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The Mindset Institute joined the local Alliance Against Depression.

The Mindset Institute has joined the Alliance Against Depression. This initiative is an informal alliance established within the framework of cooperating municipalities: Góra Kalwaria, Piaseczno, Lesznowola, Konstancin-Jeziorna, Prażmów and Tarczyn.

The Mindset Institute has joined the Alliance Against Depression. This initiative is an informal alliance established within the framework of cooperating municipalities: Góra Kalwaria, Piaseczno, Lesznowola, Konstancin-Jeziorna, Prażmów and Tarczyn. The aim of the alliance is to locally support mental health and well-being of children and young people, adults, including seniors, promote mental health in the workplace and take into account the issue of mental health in crisis situations. The declaration is also a commitment to use the good practices of the European Commission and the World Health Organization in disseminating knowledge about the diagnosis and treatment of depression, but also to personal involvement and sharing our resources. 

As part of cooperation with local institutions and our own activities, we will support local residents in the area of ​​free psychological consultations, psychoeducation in the form of development workshops and by creating a supportive community of parents.

You can read more about the Alliance at: https://piaseczno.pl/alians-przeciw-depresji-powiat-piaseczynski/

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Free Cosultations

Mindset Institute provides free consultations to parents of children experiencing a mental health crisis. Consultations are held online or in-person.

The Mindset Institute provides free consultations to parents of children experiencing a mental health crisis. Consultations are held online or in-person.

The range of support in the consultation includes:

  • counseling and assistance in making an appointment with a psychologist, psychotherapist, psychiatrist or other mental health professional
  • psycho-educational support
  • social support – referral to appropriate, dedicated support groups
  • counseling on identifying the needs of parents and children
  • counseling on building mental well-being

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KALEIDOSCOPES

The Mindset Institute conducts and develops art therapy-type activities in children’s inpatient psychiatric wards at teaching hospitals.

The Mindset Institute conducts and develops art therapy-type activities in children’s inpatient psychiatric wards at hospitals. The program is implemented under the name “Kaleidoscopes.”

We believe in the fact that the more difficult moments in children’s lives and hospital stays, is a temporary situation and can change like pictures in a kaleidoscope. The name of the class therefore refers to seeing the world in all colors, sometimes bright and colorful, and sometimes darker. Similarly, in life there are easier and more difficult situations. Through art classes we teach children these simple truths.  Kaleidoscopes creates a space for safe expression of emotions, relaxation and building relationships with other patients.

We are currently conducting art therapy workshops at the UCK Department of Developmental Age Psychiatry of the Medical University of Warsaw. The classes are attended each time by a group of a dozen children and adolescents under the guidance and support of Mindset volunteers – psychologists, psychotherapists and psychology students. The classes are popular among young patients, detached during their hospital stay from the regular rhythm of school activities.

It should be added that the public budget for such activities in closed child psychiatric wards is very limited, making the offer of classes for young patients in hospitals minimal or even non-existent.

Mindset, after developing and describing an optimal template and handouts for such classes, has plans to expand them to more closed child psychiatric wards in Poland.

Look here and on our social media for updates!

Contact:

Magdalena Mazurkiewicz – Skuza
m.mazurkiewicz.skuza@mindset.org.pl