[NYAPRS Enews] Magellan Issues Peer Support Whole Health & Wellness Newsletter

[Harvey Rosenthal]

Magellan Peer Support Whole Health & Wellness  Fall 2012

 

Welcome to the first issue of Magellan's Peer Support Whole Health and
Wellness e-newsletter! This is just one of our new resources designed to
help you improve your health through peer support, whole health planning
and working toward wellness. This e-newsletter will be produced
quarterly and will include articles about Magellan's Peer Support Whole
Health and Resiliency initiative, along with links to resources you can
use. From time to time, we also will feature personal stories of how
Magellan's Peer Support Whole Health and Resiliency initiative has
affected people's lives. Our Arizona (Maricopa County), Iowa, Florida,
Nebraska and Pennsylvania programs have activities going on, so you will
hear about these as well. Sharing successes and ideas is one way to
promote the growth of our initiative. We hope you enjoy this first
issue! We welcome your feedback, comments and suggestions. Please
contact us at Elearning at MagellanHealth.com. Thank you! 

 

Mind-Body Resiliency: A New Role in Prevention for the Peer Workforce in
Whole Health By Larry Fricks, Director, Appalachian Consulting Group The
most common definitions of "resiliency" include "returning to an
original state" or "an occurrence of rebounding or springing back." But
in the emerging field of mind-body medicine in integrated physical
health and behavioral health, resiliency - especially in the domain of
stress management - is taking on the theme of "prevention," primarily
relapse prevention but also prevention of mind-body disease. Allow me to
use my own lived experience of recovery to explain. Read more 

 

Magellan's Peer Support Whole Health and Resiliency Initiative: An
Overview Since Sept. 2010, more than 400 certified peer specialists have
been trained in Peer Support Whole Health (PSWH) through Magellan's
partnership with Appalachian Consulting Group. Grounded on the original
core beliefs, the PSWH model has been refined to incorporate additional
elements related to resiliency and is now called Peer Support Whole
Health and Resiliency (PSWHR). Learn about the new model and about
stating goals with IMPACT. Read more 

 

Magellan Health Literacy Tools Available One of the greatest needs in
promoting good health for people is education about how to live well
with different health conditions. This sometimes is called health
literacy. Magellan has created five new resources designed to improve
health literacy as part of our Peer Support Whole Health and Wellness
toolkit. These easy-to-read materials address specific aspects of how to
manage your health, including learning how to relax. Read the new health
literacy tip sheets: 

* Cholesterol and Lifestyle 

* Diabetes - Keeping Active 

* Fast Food Tips 

* Managing Your Weight with Healthy Eating 

* Learning to Relax 

 

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