by Fabienne Vailes | Mar 20, 2017 | mental health in education
In a previous blog, I shared what I learned from a wonderful conversation with Dr Anna Waters who is Psychological Skills Mentor at the Chimp Management Ltd. She now works exclusively using the ‘Chimp Model’. Today, I expand further on the topic… The...
by Fabienne Vailes | Mar 19, 2017 | mental health in education, Uncategorised
I received a question to one of my previous blogs on the 4 mental health states based on Dr Kutcher’s pyramid model and although I replied briefly, I promised that I would use the topic as a blog post. So, here it is… The language we use matters In our...
by Fabienne Vailes | Mar 18, 2017 | mental health in education
Ever wondered why you set intentions such as going on a diet or stopping to smoke only to find yourself not being able to resist? If so, then this blog might shed some lights on the reasons behind some of our behaviours. As I am researching for my forthcoming...
by Fabienne Vailes | Mar 17, 2017 | mental health in education
Do you suffer from a mental illness or have suffered from a mental illness? Do you know someone who does or has? Do you feel that people don’t understand your condition? Let’s bring some clarity around mental health and its various states. Let’s...
by Fabienne Vailes | Mar 16, 2017 | mental health in education
Could mental health be compared to physical health? Could it be a continuum? What is physical health? Prior to the progress made by modern medicine, we would consider someone to be physically healthy if they were not stricken by an illness. Nowadays, all the progress...
by Fabienne Vailes | Mar 15, 2017 | mental health in education, Uncategorised
Mental health… problems… issues… disorders… ill health? What does it all mean? Is this creating a semantic confusion around the topic of mental health? Time for change? As a linguist, I love words and definitions. This is particularly true about English words I had to...
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