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Life skills for mental health, transitional populations, and ADL

A New Freedom Life Skills Curriculum covers a wide array from developing coping skills and communication skills to vocational readiness, stress management, anger management and money management.

These resources provide comprehensive programs for adults and juveniles to develop skills for daily living. The curriculum is designed to address critical life and lifestyle issues. The overall objective is to help participants improve their general health and happiness as functioning members of society.

The skills and concepts taught here are the basics of a healthy and happy life. Each lesson comprises a lesson plan with a detailed narrative for the counselor or teacher, and a handout, worksheet, or other activity for the learners. Designed to maintain attention and promote active involvement, each hour-long lesson is based on identified behavioral objectives.

HYGIENE

Introduction
A clean body
Taking care of your hair
Taking good care of your face
Taking good care of your teeth
Taking good care of your clothing
Cleaning your clothes
Worksheet: Self-care (change) action plan

NUTRITION

A simple and proper diet
Going shopping for food
Easy meals - breakfast
Easy meals - lunch
Easy meals - dinner
Easy meals - snacks
Food storage and kitchen cleanup
Eating out
Worksheet: Shopping/nutrition action plan

PERSONAL ORGANIZATION

Choosing your clothing
Get yourself together
Having a backup plan
Making use of community resources
Affirming yourself
Worksheet: Taking charge of your life: your mind, your body, your future
Worksheet: Purpose and direction
Worksheet: Taking the initiative
Worksheet: Turning points
Worksheet: What's really important to me?
Worksheet: Making changes

PHYSICAL & EMOTIONAL HEALTH

Visiting the doctor and other health care people
At the office of your doctor
After the visit
Taking your meds
How am I doing today?
What to do when you are having bad feelings
Worksheet: Stress and health
Worksheet: Making a choice
Worksheet: Where am I? (self-checklist)
Worksheet: Self-efficacy worksheet
Worksheet: Short health topics (*see list below)

MONEY MANAGEMENT

Keeping track of everyday spending
Travel expenses
Clothing costs
Household furnishings
Summary activity
When you need more money
Becoming Money Smart
Your budget
Money action plan
Worksheet: Where are you now? Where do you want to be?

INDEPENDENT LIVING

What makes a home?
Safety in your home
Safety in your neighborhood
Apartment living guidelines
Moving in
Keeping your apartment clean

LEISURE TIME

Seeking happiness and contentment
Identifying your needs and wants:
for happiness, contentment, and comfort
Making your dreams come true
Increasing the joy in your life
Your most important values
Adding balance to your life with new activities
Worksheet: Dealing with crises
Worksheet: Taking the initiative
Worksheet: Joy and humor
Worksheet: New activities
Worksheet: The basic recipe for meeting new people

HANDLING HE TOUGH TIMES

What's happened to you?
What pushes your buttons?
Living smarter. Living longer
How am I doing today?
What to do when you are having bad feelings
Get yourself together
Making use of community resources
External supports
How to be good to yourself
Handling difficult situations
Worksheet: Your internal resources
Worksheet: The rest of your life can be the best of your life
Worksheet: Let's check your confidence
Worksheet: Connections: a key protective factor

INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

Set 1:

Why we need better communication skills
Basic skills for better communication - problem identification
Basic skills for better communication
Basic skills for better communication
Becoming a better listener
Becoming a better listener
Becoming a better listener
Becoming a better listener
Learning to be assertive
Learning to be assertive
Learning to be assertive

Set 2:

Where does your anger come from?
Where does your anger come from?
Before you get angry
Where does your anger go?
How to keep out of fights
How to keep out of fights
When you are accused of something
When you are accused of something
Handling provocations
Handling provocations

Set 3:

When someone else is angry at you
Preparing yourself for a stressful conversation
When you need to express a complaint
Handling peer pressure
Offering specific help
When you have made a mistake/When others have made a mistake
Assertion skills practice: broken record
Assertion skills practice: fogging
Protecting your boundaries
Protecting your boundaries - part 2
Conflict resolution practice
Refusal skills #1 - when you can be totally honest with them
Refusal skills #2
Refusal skills #3
Using your escape skills

Set 4:

When you have set yourself up or embarrassed yourself by saying something
When you have set yourself up or embarrassed yourself by doing something
When you have not done well
Adding balance to your life with new activities
Introduction to stress management
What is stress doing to you?
How have you coped in the past?
Coping skill - Slowing it down #1
Coping skill - Warning yourself
Breathing skill for relaxation
Muscle Relaxation
Coping skill - slowing it down #2
Coping skills - the basic stop
Having a backup plan

PERSONAL PREPARATION PROGRAM (Job seeking/job maintenance)

Getting started: developing a vision of what�s possible
Let's look at your skills
What kind of work would you like to do?
Job values
Motivation: developing a positive attitude is a critical part of the process
Thinking realistically about work
Practical aspects of finding a job
Personal marketing for jobs�one step at a time
Have a Data Sheet you can bring to every contact and meeting
Resumes for certain kinds of jobs
Interviews (typically provided over two sessions)
Keeping a job!
Common interview questions, part 1
Common interview questions, part 2
Your job success skills report card
Ideal job worksheet
Role play situations
Job ethics: discussion questions
Checklist for facing the future (optional lesson)
Summary checklist

COPING SKILLS

4-7-8 Technique
Affirmations (optional skill)
Anchoring
Assessing your symptoms practice (FID)*
Deep breathing for relaxation
Distraction skills (3 parts)
Combined skills script
Creative visualization script
Muscle relaxation for relaxation
Self-soothing
Self-suggestion (for relaxation)
Thought stopping
Thought

SHORT HEALTH TOPICS

(Some are focused on the older population, others apply to everybody)

diabetes
asthma
arthritic, bones, joints
urinary tract; prostate.
bowel problems
cancers
heart, circulation
poor diet habits
consequence of poor lifestyle choices before incarceration (smoking, alcohol/drug use/.abuse)
lack of preventative and positive health care practices
infectious diseases
preparedness for aging: anticipating possible cognitive changes (slowing down, dementia, etc.)
body changes with aging (sensitivity to heat, cold, pain)
eating issues (taste, dental, swallowing, gastrointestinal, weight loss)
risks and problems associated with falls
lower level of activity
lack of exercise
deceased muscle strength; fitness
increased amounts and types of meds
changes in the nervous system (tremors, dementia stroke, Parkinsons)
vision changes
hearing loss