NEW! Wellness Recovery Action Plan™ (WRAP) for Veterans and People in the Military

Price: $6.00

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WRAP, used extensively in support groups and in hospitals around the country, has become an important tool for veterans and people in the military.

This important booklet was adapted from the well-known and widely used book Wellness Recovery Action Plan. This version of the plan was developed with input and guidance from people who are currently serving in the military as well as veterans and people in veterans' hospitals. While anyone can design and use their own WRAP, developing the plan with a supporter, in a group, or even as a family increases options and understanding. Each person will benefit from having their own copy.


If you are on active duty, in the reserves, or have been in the military you may be having a hard time coping with the hardship, trauma, and loss related to military service and being involved in war-related activities. You may have feelings and experiences that are extremely upsetting, that keep you from being the way you want to be and doing the things you want to do. In addition, things may be happening in your life that are difficult to deal with. Family members and friends, who don’t understand what you are experiencing and why you are behaving the way you are, may not know how to respond or how to help. Some may try to help and others may turn away. You may feel like the situation is hopeless - that you will never feel well and enjoy life again.

The Wellness Recovery Action Plan can help you in the process of recovery, of getting well and staying well, and of assisting you in becoming who you want to be and making your life the way you want it. It will also be helpful to you in adapting to any challenges you have in your life like chronic illness, serious disability, being on active duty, or dealing with extreme loss or grief.

Mary Ellen is passionate about getting resources to people who are in the military or have been in the military, people who are searching for ways to feel better, develop and keep strong relationships with others and work toward meeting their life goals and dreams. The Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) for Veterans and People in the Military is a model that provides hope for recovery and a full life.

The WRAP for Veterans and People in the Military is a big hit. The guys love it and are using it for their personal WRAP Plan along with their Vet to Vet agenda. I want to personally thank you and Ms. Copeland on your work and hopefully this can be extended to all vets.

NEW! Wellness Recovery Action Plan® (WRAP®) for Veterans and People in the Military DVD

Price: $19.95

In this DVD, Mary Ellen Copeland guides the veteran or person in the military through each step of the process of developing their personal Wellness Recovery Action Plan. It can be used on its own or to compliment the WRAP booklet described above. Individuals will benefit from having their own copies, or the DVD can be used again and again as a resource for groups. It can be a useful tool for families as well.

If you are on active duty, in the reserves, or have been in the military, you may be having a hard time with feelings and behaviors that are hard to deal with and address. They may be upsetting to you and your family. You may feel like they are taking away the life you had envisioned for yourself, and getting in the way of the dreams that sustained you while you were away.

The Wellness Recovery Action Plan is a simple, self-directed process that helps you figure out what you need to do, and how and when to do it, so that you can move forward with your life, doing the things you want to do and being the kind of person you want to be.

NEW! A WRAP Workbook for Kids

Price: $12.00

A Wrap Workbook for Kids is designed for children ages 7--12. However, with assistance, younger children can use it. Some older children might also choose to use it. Children can use this book to develop a Wellness Recovery Action Plan on their own or with the assistance and support of others.

With the help of two great kids, Hawk and Esther, this delightful book will guide a child through the process of developing their own Wellness Recovery Action Plan. It will help them discover all the things they can do to feel good, stay well, and even feel better when the going is hard. It starts with listing all those good and fun things that they can use to develop their action plans, like running with the dog, coloring, and talking to a friend.

Then, using these tools, the book guides them through the process of listing:

What they need to do every day to stay healthy and well
Things that might upset them and what they can do if these things do happen
Signs that they are not feeling well and things they can do to help themselves feel better
Signs that things are going really badly and things that they can do to make the situation better.

Creating Wellness Workshop - with Mary Ellen Copeland, DVD

Price: $60.00

This DVD is for use by individuals, agencies, organziations, classes and libraries.

This three-part series, based on a workshop with renowned author Mary Ellen Copeland, presents simple, effective, and non-invasive self-help strategies for anyone dealing with emotional, behavioral, or psychological challenges. This workshop provides useful information about how to get well and stay well. It is invaluable for in-service trainings and for self-help and support groups.

All three sessions - previously sold individually on VHS - are on one DVD. For ease of use, the workshop may be viewed in its entirety without interruption or each session and even each topic may be viewed individually.

Session #1 - Key Concepts for Mental Health offers an introduction to the underlying principles of Mary Ellen Copeland's recovery model. Lively and insightful discussions include: hope, personal responsibility, education, self-advocacy, support, health care, and managing medication use. (52 minutes)

Session #2- The Wellness Toolbox introduces the concept of Wellness Tools — simple actions that anyone can use to feel better and to stay well. Participants discuss with Mary Ellen how to create a personal 'Toolbox' for their own use in times of stress or when they are feeling badly. The workshop is organized into various topics including reaching out for support, peer counseling, focusing, relaxation, stress reduction, and journaling. (28 minutes)

Session #3 - Wellness Recovery Action Plan™ (WRAP) provides a simple system for monitoring and managing mental health difficulties. In this session Mary Ellen discusses with the group the steps to developing a WRAP. Participants both learn and share personal strategies for dealing with daily maintenance issues, triggering events, early warning signs, when things are breaking down, crisis and post crisis issues. (32 minutes)

"CREATING WELLNESS is the leading edge of mental health education. This extraordinary program shows how you can overcome hopelessness and helplessness to take charge of your own recovery, how you can find the support and resources you need, and how to chart a course back to wellness. This is a program full of compassionate help by someone who's been to the far side of depression and back — and knows what she's talking about."

Matthew McKay, Ph.D.
Co-founder and Publisher, New Harbinger Publications
Author, The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook

The Depression Workbook: A Guide to Living With Depression and Manic Depression

Price: $19.95

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The Depression Workbook (2nd. edition) is for personal use by adults, family members, supporters and health care providers. It can be used as a guide for mental health recovery groups and programs. To make this book easily accessible it should be included in libraries. Health care providers will benefit from having a reference copy and copies to loan to the people they support.

From the best selling author, Mary Ellen Copeland, comes the second edition of the well-known guide, The Depression Workbook. Learn and practice the latest self-help strategies to deal with all kinds of mental health issues including how to:

• take responsibility for your own wellness
  
• use charts to track and control your moods
  
• find helpful care providers
  
• build a system of mutual support
  
• increase self-confidence and self-esteem
  
• use relaxation, diet, exercise, and light to stabilize your moods
  
• avoid conditions that make you feel worse

Wellness Recovery Action Plan™ (WRAP)

Price: $10.00

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This book is a popular personal guide to developing a Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP). Adults and older teens who are working on recovery benefit from having their own copy. Agencies can purchase them for distribution to people in WRAP groups who are working with a care provider on developing a WRAP or who are working on their own to develop a WRAP. This book has broad applicability and is used world-wide as a basis for recovery. It has been adapted for many uses and translated into many different languages.

Learning self help skills for dealing with physical and emotional discomfort can be simple ... but it's a much greater challenge using self help methods during the most difficult times - when they can help the most - and incorporating them into daily life.

This book presents a system developed and used successfully by people with all kinds of physical, emotional and life issues. It has helped them use self help skills more easily to monitor how they are feeling, decrease the severity and frequency of difficult feelings, and improve the quality of their lives.

This book helps people:

• develop their own list of activities for everyday well-being
  
• track triggering events and early warning signs
  
• prepare personal responses for when they are feeling badly
  
• create a plan for supports to care for them if necessary.

Wellness Recovery Action Plan™ (WRAP) For People with Dual Diagnosis

Price: $10.00

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Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) for People with Dual Diagnosis is an adaptation of the popular personal guide to developing a Wellness Recovery Action Plan. Adults and older teens who are working on recovery from dual diagnosis issues benefit from having their own copy. Agencies can purchase these books for distribution to people in WRAP groups, people who are working with a care provider on developing their WRAP, or people who are working on their own to develop a WRAP.

This special edition of the original Wellness Recovery Action Plan™ book presents a system developed and used successfully by people with various mental health difficulties, including addictive disorders. It has helped them use self help skills more easily to monitor how they are feeling, decrease the severity and frequency of difficult feelings and behaviors, prevent relapse, and improve the quality of their lives. Learning self help skills for dealing with physical and emotional feelings and behaviors, as well as addictions, is a simple process... but it's a much greater challenge using these self help methods during the most difficult times, when they can help the most, and incorporating them into daily life. This book will help people:

• develop their own list of activities for every day well being
  
  
• track triggering events and early warning signs
  
  
• prepare personal responses for times when things are worsening
  
  
• create a plan for supporters to follow if needed

Plan de Acción para la Recuperación del Bienestar

Price: $10.00

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El aprender los metodos de auto-ayuda para abordar los sintomas fisicos y emocionales puede serfacil...sin embargo es un reto mucho mayor utilizar dichos metodos durante los momentos mas dificiles—cuando pueden ser mas utiles—e incorporarlos a la vida cotidiana. Este libro presenta un sistema desarrollado y usado con exito por personas con una diversidad de sintomas fisicos y emocionales. Les ha ayudado a usar metodos de auto-ayuda con una mayor facilidad para vigilar sus intomas, para disminuir la severidad y frecuencia de los sintomas y para mejorar la calidad de sus vidas.
Este libro le ayudara a:

desarroliar su propia lista de actividades para su bienestar diario anotar los acontecimientos desencadenadores y senales de alerta

preparar sus respuestas personales en caso de que se incrementen los sintomas

crear un plan para que las personas que to apoyan lo puedan cuidar en caso necesario

Esta guia accesible incluye informacion sobre el desarrollo de un sistema de apoyo, El uso de consejeria mutua de pareja, la concentracion, actividades creativas, El uso de un diario, la musica, la dieta, la luz, ejercicios de relajamiento y el lograr un buen sueno nocturno. Cuando uno usa El Plan de Accion para la Recuperacion del Bienestar, el manejo propio de los sintomas fisicos y emocionales se hace posible y practico.

Quantity Pricing for WRAP books
1 - 9 copies: $10.00 each
10 - 99 copies: $8.00 each
100 + copies: $7.00 each
1000+ copies: $6.00 each


ISBN 0-9631366-4-X
Size 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
104 Pages

Wellness Recovery Action Plan™ & Peer Support

Price: $40.00

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This book is an in-depth guide for peers and care providers who are working on setting up or sustaining mental health recovery and WRAP programs. Copies should be available for easy reference.

Peer Support is about having relationships with others in new and different ways that promote growth, recovery and wellness. WRAP is about living in new and different ways that promote growth, recovery, and wellness. By combining the two, the skills and strategies that we discover in peer support can become part of our WRAP and the skills and strategies we discover as we learn about and use WRAP assist us in peer support.

The combination of WRAP and Peer Support can be very powerful in helping us grow, learn from each other and challenge each other beyond what we thought we were capable of. Using some of the peer support theory, we can begin to use WRAP to help each other discover the context within which we've learned about ourselves, and then help each other develop plans that build a new story.

“This book brings together two of our most visionary thinkers and educators about mental health recovery in an inspiring and innovative partnership. Mary Ellen and Shery’s book demonstrates, in very simple and practical terms, how people and progressive professionals can combine the power of both personal and peer efforts to promote their own self-empowerment and growth. Their work is a must for those looking for the next advance in the emerging research and understanding about what helps people help and take ownership over their own personal process of recovery.” Harvey Rosenthal

“WRAP and Peer Support Manual: Personal, Group, and Program Development by Copeland and Mead provides an excellent set of tools for people helping each other through difficult times, peer run programs and any advocate interested in learning about developing, or supporting these services. WRAP and Peer Support work together like hand and glove. The text provides an in-depth overview of the principles and practices of peer support and looks at some of the issues and concerns that commonly surround peer support. It offers an overview of Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP) and practical ways peers can help each other individually or in groups to create a personal WRAP plan and to support each other as needed to incorporate those plans day-to-day in their lives. This is a very comprehensive text and an important contribution to the growing tool box for recovery in mental health. “ Laurie Curtis, M.A., C.P.R.P.

Wellness Tools, Audio CD

Price: $19.95

This CD is designed for pesonal use by older teens and adults. It can also be used in groups. Health care provides and libraries can make them available on loan.

The Wellness Toolbox is the cornerstone of WRAP. It contains your personal listing of all the tools you have at your disposal to use to help yourself feel better and stay well. The Wellness Toolbox is used to develop action plans for all parts of WRAP from the Daily Maintenance Plan to the Post Crisis Plan. This CD leads you through an intenisve process of uncovering your personal Wellness Tools. It includes many Wellness Tools that you can put in your own toolbox if you think they would work for you.

WRAP for Your Computer

Price: $19.95

This CD is designed for use by teens (ages 12-20) and adults. This learning format is particularly useful for people who want to develop their Wellness Recovery Action Plan on their computer.


The WRAP CD has two files - one is WRAP for Adults and one is WRAP for Teens (although some adults might prefer that simplified version). Each of these files includes complete instructions for developing a WRAP plan and forms that you can fill out and leave on your computer or print out. It is designed so that you can move easily between the instructions and the forms.

The software program is useful for tailoring programs or emphasizing points. It gives you the flexibility to adapt to different programs or individual needs.
The WRAP software is well suited to support facilitation of WRAP groups and the review of the WRAP process. Refer to the listing for Wellness Recovery Action Plan for more information on WRAP.

WRAP: Step-by-Step, Audio CD

Price: $19.95

This audio CD is designed for use by older teens and adults. It is especially useful for people who learn best by listening, have vision difficulties, or prefer not to read. It can be used as a simple review of the WRAP process and can be used when traveling.

"WRAP: Step-by-Step" (formerly entitled Winning Against Relapse Program) is an audio CD in which Mary Ellen Copeland takes the listener step-by-step through developing a Wellness Recovery Action Plan™ (WRAP). This CD can be used with or without the books she has written describing the WRAP program.

Living Without Depression and Manic Depression: A Workbook for Maintaining Mood Stability

Price: $21.95

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Living Without Depression and Manic Depression is an intensive manual for use by people who have been working on their wellness and recovery over time. It is not a beginner's manual. Many people choose to use it after they have used "The Depression Workbook".  
 
If you have already worked your way through The Depression Workbook and are ready for the next step, this workbook is for you. This manual, based on intensive studies of people who have gotten well and stayed well over time, teaches you the intricacies of taking over control of your feelings and your life using a wide variety of self-help skills and strategies. It also leads you through the process of getting top notch care from your health care providers and uncovering any medical issues that might be affecting your life and your health.   
 
This workbook is not light reading. Neither, however, is it complicated, theoretical or esoteric. Living Without Depression and Manic Depression is a straight-forward guide for people who experience mental health difficulties. Interactive exercises teach essential coping skills such as building a strong support system, fighting negative thoughts, finding appropriate professional help, and using relaxation and exercise.

Living Without Depression and Manic Depression is one of the texts for the Mental Health Recovery and WRAP Correspondence Course. For more information on the course go to www.copelandcenter.com.

This work book gave me the information I needed to fine-tune my recovery. I thought I knew all there was to know. Now I know I can never stop learning and never stop recovering.

Winning Against Relapse

Price: $16.95

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This book is for use by older teens and adults who are working on their recovery, their supporters and care providers. It can also be used as a guide for groups and should be available on loan by health care providers and libraries. It is an in-depth description of the Wellness Recovery Action Plan process and is highly recommended as a supplement to the other WRAP resources. It contains specific instructions for working with others who have special needs.

Every recovery holds the potential for relapse. And for many who have fought their way back to health from a physical disorder or emotional trauma, the return of old feelings and behaviors can be even more devastating than the original crisis.     
 
This workbook provides a carefully structured system that anyone can use to monitor feelings and behaviors and respond to them in a way that reduces or eliminates the possibility of relapse and increases the likelihood that you will feel well most of the time. You will identify those things you need to do every day to maintain an optimum level of wellness, how to recognize the daily events that can cause you to feel badly, the early warning signs that you need to take action, the signs that the situation is worsening, and how to make personal action plans that can reverse the situation. It will also guide you through the process of developing a personal crisis plan for others to use if they need to take responsibility for your care.

"I am delighted that Mary Ellen Copeland has designed such comprehensive and easy-to-use guidelines. Winning Against Relapse can be used for a multitude of illnesses, including chronic pain states. It promotes the state of optimum wellness that should be our goal."       
 
       Devin J. Starlanyl, co-author of Fibromyalgia and Myofascial Pain Syndrome         and author of The Fibromyalgia Advocate 

Community Links: Pathways to Reconnection and Recovery

Price: $70.00

New Book From Mary Ellen Copeland And Shery Mead
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The Community Links Manual is designed for mental health agencies and organizations to use in developing and administering a Community Links Program. It include the format for a three-day training for people who are in support roles, and a CD with the slides and handouts for the training. If you are an agency or organization working to assist people in their recovery and promote community integration, this manual addresses that need.

Community Links is a voluntary program that matches peers or community members with people who have:

• court orders of non-hospitalization or involuntary commitment
  
• are dependent on the mental health system for assistance and support; and/or
  
• feel isolated from their community due to mental health difficulties.

The Worry Control Workbook

Price: $16.95

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The Worry Control Workbook is a resource for adults and older teens who are troubled with intrusive worry and the people who care about and support them, including care providers. It can be used as a guide for groups. While most people prefer to have their own copy, copies for care providers and libraries will make this book accessible to more people who will benefit from its use. This book is filled with case histories and suggested action plans.

Is worry taking up too much of your time and energy? Or is constant worry literally making you sick?

A little worry can actually serve a variety of positive functions, as it does when it helps us identify real problems or motivates us to take some needed action. But for some, worry is a problem, leading to difficulty sleeping, muscle tension, headaches, and other physical complaints. Others feel perpetually tired, have trouble concentrating, or suffer from depression.

The good news is that you can learn to reduce your anxiety and deal with worry more effectively. The Worry Control Workbook is a supportive and comprehensive guide offering real help to anyone struggling with excessive concerns about issues like the world situation, health, money, family or work.

ISBN 0-9631366-6-6
Size 6 3/4" x 9 3/4"
Pages 274

Fibromyalgia and Chronic Myofascial Pain Syndrome: A Survival Manual

Price: $19.95

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This guide is for use by people with chronic pain, their supporters and health care providers.  
 
Chronic Pain is a world unto itself. The simple things in life are no longer simple. Pain moves from being an unwanted, occassional guest intruding in one's life to being the driving force behind nearly all decisions. Daily choices are governed by the need to survive mentally, physically, and emotionally from day to day. Ordinary life becomes becomes almost unbearable.       
 
This second edition of Fibromyalgia & Chronic Myofacial Pain Syndrome serves as a beacon of light in the dark world of chronic pain. All readers can learn more about chronic pain and immediately apply that knowledge.  

"In a 1997 book review, I extolled the extraordinary feature of the first edition of Starlanyl and Copeland's Survival Manual. As caregivers to FMS/MPS patients and as suffers themselves, their advice in the book was superbly tuned to readers' needs. Now, in this second edition, Starlanyl and Copeland have outshone themselves. Having updated the Survival Manual and enhanced its laudable features, they have made an already valuable book almost priceless."  

Dr. John C. Lowe, Director of Research, Fibromyalgia Research Foundation, Board Certified, American Academy of Pain Management  

"They've done it again! This second edition of the Survival Manual is a gold mine of practical advice and scholarly information put into everyday language. This book gives a great many options for all aspects of FMS/CMP and its message is one of hope. An owner's manual for you, and one that should be required reading for all of your health care providers, this is not a book to be read and crossed off of your list, but a resource to avail yourself of over and over again. The tools are here. Use it yourself and have those close to you read it also."    
 
Richard Finn, Director, Academy for Myofascial Trigger Point Therapy, coauthor, Myofascial Pain Syndrome: Manual Trigger Point and S-EMG Therapies.

Healing the Trauma of Abuse: A Women's Workbook

Price: $24.95

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This manual is for use by women who have been abused. It can be used as a guide for groups, for people who are working on their own healing and recovery, and by agencies or organizations for program planning and implemention.

Mary Ellen Copeland co-authored the book Healing the Trauma of Abuse: A Gentle Woman's Guide with Maxine Harris of Community Connections in Washington, DC. This important self-help book describes a weekly lesson process that women can use to relieve the effects of trauma in their lives, either when working in a group, with a counselor, or when, as many women must do, working on their own. It rebuilds self-esteem and gives back the personal power, trust and sense of connection that are taken away by a traumatic experience.

This book is based on the findings of an intensive study of strategies that help women who have been traumatized to heal from the effects of this trauma and make their lives the way they want them to be.

ISBN 1-57224-199-3
Size 8 1/2" x 11"
408 Pages

Recovering from Depression: A Workbook for Teens

Price: $24.95

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Recovering from Depression: A Workbook for Teens is designed for personal use by adolescents (ages 12 to 20). It can also be used as a guide for groups for adolescents. Parents and health care providers will find that it enhances their understanding and gives them ideas that they can suggest to their teen. Some adults prefer using this manual as a personal recovery guide. 

When young people experience deep sadness and difficult feelings and behave in ways even they don't understand, it is confusing, upsetting, disabling and even dangerous for them and for the people who love them. Working step-by-step through the wellness process described in this book will give them easy to use skills and strategies that will serve them throughout their life while enhancing self understanding and building self esteem. Used successfully by many young people, this book guides them through the process of finding help for themselves and getting on the road to feeling happy and healthy. This book focuses on strengths and personal success.

It contains easy to use information, forms, activities and suggested actions.

ISBN 1-55766-592-3
Size 7" x 10"
208 Pages

The Loneliness Workbook

Price: $16.95

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This book is designed for use by older adolescents and adults who are working on issues related to loneliness, and for their family members and care providers. It can be used as a guide for groups. While most people prefer to have their own copy, copies for care providers and libraries will make this book accessible to more people who will benefit from its use. This book also contains guidance for developing and sustaining support groups.

As Mary Ellen teaches around the country, she continues to find that loneliness is a strong contributor to depression and poor quality of life for people who experience mental health difficulties. In this book Mary Ellen has described how to develop and keep a strong support system. She focuses on the importance of personal responsibility, enjoying time alone, support groups and building networks of support. In addition she has addressed many issues that make it difficult for many people to make and keep friends. As with her other books, Mary Ellen's research was the foundation for The Loneliness Workbook. This book was the result of a study of nearly 100 people to find out how they relieve loneliness in their lives.

"Loneliness is pervasive in our fast-paced culture. Since people tend to increase their sense of emotional distress when they are disconnected from others, the effects of loneliness are a serious problem. This excellent book takes a hands-on approach to relieving loneliness and offers people hope that relationships are a path to healing and growth."

Facilitator Training Manual: Mental Health Recovery including Wellness Recovery Action Planning Curriculum

Price: $129.00

This manual is the cornerstone of the Mental Health Recovery and WRAP program. It is designed for use by people who facilitate WRAP groups and is the text for five day WRAP facilitator certification training. It Includes a CD-ROM of transparencies, one WRAP book, and complete instructions for facilitating WRAP groups, workshops and seminars. For information on attending a training to receive mental health recovery and WRAP facilitation certification, go to www.copelandcenter.com.

This manual can be used by anyone who is familiar with Mary Ellen's Mental Health Recovery work, including her focus on Wellness Recovery Action Planning. The materials are specific to facilitating Mary Ellen's WRAP workshop, Mental Health Recovery: Introduction to Recovery and WRAP and is not necessarily a resource to be used in developing other kinds of programs. However, some facilitators and programs are sucessfully using this Recovery/WRAP focus in combination with other programs.


This non-scripted program is based on years of research experience by Mary Ellen Copeland. She was assisted in its development by Program Manager, Ed Anthes. Patti Smith, Graphic Designer, created the PowerPoint Presentation that includes over 200 recovery-focused slides. The CD-ROM also includes a video introduction by Mary Ellen Copeland. The curriculum package includes:

Section I: specific instructions on all aspects of setting up, implementing, adapting, and facilitating Mental Health Recovery including Wellness Recovery Action Planning workshops and seminars,

Section II: thumbnail sketches of each transparency included on the CD-ROM,

Section III: supporting activities, handouts, and discussion topics; and

Section IV: an extensive list of related resources for the facilitator.