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It's Good To Talk - An Online Guide to Counselling and Psychotherapy
Download Information Sheet - 2 Mental The Impact of Emotional Distress on Health
Sometimes it's difficult to say what's on your mind and talking to a therapist can help you cope with difficulty and make positive changes in your life.
It's Good To Talk is a site aimed at educating people about the benefits of counselling and psychotherapy and is run by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
This useful and extensive online resource helps you to understand what you can expect from the process of therapy and has been designed to help people find out more about counselling and psychotherapy.
It is especially useful for those who are considering therapy as an option for themselves or someone else.
Therapy offers you a safe, confidential place to talk about your life and anything which may be confusing, painful or uncomfortable.
It also allows you to talk with someone who is trained to listen attentively and to help you improve things.
To this end the site has extremely useful What is therapy? and FAQs sections which will answer all your questions about the therapeutic process and even has a Find a Therapist tool full of registered BACP counsellors and psychotherapists if you decide it is something which could help you.
The BACP has more than 33,500 members who work to a set of standards for therapeutic practice with further information available via its helpline on 01455 88 33 00 or via email at bacp@bacp.co.uk.
If you'd like to find out more about counselling services across Wales and how to access these services then please read our Information Sheet 2 entitled The Impact of Emotional Distress on Health which has been produced with the help of the BACP.
Our Information Sheets are part of our aim to improve mental health services and have been developed to provide valuable information, training and support tools on primary care mental health in Wales with all our sheets available to read and download from within our Information Sheets section.
WaMH in PC Annual Conference 2013 Agenda
This year's annual conference offers free training with an agenda packed full of workshops aimed at improving your communications skills during mental health consultations.
Our 2013 conference called ‘The Really Useful Conference’ and will be held at Cheltenham Racecourse on Wednesday 9 October.
Run in conjunction with primhe (Primary Care Mental Health and Education) it will look at how the well-being of staff and patients can be improved in general practice.
As part of our agenda we're offering 24 free CPR training places on a first-come-first-served basis subject to the payment of your delegate fee.
We're also offering a discounted early bird delegate fee until 26th July for £105 with places charged at £125 per person after this date.
On the day the agenda will be split up into a series of workshops led by professional trainers who will be offering 10 winning tips primary care mental health practitioners can use to improve their 10-minute consultations. They'll cover the following subjects:
- Mindfulness
- EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
- NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming)
- Mental Health Promotion
- Bathe Techniques
- Emotional Freedom Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Positive Psychology
- Safeguarding
Our target audience is wide ranging but our focus is to bring mental health practitioners and professionals, policy makers, agencies and organisations together so they can work in collaboration.
Our annual conferences provide excellent opportunities for you to network, meet new people, form new alliances and take part in some exciting, thought-provoking and informative plenary sessions and workshops.
Fees are payable by cheque to "RCGP Wales" or by invoice upon request with further details available from our Project Manager Lesley Hills via email at lhills@rcgp.org.uk or on 029 2050 4516.
WaMH in PC Annual Conference Places Available
Places are now available for our forthcoming annual conference which is part of our work to promote primary mental health care issues and improve the profile of mental health services.
This year's conference will be run in conjunction with primhe (Primary Care Mental Health and Education) and is called ‘The Really Useful Conference’.
The event will be held at Cheltenham Racecourse on Wednesday 9 October and will look at how the well-being of staff and patients can be improved in general practice.
We are currently offering a discounted early bird delegate fee which expires on 26th July for £105 - after this date fees rise to £125 per person.
Our target audience is wide ranging but our focus is to bring mental health practitioners and professionals, policy makers, agencies and organisations together so they can work in collaboration.
Our annual conferences provide excellent opportunities for you to network, meet new people, form new alliances and take part in some exciting, thought-provoking and informative plenary sessions and workshops.
We will be publishing an agenda for the conference later this week so please look out for the details within our News & Events pages.
Fees are payable by cheque to "RCGP Wales" or by invoice upon request with further details available from our Project Manager Lesley Hills via email at lhills@rcgp.org.uk or on 029 2050 4516.
