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• Capacity building

  Individual - Enhancing and/or developing personal aptitude, strength, coping and/or independence.

  Community - The ability of a community’s organisations, groups and individuals collectively) to build their structures, systems, people and skills, so they are better able to define, implement, manage and achieve their shared objectives.

• Client-centred

  Client-centred therapy or the person-centred approach is a movement associated with humanistic psychology that emphasises ‘the capacity of each individual to arrive at a personal understanding of his or her destiny, using feelings and intuition rather than being guided by doctrine and reason. Rather than focusing on the origins of client problems in childhood events (psychodynamic) or the achievement of new patterns of behaviour in the future (behavioural), concentrate on the here and now experiencing of the client’1.

• Clinical paradigm

  This paradigm focuses on repairing damage within a disease or medical model of human functioning.

• Cognitive

  Mental processes and conscious intellectual activities such as planning, reasoning, problem solving, thinking, remembering, reasoning, learning new words or imagining.

• Connectedness

  Enquiry into protective factors for suicide has focused on the capacities within people (‘resilience factors’) and on external ‘protective factors’2, including a person’s sense of belonging and connectedness with others. There is evidence that connections with family, school or a significant adult can reduce risk of suicide for young people. Feelings of connectedness to a partner or parent or responsibility for care of children appear to be protective factors, and ‘connectedness’ within a community has been linked to health and wellbeing.

• Content

  The quality and the proportion or quantity of information adequately matched to the need.

• Continuing care

  Engagement with longer-term treatment, support and care where needed.

• Common factors

  Features of therapy that are common to success, despite the differing theoretical position of each therapist and the specific techniques used.