Wellness Self-Management for the COVID-19 Crisis

Many practitioners and recipients are familiar with Wellness Self-Management (WSM), a curriculum-based clinical practice designed to assist adults to effectively manage serious mental health problems. WSM lessons focus on recovery, mental health wellness, relapse prevention and more. 

In response to the COVID-19 crisis, six new WSM lessons have been developed which can be used remotely (or face-to-face) in individual and group meetings. The topics are:

• Focus on the virus, symptoms and how to protect yourself

Lesson 2: Why is It Important to Understand Our Stress during the COVID-19 Crisis? (PDF)

• Focus on stress, learn why it is important to identify our worries, and why this is especially important now

   

Lesson 3: Identifying Your Personal Signs of Stress during the COVID-19 Crisis (PDF)

• Focus on signs that we are under too much stress, and how to recognize our own stress reactions

   

Lesson 4: Coping with COVID-19: What works?  What doesn’t? (PDF)

• Focus on ways of coping that may be helpful to you, and considering your own coping plan

Lesson 5: Being Connected with Other People is More Important Now than Ever (PDF)

• Focus on social support, why it is important – especially now, and steps you can take to make sure that you have the social support that you want

Lesson 6: Staying Physically Healthy During the COVID-19 Crisis (PDF)

• Focus on having a healthy lifestyle generally, things to do to stay healthy during this crisis, and the connection between a healthy lifestyle and mental health recovery

Wellness Self-Management COVID-19 Workbook
Wellness Self-Management Workbook - English (Other languages available: Click here and scroll down)

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