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The crisis project workbook: guidance on setting up innovative mental health crisis projects led by service users and survivors
- Author:
- MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 101p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This workbook is based on the experience of seven voluntary sector projects that were part of the Mental Health Foundation Adult Crisis Service Development Programme, which ran from 1997-2002. As part of its Adult Crisis programme, the Mental Health Foundation funded seven community-based crisis services in England: two residential services, two safe houses and three telephone helplines. This workbook highlights key issues to be aware of when establishing a crisis service and suggests some of the ways they can be tackled. It uses several methods of presenting ideas and information to help develop projects. It includes: examples of experiences of the seven Mental Health Foundation-funded crisis projects to demonstrate the many issues that need to be considered when setting up a crisis project; checklists to assist identification of what has been achieved and what still needs to be done; and group exercises and handouts to stimulate thinking and debate on key issues and to assist decision-making.
Something inside so strong: strategies for surviving mental distress
- Author:
- MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 108p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines self help strategies for people with mental health problems. The first half of the book is a series of personal accounts from people living through mental distress; the second a series of articles on individual coping strategies, with reference to issues such as working with the media; voluntary self help organisations; black and minority ethnic users; crisis cards and advance directives; self management with hearing voices and manic depression; and using complementary remedies.