LibGuides: Subjects: Wellbeing

Alphabetical list of resources

Your health, your choices Information from the National Health Service on conditions, treatments, local services and healthy living.
NHS Choices: Find services Use the service finder to search for your nearest GP surgery, dentist, urgent care health services or other National Health Service. Try searching by service name, service type, condition or surgical procedure.
NHS 111 service 111 is the NHS non-emergency number. Call 111 when you need medical help fast but it’s not a 999 emergency and speak to a highly trained adviser, supported by healthcare professionals. They will ask you a series of questions to assess your symptoms and immediately direct you to the best medical care for you.

Stop smoking Introduction to stop smoking articles and videos. Includes NHS support services and nicotine replacement therapies.
Smokefree Information on the NHS Smokefree campaigns and a wide range of resources to help you help others quit smoking - from free materials to order or download.

There are often things we would like to change or things that we find difficult. We can use self-help techniques to help improve these areas. The resource below can help you to help yourself.

Living Life To The Full The Living Life to the Full course is a life skills course that aims to provide access to high quality, practical and user-friendly training in life skills.The course content teaches key knowledge in how to tackle and respond to issues/demands which we all meet in our everyday lives. The course has been written by a Psychiatrist who has many years of experience using a Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) approach and also in helping people use these skills in everyday life. Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based and structured form of psychotherapy that aims to alter the unhelpful thinking (cognitions) and behaviour that commonly occur during times of distress.
Mind - How to cope with student life Explains how having a mental health problem can impact upon being a student, and suggests ways of coping and where to go for support.
Moodjuice Moodjuice Forth Valley is a site design to offer information, advice to those experiencing troublesome thoughts, feelings and actions. From the site you are able to print off various self-help guides covering conditions such as depression, anxiety, stress, panic and sleep problems. In the site you can explore various aspects of you life that may be causing you some distress and at the click of a button obtain information on organisations, services and other self-help materials that can offer you support and information to help yourself.