The key to good mental health is similar to good physical health: monitoring and management. We can learn to recognise and monitor our own thoughts, feelings and behaviours, and then use skills to manage ourselves and make effective changes as required.
You can study The Decider Skills for Self Help (32 or 12 skills) in your own time, at any time - about 6 or 20 hours of study at your own pace.
The Decider Skills are a stand-alone intervention to enable you to make positive changes in your life.
They will also give you a firm foundation if you decide to start individual therapy. The Decider Skills complement all therapy approaches.
The Decider Skills enable you to:
- Face common life challenges
- Make sense of problems
- Make positive changes in how you think and react
- Tolerate distress
- Be more mindful
- Manage emotions including anxiety, low mood, anger and stress
- Improve communication and relationships
- Increase resilience and wellbeing
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"I have been working through the skills and they ARE BRILLANT! They have already made a difference in my life and thinking, and I am changing how I deal with distressing situations. Thank you so much." MF (May 2021)
The Course includes:
- The Decider Skills for Self Help book
- 3 months course access
- Introduction to The Decider Skills & CBT
- The FIZZ
- All 32 therapeutic Skills
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Each skill includes:
- Introduction
- Teaching
- Real life examples
- Videos
- Exercises and reflections
After completion of the course you may also access:
- Assessment & Certificate of Completion
- The Decider Skills webapp
- The Decider Skills animated videos
All course videos include optional subtitles.
Individual follow up session with a therapist (via telephone or video call) available separately
Organisations can contact us for bulk order discounts
After payment, we will set up your online course account and you will receive an automated email with your login details. Sometimes this automated email is diverted by over-zealous spam filters. If you don't receive the email or have lost your login details:
- Your unique username and password will have been emailed to you.
- Your username is your email address.
- if you have forgotten or lost your password, please click on the Login link below, enter your email address (username) then click "forgot / reset password" - a new password will be emailed to you.
Login page
"The course is helping me. I feel in a better place with it." SM (September 2020)
The Course includes:
- The Decider Life Skills for Self Help book
- 3 months course access
- Introduction to The Decider Skills & CBT
- The FIZZ
- 12 Life Skills
- Each skill includes:
- Introduction
- Teaching
- Real life examples
- Videos
- Exercises and reflections
After completion of the course you may also access:
- Assessment & Certificate of Completion
- The Decider Skills webapp
- The Decider Skills animated videos
All course videos include optional subtitles.
Individual follow up session with a therapist (via telephone or video call) available separately
Organisations can contact us for bulk order discounts
After payment, we will set up your online course account and you will receive an automated email with your login details. Sometimes this automated email is diverted by over-zealous spam filters. If you don't receive an email:
- Check your spam folder
- Go to login.thedecider.org.uk and enter your email address, then click on "forgot password" (then check your spam folder again)
The Decider Skills for Self Help for NHS Trusts / Organisations / Charities
The Decider Skills for Self Help online course also available at discounted rate for organisations purchasing for multiple clients. Please contact us for details
See the Online Solutions page for implementation guidance
I was lucky enough to have received the 32 skills through my psychiatric nurse last year. This course has genuinely changed my life and I use the principles every single day. 2 decades of mental health issues and this course was the turning point for me. I was given the tools to identify why I acted and felt the way I did. I now plan to continually improve my skills and use them with my two young children. Thank you so much for developing this amazing and genuinely life saving set of skills. Kim from Lothian
More about The Decider Skills here
The Decider Skills for Self Help book available from Amazon
STOPP App
Download our IOS, Android and Windows STOPP app from your app store.
More about the STOPP App here
STOPP app demonstration video
The Decider Skills APP
Please follow links below to access the new app.
The Web App - accessible from any device
Resilient Ratties books for children are available from www.resilientrattiesbooks.com