Our goals

"All together in the interest of the patient" 

• Providing information to patients to help them for better understanding of their disorders 
• Giving each person the means of being active in his/her healthcare and learning how to manage his/her disorder "so that the patient becomes more active in his own health"
• Helping patients to be directed towards specialist consultations, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, or other health care specialists with different and complementary specialties
• Proposing help through various online services and means of communication.
• Collaborating with general physicians, psychiatrists, health care specialists in the interest of the patient

• Promoting the exchange and complementarity of different stakeholders 
• Facilitating the access to information with explanations written by specialists and experts 
• Integrating real-life experiences in the “useful information” 

"Helping for re-employment of patients"

• Advising on employment opportunities adapted to the disorders and state of health (stability level, independence, potential, organizational constraints, relationship quality ,...)
• Propose professionnel assessments and if necessary to accompany the professional reorientation
• Making easier and coach the return to work (interview preparation, regaining confidence, self-appreciation,...)
• Developing partnerships with managers who have been affected by mood disorders or are still experiencing mood disorders
• Facilitating the matching between supply and demand taking into account the constraints related with mood disorders

"Supporting companies to better help and manage persons suffering from mood disorders"

• Organizing innovative information and awareness campaigns to better understand mood disorders and starting factors such as stress, crisis situations, discrediting, moral harassing, etc... 
• Developing creative potential of employees suffering from mood disorders 
• Advising about creativity development : tools and methods
• Training management methods which suit to creative people suffering from mood disorders
• Meeting better the needs, with a combination of specialities : using  at best the complementarity between the traditional consulting and psychology and behavior specialists. For example, BURN OUT or overloading and overflow: an organizational problem or a behavior problem and assertiveness problem ? More and more the combination of both ... 

• Proposing "customized" teams with complementary specialists (consultants, experts, psychologists, psychotherapists, from different specialties). Using at best the complementarity between traditional consultants and psychology and behavior specialists, to deal with traditional subjects such as management, organization, etc... 

"Detecting the creative and artistic potentials, encourage and promote talents of the patients" 

• Exploring the artistic talents of patients 
• Advising, guiding, improving and developing: coaching - artistic direction
• Assisting and negotiating (a contract of representation, virtual gallery, art-therapy) 
• Promoting the talents of patients and showing their artistic works: Virtual gallery 
• Organize art therapy workshops

** Reader information : This section is mostly inspired of real-life experiences, and was written by the editorial staff of the Mood Institute, exclusively composed with patients - The members of the Medical and Scientific Committee are regularly asked to provide an advisory opinion - Last update : 03/25/2012