An information pack for staff about healthy living services in Manchester for clients to access. This pack includes services and useful websites and is regularly updated. It is not available as a hard copy but can be downloaded.

Health Promotion Resources Pack

Updated: 25/01/13

306kB

Voluntary Sector Mental Health Services. Directory June 2012.
NHS Manchester. For services provided by Manchester Mental Health and Social Care NHS Trust see www.mhsc.nhs.uk/services.aspx

Voluntary Sector Mental Health Services Directory 2012

Updated: 05/10/12

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This service is currently reviewing its publication and distribution of self help literature. There remains a high level of demand for printed copy in addition to electronic formats. The service will develop a fresh series of guides to cover the most common mental health conditions likely to be identified by doctors.

This is a developing new range and new titles will be added. They are written and trialled locally by a group comprising mental health specialists, public health specialists and a GP.

• Improve Your Mood, a guide to managing low mood and depression
• From Distress to De-stress, a guide to dealing with stress and anxiety, especially the physical effects.
• Unwind your Mind, a guide to managing anxiety and worry, especially persistent and difficult thoughts.
• Work and Mental Health, a guide to managing work whilst you have a mental health problem

We would be interested in your views on these guides as we hope to continue to develop them to make sure they are most useful. Please send any comments to Douglas Inchbold.

Copies of these guides are available free of charge for Manchester organisations who feel they will be useful for those they serve.

For 5 Areas guides, each order will be limited to 20 copies of each title in the first instance.

We have no delivery system so you will need to collect copies from our offices at Victoria Mill, Lower Vickers St. Miles Platting. Manchester M40 7LJ. (Ground floor, around the left hand side of the mill).

Improve your Mood	Updated: 03/04/13	1.5MB
Unwind your Mind	Updated: 03/04/13	3.3MB
Work and Mental Health	Updated: 03/04/13	2.7MB
From Distress to De-Stress	Updated: 03/04/13	1MB
How to Obtain the Guides	Updated: 03/04/13	566KB

5 Areas Booklets
These brief and accessible guides address a range of common problems with key points to help resolve them based in cognitive behavioural (CBT) approaches.

They have proved popular in recent distribution in Manchester. They do not talk about mental health as such and will be useful for a far wider range of people than those who have an identified mental health condition.

We stock nine titles in a series called “Living Life to the Full; Little Books”. A reader may find that more than one title together is useful, depending on the problems they are experiencing.

They may also find it useful to use the Living Life to the Full website, a free interactive CBT based programme to help overcome stress, worry and low mood. www.livinglifetothefull.com

For more information about the full five area range of guides, see www.fiveareas.com

For online access, see www.fiveareasonline.com

The service also will distribute the following;

1. Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Trust Self Help Guides
   These have been distributed in large volume in Manchester since 2004 and remain popular. We are, however, planning to stop stocking these in future.
   
   These guides can be viewed and printed from www.ntw.nhs.uk/pic/selfhelp. Printed copies are also available from this source. Our remaining stock is still available for collection at our offices at Victoria Mill in Miles Platting. The attached order form will indicate what is still available.
   
   PDF files of translated guides not published by Northumberland are available below, some of which are available as printed copies
   
2. Guides published by this service. These are available using the same order form as above.
   
   
   

   Depression and Low Mood	Updated: 04/06	192KB
   Arabic	Updated: 04/06	616KB
   Bengali	Updated: 04/06	736KB
   Somali	Updated: 04/06	204KB
   Urdu	Updated: 04/06	740KB

   
   

   Stress and Anxiety	Updated: 01/06	252KB
   Arabic	Updated: 01/06	536KB
   Hindi	Updated: 01/06	680KB
   Somali	Updated: 01/06	420KB
   Urdu	Updated: 01/06	632KB

   
   

This new resource aims to support people who have a long term physical health condition such as diabetes or coronary heart disease with information about how to look after their emotional wellbeing. This information for the general public explains how people who have a long term condition are more vulnerable to mental health problems because of a range of factors, how to recognise the signs and where to get help.

Mental Health & Long Term Conditions

Updated: 04/03/08

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A new brief guide to dementia providing introductory information for people with dementia and their carers. Written by Admiral Nurses and the Alzheimer's Society in Manchester, it provides useful local contacts for support and more information. Leaflet copies are available from this service.

A brief guide giving more information about your emotional wellbeing during pregnancy including what help is out there and how you can look after yourself.

Food & Mood A Self Help Guide Booklet

A DVD and workshop resource for organisations working wth young men in schools, youth groups and support settings.

The pack includes:

• A short film produced by young men.
• A resource pack which includes; group work exercises
  and activities.

Price:

£30 including postage & packaging.

This pack is free to organisations operating in Manchester. There is a £50 charge including postage and packaging for those outside Manchester.

Orders must be accompanied by cheque or postal order and made payable to Manchester Primary Care Trust.

HIRL Contact Information

Orders must be accompanied by cheque or postal order and made payable to Manchester Primary Care Trust.

HIRL Contact Information

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