The Facilitated Self-Help Guide describes a helping model for use by professionals during the challenging times. A professionally-facilitated model, it utilizes technologies like secure videoconferencing, to deliver a range of stress reduction and behavioral health strategies based on cognitive-behavioral principles. Minimalist in orientation, this stepped care model promotes self-reliance and builds on resilience. Help is assessed by a professional facilitator who collaboratively adapts and designs strategies, relying when possible on trying self-administered self-help first. The guide applies the model across a range of presenting issues encountered during these challenging times. Illustrated examples, flowcharts and protocols are included. The guide has a detailed table of contents to aid navigation, a glossary and resource list for additional information and extensive referencing to document sources.

The Facilitated Self-Help Guide describes a helping model for use by professionals during the pandemic and beyond. A professionally-facilitated model, it respects social distancing by utilizing technologies like secure videoconferencing, to deliver a range of stress reduction and behavioral health strategies based on cognitive-behavioral principles and informed by neuroscience breakthroughs like memory reconsolidation. Minimalist in orientation, this stepped care model promotes self-reliance and builds on resilience. Help is assessed by a professional facilitator who collaboratively adapts and designs strategies, relying when possible on trying self-administered self-help first. The guide applies the model across a range of presenting issues encountered during the pandemic as well as beyond. Illustrated examples, flowcharts and protocols are included. The guide has a detailed table of contents to aid navigation, a glossary and resource list for additional information and extensive referencing to document sources.