Description

This is a six week course about anxiety management. This package has been devised to attempt to address the needs of people suffering from anxiety.
The aim of the course is to provide and facilitate a therapeutic group experience, involving education and the sharing of experiences. Each session lasts for one and a half hours. Two staff co-facilitate the group covering aspects of anxiety and strategies for improving coping skills.
This is a recovery oriented intervention and is a stand alone module in skills training to suuport recovery.
 

Organisation

South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust
Mental Health Day Hospital Ards Hospital Church Street
Newtownards
BT23 4AS

Contact details

Paul Blackstock and Joan Speed
Social Worker and Occupational Therapist

Tel: 0289151 0115

Project areas

• Working in partnership or collaboration with others
• Quaility of life improvement

Project target

• Patients

Timeframe

Date start: 01 January 1990

Project ongoing: No, the project has concluded.

Objectives

To define anxiety and share knowledge of its effects.
To improve group members awareness so that they can develop insight into situations which contribute to or trigger their anxiety.

To discuss ways and develop strategies to reduce, eliminate or cope with triggers or unpleasant symptoms.

To empower people to take control over their emotional responses and normalise rather than medicalise stress and snxiety to promote empowerment.

To introduce various relaxation techniques.
 

Outcomes

Planned

To enable group members to be active participants in their own recovery.
To facilitate the exploration of alternative coping skills.

To educate regarding greater understanding of what anxiety is?

How it impacts on the individual physically, psychologically, behaviourally and emotionally.

Challenging automatic negative thinking and exploring individual thinking styles.

Relapse prevention.
 

Actual

From continual individual evaluations, group members have acknowledged many changes in their ability to cope.

Key learning

Outcomes

Not available

Actual

Not available

Project evaluation

Has the project been evaluated: Yes, the project has been evaluated.

Is an evaluation report available: Yes, an evaluation report is available.

Project enhancements

Not available

Project gains

Not available

Project developments

Not available