Self-management guidance launched to help people with long term mental health problems

Tuesday, 21 August 2012

The Mental Health Foundation, in collaboration with Welsh charity Hafal and Bipolar UK, to launch a self-management booklet, Take Control, to help people with serious mental health problems take more control of their lives.

The guide is a product of the highly successful self-management courses which ran throughout Wales.  It supports participants in setting goals for themselves and using their care and treatment plan to achieve them. To date, over 600 people with a long-term mental health diagnosis have been trained to use key skills and tools to look after themselves and help others.