Illness Self-Management
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Illness Self-Management Tools
CPI — Wellness Self-Management (WSM) Workbook
“The Center for Practice Innovation at Columbia Psychiatry, New York Psychiatric Institute’s the WSM workbook consists of 57 lessons organized into three major chapters addressing recovery, mental health wellness and relapse prevention, and the relationship between a healthy lifestyle and recovery. Each lesson follows a similar format beginning with important information about the topic, followed by a personalized worksheet, and ends with an action step designed to assist participants to continue learning and to apply their learning between meetings.”
Free downloads at the Center for Practice Innovation.
CPI — Wellness Self-Management Plus (WSM+) Workbook
“The Center for Practice Innovation at Columbia Psychiatry, New York Psychiatric Institute’s the WSM+ workbook is a version of the original WSM workbook that has been designed for individuals who are simultaneously dealing with mental health and substance use problems. It consists of 57 lessons organized into three major chapters addressing recovery; mental health wellness, substance use harm reduction and relapse prevention; and the relationship between a healthy lifestyle and recovery. Each lesson follows a similar format beginning with important information about the topic, followed by a personalized worksheet, and ends with an action step designed to assist participants to continue learning and to apply their learning between meetings.”
Free downloads at the Center for Practice Innovation.
Psychiatric Advance Directives (PADS)
“Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are relatively new legal instruments that may be used to document a competent person’s specific instructions or preferences regarding future mental health treatment. Psychiatric advance directives can be used to plan for the possibility that someone may lose capacity to give or withhold informed consent to treatment during acute episodes of psychiatric illness.”
Learn more at National Resource Center on Psychiatric Advance Directives.
Illness Management and Recovery
Enhanced Illness Management and Recovery Manual
Illness management is a brand set of strategies designed to help individuals with serious mental illness collaborate with professionals, reduce their susceptibility to the illness, and cope effectively with the symptoms. Recovery occurs when people with mental illness discover, or rediscover, their strengths and abilities for pursuing personal goals and develop a sense of identity that allows them to grow beyond their mental illness.
Pathways to Recovery
“Pathways to Recovery is a tool to help people move forward in mental health recovery. It is an extensive self-help workbook. The workbook orients people to recovery, helps them to identify their personal strengths and dreams, and refocus on remaining positive sources of identity and a life beyond being a person with a psychiatric disability or a full-time consumer of mental health services. It helps people think about and plan how to live a full life, despite their psychiatric history or problems.”
Purchase at Amazon.
Recovery Library
“The Recovery Library is a Pat Deegan & Associates, LLC production. It’s made for people in recovery, by people in recovery. We like to think of it as a conspiracy of hope. It includes thousands of resources, videos and articles on the lived-experience of recovery and wellness.”
Learn more at Recovery Library.
Recovery Workbook I
“The Recovery Workbook: Practical Coping and Empowerment Strategies for People with Psychiatric Disabilities is a resource for professionals, family members, and consumers / survivors to help people who experience psychiatric disability begin the process of recovery. Psychiatric illness — and the stigma that surrounds it — can be devastating. People are left feeling profoundly disconnected from themselves, from others, from their environments, and from meaning or purpose in life. Recovery is a empowerment process that can help rebuild these important personal, social, environmental, and spiritual connections; and help confront the devastating effects of stigma. Purpose: To teach awareness and understanding of the recovery process. To teach coping and empowerment strategies for recovery. To provide the information and skills needed to strengthen the recovery process, to cope more creatively, and to live life more fully.”
Purchase at Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Store.
Recovery Workbook II
The Recovery Workbook II: Connectedness is the next step for leaders and students who have experience with The Recovery Workbook: Practical Coping and Empowerment Strategies for People with Psychiatric Disability. A resource for professionals, family members, and consumers/survivors, this workbook explores the relationship between connectedness and personal growth in the recovery process for people with psychiatric disability. Four aspects of connectedness are addressed: connectedness with oneself, with others, with our environments, and with a larger meaning or purpose in life. Knowledge, skills, and values related to connectedness are presented.”
Purchase at Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Store.
WRAP
“The Wellness Recovery Action Plan or WRAP, is a self-designed prevention and wellness process that anyone can use to get well, stay well and make their life the way they want it to be. It was developed in 1997 by a group of people who were searching for ways to overcome their own mental health issues and move on to fulfilling their life dreams and goals.“
Learn more at Mental Health Recovery.
