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"Peaasi.ee e-consultation, web platform and
digital solutions on mental health for Estonian
youth"

• Anna-Kaisa Oidermaa, project manager
• NGO Peaasjad
• 03.12.2014.,Tallinn

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NGO Peaasjad (Head Matters)

• NGO Peaasjad (Head Matters) since 2009.
• Mission To improve young peoples mental health
  and reduce mental health stigma in Estonia.
• Team members (mental health specialists
  psychologists, clinical psychologists,
  psychiatrists, psychotherapists, mental health
  nurse, occupational therapist. Youth work
  specialists youth workers, trainers.
  Semiotician, public relations consultant,
  designer, et al)
• Web portal Peaasi.ee Young people can be reached
  on the Internet.

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Project "Peaasi.ee e-consultation, web
platform and digital solutions on mental health
for Estonian youth"

• Main goals  
• to raise awareness of mental health topics among
  young people and people working with young
  people, decrease the stigmatisation of people
  with mental health problems
• support better access to mental health services
  by fostering help-seeking behaviour
• prevent and relieve mental health problems,
  facilitate early interventions.
• - Target group young people 14-26. Secondary
  target groups teachers, youth workers, parents,
  mental health specialists, friends, family.
• Main actions e-counseling, interactive self-help
  tools, brain training exercises, starting
  conversations on mental health.
• Funded by The project is financed by Norway
  Grants 2009-2014 Public Health Initiatives
  programme. The programme operator in Estonia is
  the Ministry of Social Affairs.

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e-counseling

• Counselors are specialists with clinical
  experience
• - Help to define the problem
• - How, where and what kind of specialist to get
  help from
• - Advice on what to do in the moment to increase
  mental well-being.

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Interactive self-help tools

• Based on cognitive-behavioral therapy and
  Peaasi.ee team members clinical experience
• On the web or in the form of apps
• For young people who have diagnoses of disorders
• For young people who have any distressing
  symptoms
• Address some of the most common problems (Fear
  Fighter, The Boss of Anger, Thought Tamer, etc)

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Brain training exercises

• Based on neuropsychology and cognitive
  remediation therapy
• For young people who have deterioration in
  cognitive functions due to psychiatric illness
  (depression, schizophrenia, ADHD, autism spectrum
  disorders)
• For young people who want to improve cognitive
  functioning (memory, attention, etc)

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Starting conversations, dialogues on mental
health

• Raising awareness, helping to form attitudes, to
  find appropriate behaviours
• With young people
• With teachers
• With youth workers
• With parents
• With media
• With artists
• With anyone who has mental health
• - Seminars, lectures, trainings, articles, web
  and social media...

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• Peaasi.ee Partners

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anna-kaisa.oidermaa_at_peaasi.ee