safety plans with clients.

Collaborative Care Model

Learn the key concepts and practices of the collaborative care model, effective administration and clinical planning strategies to implement the model, and how to analyze the required components of incorporating the collaborative care model interventions into a primary or specialist care setting.

trauma-informed care: foundations (part 1)

This course provides a foundation before learning about the principles and practice of trauma-informed care. The intended audience for this course includes the healthcare team and behavioral healthcare providers.

trauma-informed care: foundations (part 2)

This course continues the learning of trauma-informed care understanding and application that began in Trauma-Informed Care: Foundations (Part 1).

Mental Health Competency 1

Learn about mental health issues, their impact on the community, and the dangers of stigma regarding mental health.

Mental Health Competency 2: Common Conditions

Learn about techniques that may be vital in helping people who experience mental health disorders to find support in managing their symptoms.

Mental Health Competency 3

Learn about some of the most commonly used types of substances, risk and protective factors for substance use, and practical ways you can help someone find support that can lead to recovery.

Suicidal Behavior Competency

Understand the facts surrounding suicide and the best language to use when discussing it.

Diversity and Mental Health

Learn about the different types of diversity, how negative reactions to diversity affect many people's mental health, and how to promote inclusion.

Understanding and Overcoming Bias

Learn how bias impacts people's interactions with each other and techniques for overcoming this bias.

Motivational Interviewing: Communication Basics

Learn about four communication techniques utilized in the evidence-based practice of motivational interviewing. This course is for anyone who wants to build their conversational skills and become a better listener.

Fostering Resilience

Learn how to develop the skill of resilience, which can help to protect against the impacts of stress and trauma.

Safety Planning

Learn how to help someone who may be in an abusive relationship or experiencing suicidal ideation.

Helping in a Mental Health Crisis

Learn how to accurately describe signs of a mental health crisis and identify practical skills that may be used to support someone who needs help.

Supporting Provider Well-Being

Gain valuable insights on resilience in workplace settings, including navigating challenging interpersonal conflicts, managing high-stress environments, and preventing occupational burnout.

Expand Mental Health Support in the Pharmacy Setting