This planner provides detailed guidance on what a Designated Mental Health Lead needs to do, when they need to do it, and how they can achieve the best results. It gives a clear focus and checklist for each week, including spaces to add your own to-do list, and encourages reflection on the outcomes and impact of your actions on pupils' attainment and wellbeing. It also encourages a focus on your own development and self-care, with space to record what you are currently reading or listening to and one thing you are grateful for that week. In addition to the termly and weekly plans, the book provides short briefs on key aspects of the role, including how to work effectively with teachers, the HR team, the DSL, governors, the pastoral team, Mental Health Support Teams and parents. It is an invaluable resource for all DMHLs tackling the 39 academic weeks.

“Both timely and critical for recovery-oriented practice, this book provides practitioners with the focused, essential knowledge and skills to be truly person-centered and recovery-oriented when supporting an individual’s recovery journey. Dulmus and Nisbet have provided the field with an overdue practical resource. Making the recovery planner’s best practice individual recovery plan format available on Website is brilliant, and every agency will want to incorporate it into its EMR.” —Linda Rosenberg, President/CEO National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare, Washington, D.C. “This is a practical and useful tool for case managers and community support workers who are assisting people with serious mental illness toward recovery. Working in a person-centered fashion is what our consumers want and expect, but to date, there have been few published tools with practical value for frontline staff. This resource is timely and relevant.” —Michael F. Hogan, PhD Hogan Health Solutions, Delmar, New York; former NYS Commissioner of Mental Health and Chair of the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, 2002–2003 Proven guidance for creating effective person-centered plans that facilitate the recovery process for individuals with serious mental illness Recent national and international mental health policy is promoting service delivery models that incorporate person-centered and recovery-oriented approaches, in which individuals are in the lead role, defining their own goals for their individualized recovery plans. Person-Centered Recovery Planner for Adults with Serious Mental Illness provides mental health practitioners with a useful resource to implement person-centered planning within a recovery framework when working with individuals with a serious mental illness. Providing a succinct overview of the historical roots, philosophy, and practice of person-centered recovery, Person-Centered Recovery Planner for Adults with Serious Mental Illness is organized around the three stages of recovery—Beginnings, Moving Forward, and Leaving Your Practitioner Behind—yet still allows both the individual and practitioner to revisit any of the three stages during the ebb and flow of an individual’s recovery journey. Sample recovery plans are included, covering the individual’s status, personal priorities, short-term objectives, and recovery steps, and are organized around common recovery goals including: Self-advocacy Family relationships Health and wellness Community involvement Stress management Relapse prevention Personal crisis planning Transportation Social relationships Meaningful activities Life skills A companion Website provides all of the plans found in the book in an easily customizable word-processing format. Person-Centered Recovery Planner for Adults with Serious Mental Illness assists practitioners in becoming effective person-centered facilitators and advocates for recovery that meaningfully supports individuals in achieving their hopes and dreams.

The flexible format of The Severe and Persistent Mental Illness Treatment Planner, 2nd Edition enables you to choose between evidence based and traditional “best practice” treatment approaches for your patients. Fully revised to meet your needs as a mental health professional working in today’s long-term care facilities, this time-saving resource contains over 1,000 rewritten treatment goals, objectives, and interventions, plus space for recording specific treatment plan options. This guide is organized around 31 behaviorally based issues, from employment problems and family conflicts, to financial needs and homelessness, to intimate relationship conflicts and social anxiety.

The 2018 Therapist Planner is a customized 12-month planner for mental health professionals and students. This planner includes SMART Goals, monthly goals, CEU tracker, ICD-10 codes, psychotropic medication list, self-care goals and more. An added bonus to The Therapist Planner is an appointment book to schedule your sessions.

This book lays out an intuitive and practical approach to mental health and wellbeing that any school can adopt to transform their mental health support for students. With a focus on providing staff with practical tools on a limited budget, the book helps schools make a real difference to student mental health. It sets out a roadmap for staff to create robust mental health support for students without requiring qualifications in psychology or counselling. It covers key areas including staff training, creating safe spaces for wellbeing and how to harness the support of parents and the local community. It also includes practical advice for addressing concerns such as stress, self-harm and body image. From small, everyday improvements that foster a culture of mental wellbeing to whole school campaigns, this book shows how to embed mental health at the heart of a school's philosophy.

This new guide presents a new model for helping clients achieve balanced and healthy financial lives- called integrated financial planning. It combines the interior, emotional aspects of finance with exterior financial knowledge and provides the advisor with an expanded set of tools for working with clients to create and maintain financial health. Facilitating Financial Health integrates the fields of psychotherapy, coaching, and financial planning, equipping financial professionals with techniques to enhance their effectiveness by working with both the exterior and interior aspects of a client s financial health. Integrated financial planning encourages you to think beyond the traditional boundaries of your practice and to serve clients far more effectively. Includes a "Decision Tree" with guidelines for deciding when it is appropriate for planners to work with client's interior issues themselves and when it is appropriate to refer clients to or partner with coaches or therapists. Praise for Facilitating Financial Health "This is an essential handbook written by some of the most experienced and eloquent experts in the new field of Integrated Financial Planning. Reading Facilitating Financial Health is like taking a multi-day workshop with master facilitators. Each chapter contains fresh insights into client challenges and practical how-to s for facilitating positive change." Susan Bradley, CFP Founder of the Sudden Money Institute "Facilitating Financial Health provides the knowledge, tools, and guidelines needed to be a catalyst of positive change. I highly recommend this book." Carol Anderson, M.S. Founder and President, Money Quotient "Facilitating Financial Health is a book to help the helpers financial professionals, debt counselors, life coaches and psychotherapists to help their clients." Richard Trachtman, Ph.D. Director, MORE Services for MOney & RElationships "If you want to help clients overcome destructive financial habits and dysfunctional belief systems, then this book will be an invaluable resource. A must read for all change agents!" David B. Yeske, CFP Past President, Financial Planning Association "This is a must read for any professional helping a client on a life or money issue, as these issues are so intertwined." Hugh Massie Author of Financial DNA: Discover Your Unique Financial Personality for a Quality Life "No financial planner, money coach, debt counselor, or money therapist should be without this valuable resource." April Lane Benson, Ph.D. Founder, Stopping Overshopping, LLC "Klontz, Kahler, and Klontz, regarded as pioneers in the field of money matters, offer us long overdue insights into helping our clients understand and change their self-destructive money behaviors. Courtney Pullen, M.A., LPC CEO, Pullen Consulting "An exciting exploration of the interface between two dynamic fields finance and psychology." Pat DeLeon, Ph.D., J.D. Former President, American Psychological Association