Helping Hands: How to Help Someone Else Cope with Mental Health Problems by Tim Watkins

Helping Hands: How to Help Someone Else Cope with Mental Health Problems by Tim Watkins

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.

Tim Watkins is a life coach, trainer and a founder-director of Life Surfing, a Cardiff-based community interest company established to help prevent mental illness and to promote wellbeing. Tim Watkins graduated from the University of Wales College Cardiff with a first class honours economics degree in 1990. Between 1990 and 1997 he worked as a policy research officer for the Welsh Consumer Council where he researched and wrote a range of policy reports including In Deep Water, an investigation into problems in the aftermath of the North Wales (Towyn) floods of 1990, and Quality of Life and Quality of Service, an investigation into the promotion of quality of life in residential homes for older people. Following a severe and enduring episode of depression between 1997 and 2000, Tim Watkins began working for the charity Depression Alliance, running its Wales office, and steering it to becoming an independent charity in its own right in 2005. He continued to run the charity (which re-launched as Journeys in 2007) until 2010. During that time, the Welsh Government appointed him to sit on the Health & Wellbeing Council for Wales and the Burrows-Greenwell Review of Mental Health in Wales. He also played a key role in developing the Healthy Minds at Work project, during which he wrote Taking Control, an audio self-help book for people affected by depression, and oversaw the development of the award-winning Depression Busting self-management programme for people affected by depression. In October 2010, along with Julia Kaye and Paul Clarke, Tim Watkins formed Life Surfing CIC as a vehicle to address public wellbeing in people experiencing stress or whose life circumstances put them at risk of developing mental illness, and in people experiencing mild/moderate common mental illnesses such as anxiety and depression.

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ISBN 13	9781909093126
ISBN 10	1909093122
Title	Helping Hands: How to Help Someone Else Cope with Mental Health Problems
Author	Tim Watkins
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	RPX Empire Ltd
Year published	2012-10-25
Number of pages	102
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