Mental Health Part 1: Helping Conversationally - Roundtable

This Roundtable begins with a brief summary of the 'Mental Health: Helping Conversationally' podcast, highlighting the use of the 'OARS" technique to quickly establish rapport and to encourage professional assistance to people struggling with ill mental health. Topics discussed in the Roundtable include: how to deal with people's reluctance to talk by 1. using obervabe facts, 2. by having follow-up conversations, and 3. by adopting a relaxed, matter-of-fact demeanour; using OARS more generally in life to generate 'Great Conversations' in which people experience being heard, understood and accepted; and how the helping conversation is an antidote for people imprisoned by their way of thinking.