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TalkWell publication

TalkWell second edition has new chapters on talking with people who have additional communication disadvantages such as psychosis or dementia, and on using TV for TalkWell training.

Hard copies will soon be available to buy. In the meantime, you can download your copy here:

Download a free PDF version here

Or you can buy a printed version here delivered right to your door, see below. Price: £10.97 plus postage.

TalkWell is a conversation training resource for mental health workers. It’s a lively and practical way to help your staff to:

• become better listeners
• enjoy and feel able to manage conversations about anything from Coronation Street to coping with compulsions
• have a greater awareness of what’s happening in patients’ minds and their own
• have richer relationships with patients

Over 20 practical, helpful sections cover topics such as listening skills, structuring conversations, appreciating difference, asking sensitive questions, body language and difficult conversations. And it’s crammed with exercises and ideas to help you and your team hone their conversational skills.

And if you’d like the original publication (for old time’s sake, to flog on ebay or whatever.)

TalkWell Retro Edition

PowerPoint presentation

TalkWell 2nd Edition PowerPoint


We’ve also flung together some notes about using the PowerPoint presentation. Download here.

Using TV for TalkWell training

There's even possibly the absolutely most fun and practical training resource ever, Using TV for TalkWell training

Poster

And get this!! (Er, we mean – wow, this is exciting. It isn’t an instruction to purchase a poster blatantly furthering Buddy’s modelling career. Just an option. A suggestion. A plea.) Yes, you can decorate your ward, your home, your caravan with a gorgeous poster of Buddy pawing over TalkWell. You can even customise the poster, eg adding your Trust’s logo. Even a cat.

Click here to get Buddy's poster

Evaluation of TalkWell training in Leicestershire Partnership Trust

Here's a wonderful article about how Leicestershire have not only energetically introduced TalkWell but have also equally dynamically evaluated its impact. And given staff TalkWell pens to reinforce the process.

LPT_TalkWell_Article_June_20111.pdf