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Guides for teachers, clinicians, managers and others who support people. 34 guides in 9 groups.

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Care staff

  1. Caring for older adults: everyday skillsThe small moments you give, a name remembered, a hand held, a choice respected, shape someone’s whole day. Here is help to do them well.⏱ 5 min
    📝 6
  2. Residents’ mood & behaviour: for care staffBehind a shout, a refusal or a quiet withdrawal there is usually a person trying to tell you something. Here is how to listen, stay safe and pass it on.⏱ 4 min
    📝 3
  3. Looking after yourself in care workYou spend your days caring for others. The body, heart and mind that do that work deserve care too.⏱ 3 min
    📝 3
  4. When a resident dies: grief for care staffYou may have bathed, fed and laughed with them for years. Your grief is real, and it deserves room.⏱ 3 min
    📝 3

Counselors & psychologists

  1. Counselors’ wellbeingYou help people find their footing every day. Your own footing matters just as much.⏱ 5 min
    📝 4
  2. Psychologists’ wellbeingYou study, assess and ease human suffering. You are allowed to be human too.⏱ 4 min
    📝 4
  3. Trauma-informed practiceSmall choices in how we greet, explain and listen can help people feel safe enough to heal.⏱ 4 min
    📝 4
  4. Cultural humility in helping workYou don’t have to know everything about someone’s culture. You do have to stay curious, open and willing to learn.⏱ 4 min
    📝 4

Healthy workplaces

  1. Mentally healthy workplacesFor managers and leaders: small, steady choices can make work safer and kinder for everyone.⏱ 5 min
    📝 3
  2. Leading a mentally healthy teamYou don’t need all the answers. Noticing, asking and caring go a long way.⏱ 4 min
    📝 4
  3. Psychological safety & a healthy work cultureTeams thrive when people can speak up, ask for help and make mistakes without fear.⏱ 4 min
    📝 4

Nurses & doctors

  1. Nurses’ mental healthYou notice every change in your patients. This is a place to notice how you are doing, too.⏱ 6 min
    📝 4
  2. Doctors’ mental healthYou were trained to look after everyone else. You are allowed to be a patient, too.⏱ 4 min
    📝 4
  3. Moral injury in healthcareThe pain of not being able to give the care you know is right is real. It shows how much you care, and it can heal.⏱ 4 min
    📝 3

School staff

  1. Student mental health: a guide for school staffYou may be the steady adult a student remembers for life. Here is how to notice, reach out, refer, and look after yourself too.⏱ 8 min
    📝 3
  2. Crisis & safety at school (for staff)When a student is in danger or a school is hurting, calm adults make all the difference. Here is what to do, step by step.⏱ 6 min
    📝 3
  3. Calm classrooms & behaviour supportBehind every hard moment is a need. Calm spaces, steady adults and a plan help students settle, learn and belong.⏱ 7 min
    📝 4
  4. Special education for school staffIEPs and 504 plans only help when they happen every day. Here is how to understand them, carry them out and partner with families.⏱ 4 min
    📝 3

Social workers

  1. Social workers’ mental healthYou hold other people’s hardest moments. Your own mind and heart deserve the same care you give.⏱ 5 min
    📝 4
  2. Staying safe in social workYou can’t care for others if you aren’t safe. Planning for safety is part of good practice, not a lack of trust.⏱ 4 min
    📝 4
  3. Sustaining yourself in social workThis work is a long journey, not a sprint. Small, steady habits and good support can help you stay well and stay in it.⏱ 4 min
    📝 4

Students & new clinicians

  1. Grad school & training in mental healthYou are learning to hold other people’s pain while still finding your feet. Be as patient with yourself as you are with your clients.⏱ 6 min
    📝 4
  2. Getting (and giving) good supervisionGood supervision is where clinicians grow, steady themselves and learn they don’t have to carry the work alone.⏱ 5 min
    📝 4
  3. Your first years in practiceNobody arrives fully formed. The first years are for learning, steadying and building a career you can keep.⏱ 4 min
    📝 4

Therapists

  1. For therapists & counselors: caring for the carersYou hold space for other people’s hardest moments. You deserve a space that holds you too.⏱ 5 min
    📝 6
  2. When clients are in crisis or die: support for cliniciansThe hardest moments in this work are not meant to be carried alone.⏱ 4 min
    📝 3
  3. Boundaries, ethics & countertransference for cliniciansClear boundaries protect your clients, and they protect the person doing the caring too.⏱ 4 min
    📝 3
  4. Therapists’ own therapy, supervision & peer supportThe people who help others heal deserve a circle of their own.⏱ 4 min
    📝 3
  5. Heavy caseloads & therapist burnoutYou can’t pour your full attention into the eighth hour the way you did the first. That’s not weakness; that’s being human.⏱ 4 min
    📝 4
  6. Insurance, productivity quotas & clinician wellbeingWhen the numbers on a spreadsheet start to crowd out the person in the room, it’s not just you feeling it.⏱ 4 min
    📝 4
  7. When clinician fatigue affects careNoticing that you’re running on empty is not a failure of care. It’s the first act of it.⏱ 4 min
    📝 4

Vicarious trauma

  1. Vicarious trauma & secondary traumatic stressCarrying other people’s stories changes us. Noticing it is not weakness — it’s how helpers stay well enough to keep helping.⏱ 5 min
    📝 4
  2. Crisis line & 988 workersYou are the calm voice at someone’s hardest moment. You deserve that same care at the end of your shift.⏱ 4 min
    📝 4
  3. Peer support workersYour lived experience is real expertise. Your own wellbeing and recovery deserve the same care you give others.⏱ 4 min
    📝 4
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