Mental health articles
OF mental health care and mentally ill
October, 2013
The skills of the workforce
All members of the care team have responsibilities in managing service users’ medication. The Ten Essential Shared Capabilities are areas of aptitude considered to be a requirement of all mental health workers, and these represent basic principles that underpin positive practice This framework of competencies, developed by service users, carers and practitioners, provides a blueprint […]
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Teaching medication management to practitioners
Teaching medication management to practitioners In a cluster randomised controlled trial, Gray et al. developed a medicines management training package and taught it to 60 com munity mental health nurses (CMHNs). The educational programme lasted 80 hours and was based on the Compliance Therapy Manual. Community mental health nurses were taught to deliver the intervention […]
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Developing support to our own feelings
Some form of outside support, help, or therapy is often needed for this process, and at various stages or times throughout the process. The support can come from a “companion”—a friend, a partner, f latmate, support group or enlightened relative—who can: ●share with us the difficulties of not getting the right sort of love; ●share […]
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Identify your feeling patterns
If you can recognize a particular pattern of yours, then you have a good chance of changing it. If you cannot recognize it yet, then you will not be able to change it. Try to see what patterns of thinking and feeling happen, or what takes you into a bad mood, or what you usually […]
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How to Work through Resentments
How to Work through Resentments?This is where anger at a person or situation is turned back inwards and repressed. The result is often a negative emotion like resent ment. And this tends to stick: or you get stuck with it. There is a fairly straightforward process by which one can work through resentment, but it […]
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How to Express Emotions Positively
How to Express Emotions Positively Find a safe channel to express one’s emotions The initial reservation about expressing one’s emotions can help to keep all of one’s negative feelings well locked in. However, this is also the initial “edge” that we have to get over. We do not necessarily want to open the floodgates wide, […]
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Healing the Wounded Soul
Healing the wound The first major point is to acknowledge these emotional ”deficiencies”; that they exist and they have legitimacy. We feel this way for a very valid reason, even though the feeling is perhaps a negative one. This is a really good start. We cannot work with these feelings unless we make this acknowledgement. […]
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How to Stop Negative Feelings
How to Stop Negative Feelings Working through negative feelings It is absolutely necessary to work through most or all of these negative feelings. If they did happen to arise from your parents being unable to love you in the way that you needed to be loved, then there are some inherently powerful conflicts lying under […]
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emotional expression exercises
Emotional expression Try expressing some of the safer feelings first: those of pleasure, appreciation, excitement, etc. In locking up our negative feelings, we can often also cut ourselves off from the positive ones. So dig deep, even though you are depressed, and try to express some of the easier feelings and the more pleasurable ones. […]
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