Chronic Pain
Watch short videos and listen to radio podcasts to help you better understand how pain works and approaches to help reduce your pain.
Course Category: Recovery Academy
Chronic Pain – Self-help resources
Pain that lasts for more than 3 months is known as chronic pain or persistent pain. ‘Chronic’ means it has lasted for a long time, it does not refer to how bad the pain is.
Medicines and Psychiatry – Self-help resources
Read about psychiatry and medicines used to treat mental health problems, including: antidepressants and antipsychotics side effects and stopping medicines psychiatric appointments and prescriptions
Talking Therapies and Counselling – Self-help Resources
Mental Health and Social Care- Self-help Resources
Find information about social care support, how to access mental health and physical health assessments, and support for carers.
Mental Health and the Law – Consent to Treatment – Self-help Resources
Consent to treatment means a person must give permission before they receive any type of medical treatment, test or examination.
Mental Health and the Law – Mental Capacity Act – Self-help Resources
The Mental Capacity Act (MCA) is designed to protect and empower people who may lack the mental capacity to make their own decisions about their care and treatment. It applies to people aged 16 and over. It covers decisions about day-to-day things like what to wear or what to buy for the weekly shop, or […]
Mental Health and the Law – Mental Health Act – Self-help Resources
In most cases when people are treated in hospital or another mental health facility, they have agreed or volunteered to be there. They may be referred to as a voluntary patient. But there are cases when a person can be detained, also known as sectioned, under the Mental Health Act (1983) and treated without their […]
Suicide Awareness Training for the Autistic Community – Zero Suicide Alliance
This course has been developed for anyone to take the training, but we particularly recommend you take the training if you are part of the autistic community or work with autistic people.
Suicide Awareness Training – Zero Suicide Alliance
Learn how to help someone who may be thinking of suicide with Zero Suicide Alliance’s free training.