Reading List

A curated Reading List to support and extend learning from The CBT Five-Part Model for Stress Management in Care Homes.

This course uses the Five-Part Model as a CBT-informed framework for how thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, behaviours, and environmental pressures interact during stress. The resources below cover CBT, practical self-help techniques, workplace stress, care-sector wellbeing, and routes to support across the UK.

1. Care-Sector Wellbeing and Workplace Guidance

• CQC - Workforce wellbeing and enablement
  An adult social care quality statement explaining why staff wellbeing, feedback, safe working conditions, breaks, and personalised support matter for person-centred care in regulated services in England.
  https://www.cqc.org.uk/guidance-regulation/providers/assessment/single-assessment-framework/caring/workforce-wellbeing-enablement

• Skills for Care - Wellbeing resource finder
  A social care resource finder reviewed in April 2024. Useful for managers and staff looking for sector-specific resources on wellbeing, resilience, mental health, grief, bereavement and workplace culture.
  https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/Support-for-leaders-and-managers/Managing-people/Wellbeing/Workforce-wellbeing-finder/Wellbeing-resource-finder.aspx

• NICE - Mental wellbeing at work (NG212)
  UK guidance on creating conditions that support mental wellbeing at work. Clarifies that managing workplace stress involves organisational and managerial responsibilities as well as individual steps.
  https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng212

• HSE - Stress and mental health at work
  The Health and Safety Executive hub on work-related stress, risk assessment, management standards, employee help and employer responsibilities in Great Britain.
  https://www.hse.gov.uk/stress/

2. CBT and Practical Self-Help Techniques

• NHS - Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
  The NHS overview of CBT, how it works, and how thoughts, feelings, body sensations and behaviours are linked. Serves as the core official background for the model used in this course.
  https://www.nhs.uk/tests-and-treatments/cognitive-behavioural-therapy-cbt/

• NHS Every Mind Matters - Self-help CBT techniques
  A practical NHS collection of CBT-inspired tools. Not a full CBT course, but useful for managing unhelpful thoughts, improving problem solving, and supporting resilience.
  https://www.nhs.uk/every-mind-matters/mental-wellbeing-tips/self-help-cbt-techniques/

• NHS Every Mind Matters - Thought record
  A structured exercise for capturing and examining thoughts and feelings about a situation. Useful for applying the thoughts-and-emotions element of the Five-Part Model.
  https://www.nhs.uk/every-mind-matters/mental-wellbeing-tips/self-help-cbt-techniques/thought-record/

• NHS Every Mind Matters - Problem solving
  A practical guide to breaking problems down and separating solvable issues from worries outside your control. Supports the behavioural and environmental parts of the model.
  https://www.nhs.uk/every-mind-matters/mental-wellbeing-tips/self-help-cbt-techniques/problem-solving/

• NHS Every Mind Matters - Work-related stress
  A plain-language guide to work-related stress, including common emotional, thought and behaviour changes and simple in-the-moment strategies such as breathing, reframing and talking to someone you trust.
  https://www.nhs.uk/every-mind-matters/lifes-challenges/work-related-stress/

3. Social Care Workforce Resources Across the Four Nations

• England - Skills for Care wellbeing resources
  Social-care-focused resources for workforce wellbeing, including support for leaders and managers and tools to develop workplace wellbeing culture.
  https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/Support-for-leaders-and-managers/Managing-people/Wellbeing/Workforce-wellbeing-finder/Wellbeing-resource-finder.aspx

• Scotland - SSSC Workforce wellbeing
  Scottish Social Services Council resources and signposting for people working in social work, social care and children and young people's services, including the National Wellbeing Hub.
  https://www.sssc.uk.com/supporting-your-learning/workforce-wellbeing/

• Wales - Social Care Wales: Your health and well-being
  Health and wellbeing information, advice and resources for social care, early years and childcare workers in Wales, including the workforce health and wellbeing framework.
  https://socialcare.wales/resources-guidance/health-and-well-being-resources

• Northern Ireland - nidirect Workplace stress
  A Northern Ireland government resource on workplace stress, warning signs, responsibilities, and practical next steps.
  https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/workplace-stress

Use this Reading List to deepen your knowledge of the Five-Part Model, practical CBT techniques for stress, and the official support routes to consider when pressure requires more than self-help.