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Co-Creating Health
The Self-Management Programme (SMP)
"I found the easy steps led me through my own maze of depression to a clearer view of my illness and the future"
Chris Maher, SMP participant
What is the SMP?
The aim of the SMP is to help participants to build the skills, knowledge and self belief needed to effectively manage their depression. It is hoped that participants will be able to leave the programme feeling more confident to work collaboratively with their health care professionals to achieve their personal goals and ambitions.
The SMP is free and open to anyone living in Wandsworth who experiences recurrent or persistent depression. The programme consists of weekly three-hour sessions over seven weeks. These are group sessions of approximately 9-12 people.
To book a place on a forthcoming SMP or for more information about the programme please:
- Phone Hannah on 020 8682 6006 (if there is no answer please leave a message and Hannah will call back) or
- email cocreating.health@swlstg-tr.nhs.uk
Download a leaflet about the SMP:
SMP leaflet (PDF 292 KB)
If you are clinician and would like more details on who to recommend the SMP to then download our guidance document:
SMP Guidance for Clinicians (PDF 148 KB)
How the SMP can help you
Feedback from people that have already attended the SMP has been really positive. Find out what previous participants think of the SMP: Testimonial 1 Testimonial 2
The SMP can help you to:
- learn and gain support from others who have had similiar experiences in a safe and friendly environment
- gain knowledge about self-management strategies
- build the skills needed to implement self-management principles
- feel more confident about taking control and managing depression
- feel more empowered and able to work with healthcare professionals to get the best from the services available.
Find out more:
Structure and content of the SMP
Tutor training
The SMP is delivered by a lay tutor (i.e. someone who has experience of self management and depression) and a health professional (i.e. a community psychiatric nurse). You do not have to have attended the SMP to become a lay tutor, however it is advisable.
