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  Psychiatric Disability

Information Kit

Aims:

• to encourage participants to focus on the individual, not the disability

• to promote an understanding of mental illness and its disabling impact on a person's life

• to foster an understanding of the ways in which the information needs of people with a psychiatric disability can be met

• to develop an awareness of issues surrounding access to library materials

Contents:

Core information (Handouts):

PEOPLE WITH A MENTAL ILLNESS 

• What is mental illness 
• Mental illness and psychiatric disability: what's the difference? 
• Facts about mental illness 
• Main types of mental illness 

ATTITUDES AND COMMUNICATION 

• Why does a mental illness sometimes develop into a psychiatric disability?
• Psychiatric disability - the social disadvantages 
• Practical communication strategies

Activities

Resources