Stress Awareness Month

April is Stress Awareness Month, shedding light on the importance of understanding and managing stress. At the library, we offer a range of books to help our community better comprehend and cope with stress. Let’s prioritize self-care and promote a healthier, happier community together.

Library Bulletin

Stress and Burnout

With thanks to our colleagues at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust the July edition of the current awareness bulletin for stress and burnout is now available to view and download. The links to abstracts have been activated in this bulletin and if you click on the title, it will lead you to the abstract.  

Some of the references contained in the bulletin may be an Open Access reference, which will be available for you download and some may be available to download via your Athens Account login. Some of the references may be an abstract only, and the full text will have to be requested directly from the library.  Please get in touch with academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk for any queries or support.

Library Bulletin

Stress and Burnout

The current bulletin for Stress and Burnout, produced by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, is now available to view and download here.

For support accessing any of the articles within the bulletin please contact: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

Library Bulletin

Stress and Burnout

The current bulletin for Stress and Burnout, produced by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, is now available to view and download here.

For support accessing any of the articles within the bulletin please contact: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

Library Bulletin

Stress and Burnout

The current bulletin for Stress and Burnout, produced by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, is now available to view and download here.

For support accessing any of the articles within the bulletin please contact: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

Emotional Support

Online resources – Calm meditation app

Calm produces meditation products, including guided meditations and Sleep Stories and can help with self improvement, reducing stress and anxiety and improving sleep quality and focus.

Read more about Calm and sign up here.

Public Libraries

September Reading for Health Book of the Month: How to cope: the welcoming approach to life’s challenges by Dr. Claire Hayes

‘Life can be demanding enough without us causing ourselves greater upset because we “don’t feel happy”. Instead, let’s welcome all our feelings of distress, all our thoughts and beliefs about life’s challenges, and focus on transforming these in a way that is helpful for us.’

In How to Cope, psychologist and clinical director of depression awareness charity Aware Dr Claire Hayes takes a good look at our thoughts and how they can affect us, demonstrating how each of us can use cognitive behavioural principles to help us cope. In a very clear, practical way she shows us how to make sense of our distressing feelings, to become aware of our unhelpful thoughts and our core beliefs, and most of all, to focus on what we can actually do to improve things for ourselves. Rather than trying to suppress or ignore negative thoughts and feelings of distress, she invites us to welcome them as messengers asking us to do something helpful to improve things.

Using her unique techniques such as the ‘Coping Triangle’ and ‘Coping Sentences’, Dr Hayes shows us how to proactively manage life’s challenges, such as pressure, rejection, loss, failure, success and change. Real-life case studies illustrate the success of Dr Hayes’s approach, while practical exercises and advice make it accessible to all readers. How to Cope is the ideal book is for anyone who has suffered from stress, anxiety or depression, and for their friends and family.

The book is currently available for free on the Borrow Box app as an eBook and eAudiobook. It is one of the public library’s always available titles, so it means that you won’t have to queue to borrow the book – just download it instantly. To access this, you will just need a Lancashire Library card (you can apply here if you don’t already have one) and download the Borrow Box app for free from the Google Play or App Store. Alternatively, you could also reserve a physical copy from one of the reopened libraries.