Helping Hands: How to Help Someone Else Cope with Mental Health Problems - Paperback

by Tim Watkins (Author)

If someone close to you has mental health problems, you need to read this book! Most people do nothing when a relative, friend or colleague has mental health problems. The reason is not a lack of care or compassion. it is simply that most of use are frightened of doing or saying the wrong thing. Unfortunately, doing or saying nothing is the wrong thing. It leaves the person you care about felling isolated and unloved. So what will you do? Helping Hands: How to help someone else cope with mental health problems uses an easy to learn, evidence-based 4-stage approach that you can employ to help those that you care about. In addition, Helping Hands introduces you to mental illnesses and the treatments that are available for them, and provides case studies that show you how the symptoms and warning signs manifest in day to day life. Helping Hands also sets out what is meant by wellbeing, and shows you how encouraging the use of self-management techniques will lead to recovery.