Emotional Health Promotion Strategy
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Emotional Health Promotion Strategy
Published in 2003
The Emotional Health Promotion Strategy explains
what emotional health is, why it is important, and how Samaritans
is proactively working within a number of settings to tackle UK's
distress. This publication details how Samaritans aims to provide
education, positive coping skills, and ultimately change societal
attitudes towards emotional health.
From the introduction:
The aim of this work is:
To benefit society by improving people’s emotional health, hence
providing a greater sense of well being.
In order to achieve our aim, we have set ourselves the following
objectives:
- To encourage the recognition and sharing of difficult feelings
of distress and despair, including those that may lead to
suicide.
- To raise awareness of the consequences of emotional
distress.
- To increase knowledge about effective coping strategies.
- To change attitudes, in particular groups, towards talking
about emotional health.
- To increase resilience, enabling people to cope better with
times/events they experience as difficult.