Video Category: Recorded Webinars

The BC PSR Advanced Practice is pleased to offer a webinar wherein two Vancouver-based workplace and health law experts will guide a discussion centering on various aspects related to workplace law and mental health, including: o Mental health and discrimination; o Pre-employment and the recruitment process; o Duty to accommodate in employment; o Mental illness and workplace stigma.

The BC PSR Advanced Practice is pleased to offer a webinar that explores recent and current research specific to occupational recovery after first episode psychosis in young adults 18-29 yrs. Included will be a discussion on substance abuse during this developmental stage of life.

The BC PSR Advanced Practice is pleased to offer a webinar that draws on work within the disability field. This session looks specifically at finding and developing a job for individuals that you support. Looking at the actual approach or strategy for taking what you have learned about the individual through the engagement and discovery process and identifying potential opportunities with employers in the community.

Webinar participants will be introduced to the Guidelines for Recovery-Oriented Practice and presenters will explore implications for practice and similarities with PSR competencies.

Fraser Health has adopted the Recovery Centred Clinical System in its tertiary and housing programs. Angela Louie will introduce the model (created by Telecare Corporation) and describe the experience of adopting and implementing this model in both the tertiary and housing programs. She will outline some of the factors that helped and also some of the challenges in its continued implementation.

This session will outline the basic history and development of peer services in Recovery-Oriented, PSR practice settings. The range of existing Peer Support roles will be outlined, with discussion of strengths and challenges of the model, presented from a direct service and systems perspective.

Presented as part of this year’s PSR/RPS Canada National Conference in Toronto, this workshop will describe an innovative Canadian platform specifically designed to support learning and advance recovery-oriented PSR practice while building strong community partnerships with people with lived experience, practitioners, researchers, educators, students and administrators.

According to PSR / RPS Canada (2013) practitioners are required to have competencies to assesses individual needs, create PSR and recovery oriented service plans and measure outcomes. Thus, being able to administer a strength-based assessment is an essential first step in order to best help the person recover.

This session describes new Canadian Recovery-Orientated Psychosocial Competencies of Practice for Rehabilitation Practitioners developed by PSR / RPS Canada. Following a brief overview of PSR / RPS Canada, the webinar establishes the importance of defining core Competencies in recovery-orientated practice; provides an overview of the development of the Competencies of Practice for Canadian Psychosocial Rehabilitation; introduces the Core competencies; finally, suggestions on how to implement the competencies are offered followed by time for questions and answers.

Originally broadcast on March 27th, 2014, with presenters Vicky Huehn, Dr. Regina Casey, and Dorothy Edem, this was a special partnership between the BC PSR Advanced Practice and PSR/RPS Canada.