First Steps to Recovery: Sleep

All students will be able to:

• Relate topic with own recovery journey.
• Understand the importance of sleep and how it relates to them as individuals.
• Identify what issues they have surrounding sleep and how they can improve their sleep.

Most students will be able to:

• Make a sleep hygiene plan.
• Understand how different mental health issues can affect sleep.
• Understand how sleep can affect our wellbeing.

Some students will be able to:

• Utilise sleep hygiene plan.

First Steps to Recovery: Stress Less

All students will be able to:

• Understand signs and symptoms of stress.
• List how stress affects your life / or the person you are supporting.

Most students will be able to:

• List 3 ways to reduce / manage stress for you / or the person you are supporting.

Some students will be able to:

• Identify 1 thing you can do today to apply your learning to your own recovery or supporting someone else’s.

First Steps to Recovery: Food & Mood

All students will be able to:

• Add to their wellness plans.
• Understand the importance of a healthy diet in relation to their mental functioning.

Most students will be able to:

• Feel comfortable sharing some information about their lifestyle.
• Think about their own diet and what changes they can make in relation to this.

Some students will be able to:

• Explore ways to learn more about food and mood.

First Steps to Recovery: Communication

All students will be able to:

• Recognise different types of behaviour in relation to how we communicate.
• Recognise our rights to be assertive.

Most students will be able to:

• Gain some basic skills to improve communication.

Some students will be able to:

• Plan the development and implementation of effective communication skills.

First Steps to Recovery: Medication

All students will be able to:

• Understand the importance of talking to their doctor about their experience with medications.
• List two of the medication families.

Most students will be able to:

• Outline how medication works.

Some students will be able to:

• Apply some learning from the course to their own experience.

First Steps to Recovery: Problem Solving

All students will be able to:

• Identify what affects people’s ability to problem solve.
• Explore problem solving techniques.

Most students will be able to:

• Learn a technique to problem solve effectively.
• Apply a problem solving technique to their individual problems.

Some students will be able to:

• Help others use problem solving techniques.

First Steps to Recovery: Balanced Lifestyle

All students will be able to:

• Describe what we mean by balanced lifestyle.
• Identify our own current lifestyle balance.

Most students will be able to:

• Examine what impacts our ability to live a balanced life.
• Explore short term solutions to long term problems.

Some students will be able to:

• Practice Goal Setting.