This course is designed to help you learn:
• mental health recovery concepts and skills
• how to develop a Wellness Recovery Action Plan® (WRAP)
Divided into six lessons with reading assignments, projects, activities, and discussion with the instructor, the Correspondence Course takes you through recovery topics, peer support, trauma, lifestyle issues, WRAP, and reflection on your own recovery journey. The course instructor is an experienced recovery educator.
You can expect to spend four to five hours per week for six weeks reading and completing assignments. You may complete the course at your own pace.
In areas where several people are taking the correspondence course, participants have met together, usually once a week. They discuss and work on the assignments together. We encourage you to consider this option.
The Correspondence Course is an excellent way to prepare to become a WRAP Facilitator. We suggest that you begin work on the Correspondence Course at least six weeks before the start date of the WRAP Facilitator Training.
| Lesson 1 | Study of underlying recovery concepts, including hope, personal responsibility, education, self-advocacy, and different types of support (peer, family, professional, community). |
| Lesson 2 | Language has great power. It can stigmatize or uplift. Awareness of the language we use will promote the use of language that reduces stigma and promotes wellness and recovery. |
| Lesson 3 | Explore the use of various simple, safe, self-help wellness tools that people who experience mental health difficulties have found to be useful in temporarily relieving these symptoms and for maintaining wellness including peer counseling, focusing exercises, relaxation and stress reduction exercises. |
| Lesson 4 | Develop a Wellness Recovery Action Plan that includes a daily maintenance plan, identifying and responding to triggers, identifying and responding to early warning signs, identifying those symptoms that indicate the situation has worsened and responding to those symptoms to successfully relieve them and writing an effective crisis plan or advanced directive and a post crisis plan. |
| Lesson 5 | Explore specific issues that affect wellness, including changing negative to positive thoughts, building self-esteem, suicide prevention, reducing the effects of trauma, journaling, diversionary activities, exercises sleep and developing a lifestyle that enhances wellness. |
| Lesson 6 | The course concludes with reflection and discussion of your perception of recovery and whether or not it changed after reading the material and doing the assignments and exercises related to this course. |
Registration
Fee: $200
If you would like to make arrangement to register multiple participants at one time, please contact info@copelandcenter.com or 802-254-5335.
The fee does not include the cost of books used for the course.
Payment Policies
We will send course information and assignments once we have received your registration information and payment.
Required Books:
1. Copeland, M. E. 1992 and 2001. The Depression Workbook 2nd edition 2001. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications. Revised 2001.
2. Copeland, M. E. 1994. Living Without Depression and Manic Depression. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications.
3. Copeland, M.E. 1997, revised 2002. Wellness Recovery Action Plan. W. Dummerston, VT: Peach Press. Revised 2001.
Books may be purchased from:
Mental Health Recovery and WRAP
http://www.mentalhealthrecovery.com/store/
PO Box 301
West Dummerston, VT 05357
802-254-2092
802-257-7499 (fax)
books@mentalhealthrecovery.com
