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Integrated health & mental Health

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Integrated Health & Mental Health Care Tools

These Suite products promote physical health and wellness among adults in mental health recovery.
Enhancing Your Immune Health
This manual teaches users how the immune system works and how to apply practical skills for better immune health. Its central message is that people can lessen their vulnerability to colds, flus, and infections by adopting a healthier lifestyle that includes adequate sleep, less stress, and a well-balanced diet. 
Nutrition and Exercise for Wellness and Recovery (NEW-R)
This 8-week curriculum teaches strategies for healthy eating and physical activity based on mindfulness. It includes exercise videos featuring people in mental health recovery and college students. Pilot data show that course participants lose weight and increase their knowledge about nutrition and physical activity.
Wellness Activities Manual
This workbook helps people learn new behaviors and habits to improve their personal wellness. Each of the 11 sessions involves group activities that maximize learning through building positive interpersonal relationships and active participant involvement. ​​
Online Diabetes Education Toolkit
This interactive web site contains a “Diabetes Library” of 1-page patient education handouts linked to the ADA standards of care, along with relevant podcasts and information about interpreting test results. It was used in a study of care coordination that combined patient education with a registry, resulting in improved metabolic indicators for study subjects. The toolkit is featured as a Quality Tool by the AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange.
Wellness in 8 Dimensions and the Wellness Daily Plan
This workbook helps people assess their strengths in each of the eight dimensions of wellness, set goals they would like to pursue, and access needed support for goal achievement. Also included are instructions for creating a daily plan for wellness activities and monitoring progress toward a healthier lifestyle.
Promoting Wellness for People in Mental Health Recovery: A Step-by-Step Guide to Planning & Conducting a Health Fair
This manual guides the reader through a detailed planning process that culminates in a health fair for people with psychiatric disabilities. It has been used to organize successful health screenings across the U.S., including the states of NY, CA, MD, IL, GA, NJ, and Washington DC. Screening data collected at these events establish the prevalence of many common medical conditions among adults in recovery, and the value of health fairs for improving participants’ health self-efficacy.
Physical Wellness for Work
This workbook presents a number of simple and enjoyable activities designed to augment users’ health and wellness for a better and more productive work day.
Health Passport/Portable Record: Your Journey to Wellness
This booklet educates readers about common medical conditions in the adult population and the tests used to screen for these conditions. It also provides a portable record that can be used to record test results over time. It has been used to document screening results for nearly 500 people at health fairs across the U.S. ​
Journaling – A Wellness Tool
Journaling is a method of recording a person’s thoughts, experiences, and emotions in written or other formats. This booklet describes how to use wellness journaling individually or in groups to improve life satisfaction and personal wellness. ​​​
Keeping Healthy After the Hospital
This manual introduces recovery and wellness concepts to people in inpatient settings, and motivates them to take steps towards better physical and emotional health after leaving the hospital. It is available in 7 languages. ​
Whole Health Action Management Guides
This manual helps people learn how to develop and use wellness self-management skills, including goal planning, to enhance their health and well-being. Users are taught how to identify a whole health goal and achieve it by creating and following a weekly action plan, bolstered by peer support and health education. ​
Please note!
​People in mental health recovery, their family members, and service providers are welcome to reproduce our products for their personal and/or programmatic use. However, no part of any of the products may be reproduced, adapted, or modified for commercial, research, or educational purposes, or for publication (including self-publication), without written permission from the UIC Center.  

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