In-Sight
In-Sight training resource
Author: Dr Heather Johnson Straughan
Pages: 338pp
Format: Ringbound resource with CD-rom
ISBN: 978 1 84196 237 5
Price: £95.00
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A structured session based training pack to facilitate the recovery process for people who have experienced bipolar disorder or depression. Providing information on key internal and external components to provide a personalised coping strategy based on professional therapies as well as lived experience.

Key features:

A comprehensive guide for self-management including coping strategies, well-being action plan and relapse drills; includes full training materials on CR-rom.

About the training Material:

The group training is made up of 16 weekly three-hour sessions, with an additional three-hour group follow-up session after four weeks.

Information on medication and the disorder are included. The training encourages the trainer to recognise their mood, cognitive and behavioural changes and situate themselves regularly on a behaviour-thoughts-mood scale, as well as constructing a life events chart, combining mood fluctuations from the scale with events. Coping strategies and relapse drills are also included in the training.

The training includes with trainees completing a well-being action plan and self-commitment, which recaps learning from stressful life events and symptoms of highs and lows, a checklist of best coping strategies, medication adjustment, development of life skills such as good communication, anger management, assertiveness and challenging negative thoughts, as well as healthy lifestyle components. It outlines the nature of the support participants find beneficial in order to achieve best coping and continued stability.

Contents include:
  • ·    Getting to know yourself - your moods and stressful situations.
  • ·    How your mood affects you.
  • ·    Coping with highs and lows.
  • ·    Routine and balance.
  • ·    Medication - increasing your chances of staying well.
  • ·    Being socially connected and supported.
  • ·    Staying healthy.
  • ·    Choosing and achieving your goal.
  • ·    Communication assertively.
  • ·    Managing the challenges
  • ·    Overcoming problems.
  • ·    Planning your well-being
  • ·    Course review and advance directive.

The packs contains: CD-Rom containing trainer’s notes, handouts and weekly exercises, ringbinder with colour laminated dividers

Vital information for: Psychologists, managers, mental health workers, nurses

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