Resources & files: Documents
Webinar 10: Situational Assessments
Webinar 10: Situational Assessment Proposal Sample
Webinar 10: My Disability Management Plan
Webinar 10: Engagement & Discovery for Employment Success
Slides for second Employment Initiatives webinar session w/ Chris Arnold and Christine Buchanan.
Webinar 9: PSR & Employment Competencies Slides
Webinar 8: Wellness Slides
Psychosis 2.0 Conference Presentation
Psychosis 2.0: New understandings and effective ways of working with and healing from psychosis presentation slides from September 2014.
Spiritual Conversation Guidelines for Community Mental Health and Addiction Professionals
These spiritual guidelines support the work of Mental Health and Addiction Professionals (MH&AP) at Vancouver Community Mental Health and Addiction Services. MH&AP are required to engage in spirituality conversations with clients unless clinically contraindicated. This document intends to expand professionals’ knowledge and skill in engaging in their own understanding of spirituality and that of their clients. We acknowledge and honour the fact that MH&AP in the system vary in their understanding of, use of, and comfort with, spirituality.
Engaging Mental Health Services in Spirituality Conversations: A Spirituality Poster and Café Spirit
Spirituality can be an important resource for mental health recovery. Yet barriers exist in integrating spirituality into mental health services. This article describes a spirituality quality-improvement project that engaged the system using strategic spirituality dialogue. We formed an advisory committee; developed a spirituality framework/poster; facilitated dialogue among consumers, families, and mental health professionals in focus groups; and hosted a Café Spirituality. The findings highlight the need to create safe places for spirituality dialogue.
Hope and Fear: Consumers, Psychiatric Medications and the Therapeutic Relationship
This study explores the role psychiatric medication plays in the lives of mental health consumers, and, in particular, how this experience of taking medication is affected by the relationship with the prescribing physician. Rather than concentrating exclusively on issues of adherence/nonadherence to medication regimens, as other studies have done, our goal was to unveil the complex lived experiences of consumers, their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviour as they pertain to medications and the therapeutic relationship. It is hoped that the study findings will add to the knowledge base and understanding of participants’ experiences, empower consumers and raise practitioners’ awareness so as to promote increased collaboration in the treatment process.