Looking after yourself during Coronavirus

General advice

• Updates and guidance from our Recovery College
• Mental health support for NHS colleagues dealing with the Coronavirus outbreak - NHS England
• Every Mind Matters: How to look after your mental wellbeing while staying at home - NHS
• Looking after your mental health during the Coronavirus outbreak – Mental Health Foundation
• Coronavirus and your wellbeing - Mind

Advice for people with dementia

• Coronavirus: Information for people affected by dementia - Alzheimers Society
• Coronavirus and young onset dementia - Young Dementia UK

Advice for people with Learning Disabilities

• Resources about Coronavirus - Mencap
• Easy Read resources - Surrey County Council

We have also created a series of videos to help people with Learning Disabilities and their carers manage during this crisis.

All these videos and others are available on the Trust's YouTube channel, or click on any of the links below to view a specific video.

Videos for people with Learning Disabilities:

• Explaining Coronavirus for people with Learning Disabilities
• I think I have Coronavirus
• Explaining social distancing for people with Learning Disabilities
• Anxiety and the body
• Five things to do when feeling anxious
• Five seconds breathing exercise
• Balloon breathing exercise
• Breathing exercise using your imagination
• Explaining mindfulness and the 5 things exercise
• My relaxing place exercise
• Explaining the new normal for people with learning disabilities
• How shops are different because of the coronavirus
• Having a Swab Test Taken
• Wearing a face mask
• Managing Feelings after somebody has died
• Explaining a Local Lockdown to People with Learning Disabilities

Videos for carers:

• Introduction to videos for carers of people with learning disabilities
• What is Anxiety and Advice for Trying Strategies with the Person You Care For
• Talking Together About Coronavirus
• Supporting the Person You Care For: Anxiety about coronavirus
• Supporting the Person You Care For: Breathing, mindfulness and relaxation techniques 
• Supporting Others to Structure their day
• Anxiety techniques for you
• Maintaining wellbeing through a varied routine
• Managing worries about illness or death
• Relationships 1: Living together at home during lockdown.
  • This short handout accompanies the video (PDF).
• Relationships 2: Living apart during lockdown
• Understanding Behaviours that Challenge
• Bereavement

Advice for children, young people and their parents/carers

• Resource pack for parents and carers - contains information and resources to support your family through the transition back to school.
• Young person's resource pack - resources to support you through the relaxing lockdown phases and changes that COVID-19 has brought to your lives.

You may find the following video resources useful:

• What is anxiety? Helping you support your child
• Strategies for Managing Anxiety. Helping you to support your child
• Transitions to a new school: COVID-19. Helping you to support your child
• Returning to school following lockdown and COVID-19. Helping you to support your child
• Anxiety in the context of COVID-19. Helping you to support your child

Other resources

• Early Intervention Resource Pack for Schools - CAMHS and CFHS
• Managing the Transition for Year 2, 6, 11, and more following Covid-19 - A resource pack for schools, familes and carers from Surrey and Borders
• Information for parents and carers - Surrey Family Information Service
• Children's guide to coronavirus - the Children's Commissioner
• Boloh - The Black and Asian family Covid-19 Helpline. Black and Asian children, young people and families affected by Covid-19 can speak to them: about their worries, their problems and their stresses during this time. Between Monday and Friday, 1pm and 8pm, they will provide emotional support, advice and signposting to other organisations who can provide further help.
• Advice for parents during coronavirus - Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
• Talking to your children about coronavirus – Young Minds
• Looking after your mental health while self-isolating – Young Minds
• Supporting young people's mental health during periods of disruption - Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families
• Guidance for parents and carers on supporting children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak - Public Health England
• Newsround: Your coronavirus questions answered - BBC
• Kooth online support poster - details of support available from the Kooth charity
• Helping children cope with stress during the Coronavirus outbreak - World Health Organization