There is a strong relationship between mental health and physical well-being. Your mental health determines your ability to cope with the normal stresses of life and how you function day to day.
The Alberta Heartland Primary Care Network offers programs and services to support your mental well-being as well as your physical health. We also improve and coordinate access to mental health services, education and support groups.
*NEW* Creating Happiness
Are you able to balance commitments and free time? Do you enjoy a good joke? Do you find pleasure in day-to-day events? We are led to believe that happiness is something that is either present or not but this is a myth. We all have the ability to impact the amount of happiness we experience. In this program we teach you the structure of happiness and help build the skills for you to generate or increase the happiness in your life. Who doesn’t want to be happier?
In the workshop we consider:
- Setting goals & looking at solutions
- Life’s simple joys
- Healthy living
- Authentic living
- Looking at your strengths
- Forgiving & letting go
- Mindfulness
- Creativity
Format: Group class every Thursday starting May 1st, 2013 from 10am to 11:30am
Interested in this program? Call 780-997-0046 or complete the online form
Knowing Your Relationship Style
Having trouble with being in a relationship? Are you sabotaging your relationships? This workshop focuses on an individual’s communication style within a partner relationship. It reviews “how to be” in a relationship, gives skills on how to identify individual contributions to relationship patterns, and techniques focused on changing relationship patterns starting with yourself. You will learn how to establish healthy relationship boundaries and be able to consider some ways you may be unintentionally sabotaging your relationship.
Format: One 2 hour group class
Interested in this program? Call 780-997-0046 or complete the online form
Assert Yourself
Need advice on how to be more assertive? This workshop identifies multiple communication styles and reviews pros and cons of each one. You will learn to identify communication styles in others and focus their communication on a goal to increase the ability to find resolution. Barriers to effective assertiveness and myths about assertiveness will also be discussed. This workshop incorporates practice using healthy assertive communication.
Format: One 2 hour group class
Interested in this program? Call 780-997-0046 or complete the online form
Stress Management
Managing stress can sometimes feel like a continual balancing act. Help effectively reduce and manage the stress in your life at this small group class which is designed to help you to become more aware of what stress is, how it affects your life and to take away some strategies and techniques that you may find helpful in managing stress in your life.
Format: Two part 2 hour group class
Interested in this program? Call 780-997-0046 or complete the online form
Mental Health First Aid
Research shows that at some point in their lives, mental health problems affect one in three Canadians. While thousands of people across the country know how to provide first aid to someone with a physical injury, a lot fewer people are able to recognize the signs of someone needing mental health first aid. Participants will learn how to provide initial help to people who are showing signs of a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis. It also dispels common myths surrounding mental health problems and reduces the stigma around mental illness.
Format: Two day group training session
Interested in this program? Call 780-997-0046 or complete the online form
Psychiatry Consultation
The Alberta Heartland Primary Care Network is working with a psychiatrist to enhance mental health support available to patients. Your family physician will first refer you to our mental health support team. This team will assess your needs and ensure you are referred to the most appropriate resources.
If you are referred for a consultation with a psychiatrist for assessment, diagnosis or treatment, the psychiatrist will work with the mental health support team to develop a treatment plan. Your family physician will be involved in your ongoing treatment.
Format: Consultations with psychiatrist
Cost: Free to patients of Alberta Heartland PCN physicians
Interested in this program? Talk to your family physician.