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pleased that she is at college because she is getting out of the house and not so
depressed.

Lydia feels she has become more tolerant and understanding of others’ positions:

this year we’re going on holiday with my sister’s family. I would never have
thought of it in the past. I wanted it to be me on my own or with my family and
just shut off the world you know and they want to be with people so they wanted
to go with us, so we said OK we’ll all go together’ and that’s a bit of a
compromise on my part because it means having to work - you know, do things
with other people. What they want rather than what we want and the time factor
is never great on a holiday because there’s only a couple of weeks so it meant
now I’m more tolerant and more sharing.

At a different level, Gloria had suffered domestic violence at the hands of her
children’s father, and left him. He stopped drinking and regained his driving licence.
They seem now to be back together, or at least in communication:

It [the course] turned my life around a lot. I’ve seen a lot from the children’s
father, a lot of hassles that he’s given me. I used to just sit and take it, but I
don’t anymore. I’ve seen a different side to him as well. It’s like somebody has
switched the light on.

That metaphor puts the effect well towards the transforming end of the sustaining-
transforming spectrum. Yet it is clear how much covert influence education has in
sustaining, and gradually improving, family relationships.

8. Health

Different kinds of health effect overlap and interact with each other considerably.
There is significantly more evidence on mental and psychological health effects than
on physical ones.

As identified in the matrix in Figure 2 (p. 12), there is a continuum of effects from the
preventive/sustaining to the curative/transformational. Just as education plays a role in
protecting mental health, it is also important in assisting in the recovery of individuals
who have experienced a mental health breakdown. Education aids both protection of
and recovery from mental health through:

Individual

n - providing distraction from problems;

- providing a vehicle for self-expression and catharsis;

- re-establishing the ability to relax;

- providing a structure;

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