Self Help Toolkit
How many different words do we use for each feeling? For example, we don’t just say happy, we can say we are great or good. We don’t just feel sad, we can feel depressed, low, fed up, distressed. Confusing right?
Self-Help Resources
Looking after me
Young Carers aged 5-15
- Managing worry
- Embracing change
- Exploring your feelings
- Reducing exam stress
- …………………
Young adult carers aged 16-24
- Improving sleep
- Managing stress
- Improving self-confidence
- Reducing exam stress
- ……………..
Relationships – ‘It’s OK to be Selfish (Self-ish)
- Setting boundaries – creating ‘me’ time – quotes from YACS (ie SP – when I have my earphones in they know it’s time to leave me alone and let me have my time.)
- Passive Aggressive Behaviour – some home truths about how we can behave towards our cared for – tips for changing passive aggressive to assertive talk/actions.
- Bullying – how much to share and who with
Mental Health – anxiety, self harm, loneliness, not fitting in
- Calm Harm App
- Quotes from DJ/AN re plants needing right environment to thrive, SW – what to do instead of self harm.
- Quotes from FB re coming to events – RP
- Cares Training – 7/11 breathing, visualising, noticing detail, muscle-relaxing, social connection, ABC negative thoughts
Planning your future – ‘moving forwards’ ‘Transition’ ‘Thinking about me, as well as my cared for’ ‘My future’
- Writing a personal statement/CV – positive skills and qualities developed from caring role
- Spinning Plates Game (Carers Trust)
- Links with MyGO – Gary Mills
- Links with colleges – G:\Young Adult Carers\Sixth Forms & Colleges\YAC’s college flyer v7.pdf
- UCAS ‘carer tick box’ from this September
- Article from conversation with LS re benefits of uni (still in my notebook)
- The Really Useful Book of Learning and Earning for Young Adult Carers (Learning and Work Institute) http://shop.niace.org.uk/media/catalog/product/r/u/ruble_ya_carers_2014_-_web.pdf