Condition Management Programmes

BLAST - Building Life & Skills programme
A life style coaching programme for groups of up to 20 people.

The BLAST programme provides an early intervention, which avoids the stigma of formal mental health interventions. The programme contributes to a stepped care model for mental health and promotes positive attitudes and life skills. It aims to prevent participants joining the cycle of worklessness, negativity and poor health experience which is at the root of many health and social inequalities. Central to the programme is delivery of the skills which enable self management and personal efficacy.

The psycho-educational life skills course aims to:
	teach self management techniques to people with low level anxiety and depression
	encourage, motivate and empower people to return to meaningful activity
	to be a very ‘first step’ in a step care model of community mental health

The programme objectives are to:
	encourage participants to take responsibility for the management of their own conditions
	learn to manage and control symptoms
	feel confident that improved health is within their reach

Clients will undertake personal goal setting and through action planning consider detailed next-steps planning.

The programme includes:
Cognitive-behaviour therapy	The exclusion criteria:
Relaxation	Patients with psychotic illness
Guided imagery	Patients who actively abuse street drugs or alcohol
Education	Patients with a known personality disorder

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