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Principles for effective support

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When working with someone with a mental health condition, understanding best practice approaches will help you provide effective and respectful support. Understanding how to interpret someone’s behaviour is also key.

  1. Approaches to supporting people living with mental health conditions
    • What is a recovery oriented approach?
    • What is a person-centred approach?
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  2. Understanding behaviour
    • What is behaviour?
    • What factors can affect behaviour?
    • What might someone, with behaviours that you find challenging, be trying to say?
    • What effect can misinterpreting behaviour have?
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Current as at: Monday 20 January 2020
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