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Next Supportive Family Training Course |
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Written by Jeffrey Breslaw
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010 07:56 |
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The next Supportive Family Training course starts on the 28th September and runs every Tuesday for 11 weeks.
Venue and times: Avenue House, East End Road, Finchley N3 3QE. 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Further details of the course can be found here.
If you have any questions or would like to attend this course please contact Jeffrey Breslaw.
Tel: 0208 906 1666, email
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5 steps to grow your support network |
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Written by Administrator
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Saturday, 05 June 2010 08:30 |
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How do you expand your support network?Here are 5 steps:
Turn to others in your extended family for assistance. Ask them to take some partial responsibility for the care of your ill relative.
Find community supports to allow for your own respite. Consider friends, church social groups and now local authorities. Try to enlarge your network to identify caring people in your world whom you can turn to when you need a break. One of the worst consequences of stigma in mental illness is the way that it isolates families, and makes them feel disloyal when they divulge their ill families problems in order to ask help for themselves.
Continue to educate yourself. Knowledge is power.
Get supportive family consultation for yourself i.e. professional counselling for families.
Massage, meditation, prayer, exercise and relaxation tapes all help. Would any reader have other tips to add to this list? Please share them with us by replying to this post! |
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