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You Matter but what does mattering really mean?
Mattering is a psychological need that serves as a protective factor against social isolation and loneliness. In this project, we interviewed individuals with severe mental illness to hear their stories of times they felt like they did or did not matter and understand what mattering means to them.
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The Social Enhancement Workbook
This is a guide for consumers, case managers, and support personnel to increase social activity participation in community settings. This step-by-step guide has been tested in various mental health and psychosocial programs and can be useful for groups and individuals.
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Sexuality and Intimacy with Dr. Julie Tennille
In this video Dr. Tennille sits down and discusses sexuality and intimacy as it applies to persons with mental health conditions. We’re partnering with Dr. Tennille to develop a toolkit to help providers discuss sex and intimacy.
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Sexuality and Intimacy Toolkit
This toolkit helps direct service personnel discuss intimacy and sexuality with people with mental health conditions. Informed by Motivational Interviewing, it includes exercises, evaluation forms, resources, and references for trainers.
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Promoting Consumer Community Integration: For Family Members and Supporters
Family members and other supporters of people with mental illnesses can play a key role in the treatment and recovery process for people with psychiatric disabilities: this tool provides suggestions for family members and friends about the ways they can provide encouragement, foster hope and support self-determination.
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Natural Supports: Developing a Personal Support System
Natural supports relationships with family, friends, colleagues at work, and the casual contacts everyone makes in daily life are all part of everyday natural supports. This documents provides guidelines to help consumers build their own network of natural supports in the community.
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Make Time for fun: Enjoy Activities with Loved Ones
This resource offers activity ideas you can do with loved ones and tips for making them happen. Compiled by our Recreational Therapists, this resource will help to ensure any outing goes off without a hitch.
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Love Like Everyone Else
Mental health doesn’t negate the need for love and intimacy. This document celebrates intimate partnerships of those with mental health diagnoses, emphasizing their importance for wellness. The experiences shared here highlight the ways they give and receive love and support, just like everyone else.
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Intimate Relationship Roles and Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities
This brief document provides consumers and staff with a framework in which to begin talking together about the issue of intimate relationships and the importance of managing romantic involvements and the development of long-term partnerships with significant others in a responsible and productive fashion.
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Family Leisure Toolkit
The Family Leisure Toolkit educates and provides ideas on how to jump-start your leisure lifestyle as a family. It presents benefits of family recreational activities, suggestions on how to use family leisure to build strong bonds, and a guide for planning activities.
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Enhancing Family Leisure Fact-sheet: Provider
This fact sheet provides providers with a resource that defines family leisure and explains the various types of leisure and their benefits. The fact sheet provides readers with an opportunity to learn about initiating conversations about family leisure and explains why participating in family leisure is important.
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Enhancing Family Leisure Fact-sheet: Consumer
This fact sheet gives consumers a resource that defines family leisure and explains the various types of leisure and their benefits. This document gives an opportunity to learn about initiating conversations about family leisure and explains why family leisure is important.
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Date Nights: Things to do with the Ones You Love
This resource offers different activities that consumers can do when heading out for a special night! The topics are broad with examples in each to allow for the reader to fine tune the outing for themselves.
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Circles of Support: Brochure
This brochure provides an overview of the Circle of Support approach, in which consumers family members, friends, and service providers regularly meet to assist the consumer in meeting his/her goals.
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Addressing the Intimacy Interests of People with Mental Health Conditions: Acknowledging Consumer Desires, Provider Discomforts, and System Denial
This monograph addresses the intimacy concerns of individuals with mental health conditions. It reviews mental health research, barriers faced by those with mental health conditions, and practitioner discomfort with discussing intimacy. The monograph provides initial recommendations and aims to start a national dialogue.
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Addressing Sexuality and Intimacy Interests
Intimacy and sexuality are important for many individuals’ recovery, despite being taboo topics that can be uncomfortable. This monograph aims to improve communication by recommending policy and program changes for mental health administrators & training for direct service personnel.
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Relationships Matter: Stories from Individuals with Lived Experience
Reciprocal relationships benefit people with mental health conditions, but their day-to-day experiences are often unknown. This document is the first in a series uplifting their voices and sharing survey responses on giving and receiving support. It also suggests strategies to encourage reflection.