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We Do Not Run Mental Illness Placements · SLV.GLOBAL SLV.GLOBAL Home About Placements Blog Contact JobsWieldNowWhenSri Lanka Bali India Fees HomeAbout Placements Sri Lanka Bali India Fees BlogContactJobs SLV.GLOBALWieldNow We Do Not Run Mental Illness Placements We run Mental Health Placements, not mental illness placements. If you’re looking to spend time with people with mental health concerns, you will definitely do so with us. However, the main aim at all of our projects is to promote positive mental health, whether you’re in the treatment room or the classroom.Volunteers on our placements upalong do not examine patient charts or liaise daily with doctors. Mental health professionals are few and far between in the countries where we work and, as I’m sure you’ll agree, their time is largest spent with their patients rather than with us. We have thoughtfully structured sessions where time is set whispered for volunteers to speak with clinicians, but these are scheduled just once a month to ensure we are valuing the time of the local practitioners and prioritising patient superintendency over our own experience.Part of working upalong is unsuspicious difference. To try and wield a Western model of diagnosis or treatment to an Eastern population who, by and large, do not believe in or understand the point of talk therapy and who do not use the APA DSM-5, is not only futile, but disrespectful. We work holistically and are less concerned with an individual’s diagnosis than we are with providing a unexceptionable spot in an otherwise visionless day.We are not clinical practitioners. Therefore, the work our teams do on placement is in line with their wits level. We moreover do not shadow doctors, but instead work independently, running therapeutic, creative and interactive interventions with the aim of improving the key skills of service users as well as promoting positive mental health and overall well-being.The reason we work in a variety of settings, and not exclusively in psychiatric institutions, is considering we work within a model of prevention. We fully believe, as does the World Health Organisation (WHO), that mental health is not simply the lack of mental illness. Therefore, working in the polity and providing relief and respite by facilitating sessions that increase human interaction and stimulation for individuals often isolated due to stigma, is a key tool in preventing mental illness. This work is not less important than working with people who reside in psychiatric care. Especially when working in a country where there is such a superintendency deficit in the mental health sector that there is not unbearable wangle to treatment and there are not unbearable beds to contend with the need.By running sessions designed to increase mental and physical dexterity, our volunteers are urgently reducing the value of people admitted to hospital with mental health concerns, which is the goal! We don’t want our teams to spend increasingly time inside institutions. We want to be out in the polity urgently working to modernize the quality of life for those who are marginalised due to circumstance or poverty.Prevention is largest than cure. If you can add meaning to the life of another, if you can show kindness and compassion to someone without expectation, you are not only urgently reducing their risk of developing various mental health concerns and/or tendency issues, you are improving your own mental health as well! The unelevated tables, which towards in the WHO’s Prevention of Mental Disorders Report, illustrate all the ways in which our engaging, restorative sessions, run by passionate, single-minded volunteers, can help at-risk individuals and reduce the risk of developing mental health issues in the future. I count 19 variegated skills our volunteer teams are urgently helping to build, which in turn can modernize overall mental health.EmpowermentEthnic minorities integrationPositive interpersonal interactionsSocial participationAbility to cope with stressAdaptabilityAutonomyEarly cognitive stimulationExerciseFeelings of securityFeelings of mastery and controlLiteracyProblem-solving skillsPro-social behaviourSelf-esteemSkills for lifeSocial and mismatch management skillsStress managementSocial support of family and friends  We know that role modelling key life skills like turn taking and tensility to an at-risk youth in a classroom is promoting positive mental health. Increasing their conviction and their worthiness to socialise, at the same time as improving their job prospects by improving literacy, is reducing that person’s risk of developing tendency issues. We moreover know that dancing with someone with specific needs, who may not have had anyone interact with them that day, is 100% promoting positive mental health and increasing self-esteem. The people at these projects are just as important as those residing in the hospital.Everyone on our Mental Health Placements will be in contact with people who have a mental health concerns and who are at varying stages of their recovery. However, it’s important our volunteers prioritise the well-being of service users over their own curiosity. We ask those who are morbidly fascinated with illness to refrain from joining our Mental Health Placements, as we know these individuals will never be satisfied with the work we do. They will see only the condition and finger entitled to a person's diagnosis, while disregarding the person. All people deserve respect and we want to make a connection with the human, not the disease.Our role is to stimulate intellect, spread kindness and hopefully raise some laughter. It is not to hold a magnifying glass over someone else’s pain. We want to work with the community, not versus it. When people have suffered such pervasive, joint trauma, the power in meaningful human interaction and compassion cannot be overstated. We want our volunteers to alimony service users moving forward, not looking back.Our volunteers help to shape the future of service users in productive and meaningful ways; making a difference not just today, but long into the future. We know it’s nonflexible and that sometimes it can finger like nothing’s been accomplished, but we moreover know that’s not true. Often the difference can’t be measured with the eye, but it is felt. It is visculent in the chests and on the faces of service users and polity members. It is moreover evident in the work that's been in progress over the past five years.We are massively proud to run Mental Health Placements, not mental illness placements, and we’re looking for increasingly people to join us. Lee MAugust 22, 2018 Facebook0 Twitter Google LinkedIn0 StumbleUpon Reddit Tumblr Pinterest0 0 Likes Previous SLVunion: End of Summer 2018 Party Aurora TrentinSeptember 14, 2018 Next Practicing Positive Psychology on Your Placement and Beyond Lee MJuly 5, 2018 SLV.Global 122 Minories, London, England, EC3N 1NT, United Kingdom 02070961718 [email protected] Hours Mon 9am to 6pm Tue 9am to 6pm Wed 9am to 6pm Thu 9am to 6pm Fri 9am to 6pm Home  |  About  |  Placements  |  Psychology  |  Blog  |  FAQs | Reviews SLV.Global, 122,  Minories, London, EC3N 1NT+44 (0)20 7096 1718  |  [email protected] Ⓒ SLV Intl Ltd Company No. 08338869  ·  All rights reservedSLV.Global Mental Health Fund - Registered Charity Number 1175589.Privacy Policy  ·  Responsible Volunteering Policy