Resources & files: Videos
Webinar 17: Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) and Wellness Self-Management
The BC PSR Advanced Practice is pleased to offer a webinar that discusses how people can learn to self-manage their wellness using simple daily strategies to promote mental and physical health. The Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) was developed by people who experience emotional, health, and lifestyle challenges.
Douglas College PSR & Employment Promo
Webinar 9: BC PSR AP: Employment Series 1 – PSR and Employment Competencies
The BC PSR Advanced Practice is pleased to offer this first of six webinars that will explore two recently published competency frameworks of interest to employment practitioners in Canada. Competencies that shape practice include the Competencies of Practice for Canadian Recovery-Oriented Psychosocial Rehabilitation Practitioners (2013) and the Canadian Association for Supported Employment competencies (2013) published by the Disability field.
PSR Job Initiative Launch
Video recording of the BC PSR AP/Employment Initiative special series launch at Douglas College – New Westminster on November 13th, 2014. Funding generously provided by the Ministry of Advanced Education.
Webinar 8: BC PSR AP: Engaging & Supporting in Wellness
The BC PSR Advanced Practice is pleased to offer a webinar on the theoretical and practical insights into practice supporting Wellness related activities. The session gives and engaging and informative look at the eight dimensions of wellness (as outlined by SAMHSA) and how one organization is beginning to articulate their position on these topics.
The webinar originally took place on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2014, and was presented by Dr. Regina Casey, Sue Gerries, Allison Koci, & Pat Parker.
Archived webinar info can be found at http://www.psyrehab.ca/events/show/a0143
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PSR/RPS Canada National Conference 2015 – Keynote: Dr. Patrick Corrigan
Recording of the concluding keynote address, speaking on stigma elimination and anti-stigma campaigns, Dr. Patrick Corrigan, Illinois Institute of Technology. This recording is brought to you by the British Columbia Psychosocial Rehabilitation Advanced Practice, in partnership with PSR/RPS Canada. Original content delivery date: September 23rd, 2014 in Toronto, Ontario.
Shared Decision-Making Approaches for Medication Management in the Recovery Process
The second day of the four-day continuing medical education seminar The Challenge of Promoting Health in Persons with Serious Mental Illness: From Science to Service is titled Mental Health Treatment and Health Promotion: Effecting Lifestyle Changes, Part 2.
Recovery Vision: New paradigm, new questions, new answers
An event for World Health Day 2001 In the last century it was believed that people with severe mental illnesses could not recover. Recent research has shown that the typical course of severe mental illnesses is, in fact, toward recovery rather than toward deterioration over time.
Recovery and the role of Consumer Movement
Judith Chamberlin responds to question of “What is Recovery?” She describes how the concept developed within the consumer/survivor movement, some of the changes which occurred over time. She comments on the consensus statement and ten elements of recovery as published by SAMHSA. Dr. Farkas develops the theme of “What is a Recovery Oriented Program?”
Principled Leadership in Public Mental Health
Clearly leaders in public mental health must assume many roles, deal with many constituents and answer to a variety of funding sources. The role of public mental health agencies is also complex. They have responsibilities to provide treatment, rehabilitation, housing, case management and many other practical supports but the agencies at the same time provides services and settings designed for safety and risk management.