The Bolton Mental Health A to Z online Directory
The Bolton Mental Health A to Z Directory is aimed at providing sufferers, family, relatives and carers and any body else within the mental health community with useful contacts which will help them with their problems and give them the support they need. Also listed is a number of community drop in centre's specifically aimed at sufferers where a range of recreational and educational activities take place.
Jargon Buster
A list of useful Acronyms within the Bolton Mental Health Services.
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Healthwatch Bolton website. We are here to make sure your views on local health and social care services are heard. We do this by listening to what you tell us about how it feels to experience health and social care services in Bolton, then sharing that, anonymised, information with the people who are responsible for buying and providing services locally. |
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Counselling Directory is a comprehensive database of UK counsellors and psychotherapists with information on their training and experience, fees and contact details. |
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Nutritionist Resource The Nutritionist Resource team is passionate about increasing awareness of the positive benefits nutrition can have on all aspects of an individuals life. |
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Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Self-Help Resources Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) has been proven to help mental health problems. This website offers CBT self-help information, resources and tools, including therapy worksheets. |
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Move Forward Bolton The Move Forward Partners have come together to deliver variety and choice of accessible services, ensure responsiveness to service user demand and work with people based on their individual needs and aspirations, to support and promote recovery. |
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Lift your mood It only takes a couple of minutes. |
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beat is the leading UK charity for people with eating disorders and their families. beat is the working name of the Eating Disorders Association, and we continue to build on the strong foundations of the past 20 years of work. |
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Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) has been proven to help a wide variety of problems associated with our mental health. This website aims to provide you with information and CBT self-help resources. |
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This blog network is owned and operated by In A Nutshell Communications - an independent think tank formed in 1995 to provide an independent platform for mental health and social care in the United Kingdom. We are an all volunteer not for profit organisation providing a network for mental health and social care involved: INDIVIDUALS - CARERS - STAFF - VOLUNTEERS - ALLIED WORKERS and ORGANISATIONS |
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The All Sites Directory has been specifically established to provide an easy solution for web surfer's needs. We work to develop a collection of top rated sites for the categories most searched for online. If you have a a site that is related to our categories and represents the best of the web, please submit it to All Sites Directory through our Add Your Site page. |
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NHS Choices puts you in control of your healthcare. This web site has been developed to help you make choices about your health, from lifestyle decisions about things like smoking, drinking and exercise, through to the practical aspects of finding and using NHS services when you need them. |
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Time to Change. Millions of people across England live in the shadow of one of the last great taboos - mental health problems. With this new campaign they want to challenge attitudes and change behaviour around mental health problems. |
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MedicineChest has been providing health information for the public in GP surgeries since 2001 |
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Headroom Life is full of ups and downs. So the BBC has created Headroom, a campaign to encourage you to look after your mental wellbeing. |
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Counselling Directory This website is a support network of UK counsellors and psychotherapists, with information on their training and experience, areas of counselling covered, fees and contact details. This service is free, confidential and easy to use. |
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Expert Advice on OCD Causes and Treatments OCD Symptoms contains over 30 articles written by our experts who continually update and add new content. |
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Making Space Publications, a wide range of mental health publications from Making Space |
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How to look after your mental health, The Mental health Foundation have put together 10 practical ways to look after your mental health. |
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The Mental Help Net web site exists to promote mental health and wellness education and advocacy. |
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Mental Health Specialist Library Mental Health HOT TOPICS - OUR MOST POPULAR SECTIONS |
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Come on in and make yourself at home! You can compare types of counselling and psychotherapy, take self-tests and quizzes, identify symptoms, look up medications. |
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Q. What is Our Link Exchange?
A. Our Link Exchange is guest links for web sites that are submitted or are passed on to us by users that think they will be of interest to the mental health community.
Health Services Links
Q. What are Health Service Links?
A. The above links are to web site that are relating and build around the NHS (National Health Service)
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MedicineChest has been written to help you make the right decision when a health issue is affecting you, your family or friends and is designed to provide you with useful information on home treatments, advise you when a pharmacist may be able to help and also clearly outline when you should visit your doctor.
Q. What are Health Encyclopedias?
A. Health information resource contains comprehensive and reliable database of health articles and reference materials from trusted sources ...
Professional Resources
Q. What are Professional Resources?
A. purpose built web sites for professional people such as doctors also containing a wealth of information to the general public and students.
Government Web Sites
Q. What are Government Web Sites?
A. The are web sites run by the UK Government but not related to Mental Health but other issues such as benefits, Health, employment and much more.Message Boards 'Mental Health Related'
ITV This Morning. ITV Message Boards Mental Health related pages.
HealthBoards.com. Moderated message boards covering cancer, allergies, alternative health, mental health, cerebral palsy, and disabilities.
Mental Health & Psychology Chat Rooms. Links to Chat Rooms - There are hundreds of Chat Rooms on the World Wide Web. A page selection of those concerned with Mental Health matters, whether as a meeting place or a place to find help and support.
Daily Mail Mail online. An online community is a place where you can meet new friends, share advice and problems or let off steam about anything you like.
Q. What are message boards?
A. Internet forums or message boards, refers to a on-line community with a distinct topic. Where you can add, read and chat with people. Above are some links to mental health related message boards.Advocacy
- The UK Advocacy Network the user controlled national federation of advocacy projects, patients' councils, user forums and self-help and support groups working in the field of mental health.
Action For Advocacy Action for Advocacy (A4A) is the central point of information on independent advocacy.
Patient Advocacy / Advice See the patient support section for details of 2000+ groups and organisation's that represent patients.
Q. What is Advocacy?
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1. To protect rights or change unfair discriminatory or abusive treatment to fair, equal, and humane treatment.
2. To improve services, gain eligibility for services or change the amount or quality of services to better meet the needs of an individual.
3. To remove barriers which prevent full access to full participation in community life.Counselling
Relate the relationship people - We're here to help you find the answers.
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy he UK's professional membership association for counsellors and psychotherapists.
Counselling Directory this web site is a support network of UK counsellors and psychotherapists
Q. What is Councselling?
A. An opportunity to talk about whatever is troubling you and to be heard. It is focused on helping you to find the best way to tackle your current problems.Carers
Help for Carers Information, advice, discussion and support for carers.
- Carers UK the voice of carers, news, rights and forum.
Q. What is are Carers?
A. The word 'carer' means someone who looks after a friend, relative or neighbor who needs support because of their sickness, age or disability.Other Languages
Apna online Apna News is a community led initiative based in Bolton.
MIND Mental health in translation in over 20 different languages.
- Some translated
Mental Health Information Documents for download in
English, French, Gujarati, Hindi, Kurdish, Urdu. Documents in .pdf file format.
Download Adobe Acrobat reader.Q. What is Other Languages?
A. Sites for the ethnic minority population.Speech enable you web browser.
Browsealoud reads web pages aloud for people who find it difficult to read online. Reading large amounts of text on screen can be difficult for those with literacy and visual impairments.