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A Message to Health Care Providers
MySelfHelp.com, funded and supported by the National Institute
of Mental Health, U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services, was developed by a team of highly experienced
and reputable healthcare professionals. Our interactive self-help
services, available 24 hours a day, have been designed to support
and enhance the treatment services you provide.
We know that many of the people you treat are likely to be struggling
with more than one mental health problem. That is why we are developing
programmes that will address the full spectrum of psychological
difficulties. For just $16US (approximately £9) a month, members
have unlimited access to an ever-growing
family of programmes, thereby enabling them to work on a broad
range of symptoms and issues.
Make Us a Part of Your Treatment Team
All MySelfHelp.com programmes are designed as adjuncts to treatment. Our
programmes support the use of both medication and psychotherapy
by:
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Addressing the needs of members at all levels of insight and
readiness for change, ranging from clients who are still questioning
their diagnoses, to those who are fully engaged in the recovery
process
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Allowing you to monitor progress through daily and weekly
user logs and journals, exercise results, and system-generated
charts
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Reinforcing coping strategies, alternative ways of thinking,
and new behavioral skills introduced in your treatment sessions
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Prompting completion of self-help assignments through the
use of reminders
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Providing a more accurate account of events and experiences
by allowing users to enter information into the system in real
time, while symptoms or episodes are occurring
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Encouraging members to seek appropriate treatments and helping
them overcome misconceptions about psychotherapy and medication
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Encouraging members who are in treatment to disclose sensitive
information directly to their providers, particularly involving
high-risk symptoms and behaviors
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Ensuring the confidentiality, anonymity, and safety of our
members
We have developed “Clinician Tip Sheets” for each
of our programmes. The Tip Sheets identify the parts of the programmes
that can be used to address specific treatment goals. By employing
these tip sheets, you can help your patients/clients use the program
in ways that mesh most effectively with the treatment you are providing.
To view the Clinician Tip Sheets, please click the links to the
right of this paragraph.
Working in Partnership with You and Our Members
We are continually updating and adding content to the MySelfHelp.com
programmes in response to feedback from both health care professionals
and our members.
We welcome your input and suggestions as to how we can improve
our programmes to best meet the needs of you and your clients.
We utilise an extensive, multidisciplinary network of collaborators
and consultants to ensure that our programs reflect the latest
research literature and conform to the highest standards of clinical
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