This article is about a holistic health education programme: The ‘Look After Yourself’ course, sponsored originally by the Health Education Council, now the Health Education Authority. A brief account is given of its aims and structure, and some of the attempts to evaluate it. This is followed by an example of an application to a specific client group, psychiatric day patients.
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