Self Help

Anxiety

MindShift – coping with anxiety: Designed for teens and young adults. A free app that supports you to take charge of your anxiety through a highly individualised, personal plan. MindShift App website

NHS Inform: This self-help guide is intended for people with mild-to-moderate symptoms of anxiety. Anxiety self-help guide

 

Panic Attacks

Uncommon Knowledge provide a seven-part course on why panic attacks happen, and how to cope. Panic Attacks Course

NHS Inform: This self-help guide is intended for people with mild-to-moderate symptoms of panic, or panic attacks that started recently. This will help you understand panic and cope with panic attacks. Panic Self-help guide

 

Stress

Moodjuice have produced a booklet to understand what is stress, its causes, symptoms and skills to cope with it.  Stress Self-help Guide

TalkPlus offers workbook to provide resources and information on stress and how to manage it. You can download this book here Stress Workbook

 

Low mood

Social work toolbox offers a range of support for young person to help with their wellbeing. This guide is an empowering and informative workbook designed to help teens navigate the complexities of low mood and develop effective coping strategies. “A Young Person’s Guide to Understanding and Coping with Low Mood”

Steps2Wellbeing is a NHS website that offers a workbook which covers symptoms of depression and low mood and how to change unhelpful thoughts, feelings and behaviours using the principles of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). Lifting your mood

 

Sleep problem

Social work toolbox offers comprehensive guidance on coping with sleep problems related to mental health. How to cope with sleep problems booklet

Berkshire NHS Trust has a range of detailed resources and workbooks available to download. This workbook contains information on sleep problems, and strategies to manage this issue.  Sleep hygiene

 

  • Other helpful links to workbook or information for various mental health concerns

‘Connect Us Too’ – a new mental health resource for deaf people.

This is a series of British Sign Language videos on mental health which aim to help breakdown the stigma of mental health issues and encourage deaf people to talk to others about their mental health.  It has been produced by a partnership of organisations including Deaf Scotland, Deaf Links and See Me.

More information and links to the resource can be found by following this link https://www.alliance-scotland.org.uk/blog/news/connect-us-too-mental-health-resources-for-deaf-people/

Out Of My Head: https://youtu.be/0benfedpI-8

The Faces of Mental Health: https://youtu.be/z7eU2dc8k2Q

It’s Good To Talk: https://youtu.be/_1f1IPZ8PIo

Mental Health – Overarching: https://youtu.be/QGtwffkjDJI

 

Centre for Clinical Intervention (CCI) has produced resources  to assist in providing interventions for mental health problems such as worry, assertiveness, depression, bipolar, sleep, social anxiety, panic, self-esteem, procrastination, perfectionism, and eating disorders etc.

Looking After Yourself

 

NHS Inform has a number of mental health self-help guides including topics like anxiety, bereavement, grief, depression, chronic pain, OCD, Phobia, anger, PTSD, sleep etc.

Self Help Guides

 

Steps2Wellbeing is a free, NHS Talking Therapies service for adults  in Dorset and Southampton City. There is a list of courses, workbooks and information sheets on the webpage to help understand and manage mental health problems.

Information Workbooks