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 This course is designed to help you learn:
• Mental health recovery concepts and skills
• How to develop a Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)
The course includes four lessons (see lessons below) with reading assignments, projects, activities, and discussion with the instructor. Successful completion is based on the instructor's assessment of the participant’s ability to understand and use the concepts, skills, and techniques described in the course texts. The course instructor is an experienced recovery educator.
You can expect to spend four to five hours per week for four weeks reading and completing assignments. You can complete the course at your own pace. In areas where several people are taking the course, participants have met together, usually once a week. They discuss and work on the assignments together. We encourage you to consider this option.
Who is Eligible?
The course is open to anyone who wants to increase their understanding of WRAP and mental health recovery concepts and skills.
Books
Three books are used for the course. You order and pay for these separately at www.MentalHealthRecovery.com or by contacting:
Copeland Books
PO Box 301 Phone: 802-425-3660
West Dummerston, VT 05357
E-mail: copelandbooks@gmavt.net
The books are:
1. Copeland, M. E. 1992 and 2001. The Depression Workbook 2nd edition 2001. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications. Revised 2001.
2. Copeland, M. E. 1994. Living Without Depression and Manic Depression. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications.
3. Copeland, M.E. 1997, revised 2002. Wellness Recovery Action Plan. W. Dummerston, VT: Peach Press. Revised 2001.
Course Lessons
Lesson #1
Study of underlying recovery concepts, including hope, personal responsibility, education, self-advocacy, peer support, family support, and professional support. Looking at possible medical causes of psychiatric symptoms and at medication management.
Lesson #2
Exploring the use of simple, safe, self-help wellness tools. These are tools that people who experience psychiatric symptoms have found to be useful in temporarily relieving symptoms and for maintaining wellness. These include: peer counseling, focusing exercises, relaxation, stress reduction, journaling, controlling stimulation, dietary considerations, exercise, sleep, and daily planning.
Lesson #3
Developing a Wellness Recovery Action Plan that includes: 1) daily maintenance plan, 2) identifying and responding to triggers, 3) identifying and responding to early warning signs of increased difficulty, 4) identifying those symptoms that indicate the situation has worsened and responding to those symptoms to successfully relieve them, and 4) writing an effective crisis plan or advanced directive.
Lesson #4
Specific issues that affect wellness, including changing negative thoughts to positive ones, building self-esteem, suicide prevention, reducing the effects of trauma, and developing a lifestyle that enhances wellness. | |
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