A "Gift Box" approach to wellbeing and why we all need it
Patte Randal
Retired from Auckland District Health Board/Self-employed
Dr Patte Randal LRCP MRCS D Phil has personal experience of recovery from psychosis, is trained in Psychiatry, and worked as Medical Officer in Rehabilitation Psychiatry at Buchanan Rehabilitation Centre ADHB, Auckland for 18 years. She developed and co-facilitated Understanding Ourselves Groups as well as a focused collaborative intervention to support people in their journey of self-discovery. She continues to work collaboratively with individuals and their families in the community, who experience the enduring consequences of trauma such as work-place bullying, and other extreme states such as psychosis, to facilitate self-understanding and to assist in developing a life worth living. She has taught the “Re-covery Model” to clinicians of all disciplines, the people they serve and their families. She has published research on recovery-focussed multimodal therapy for people with psychosis, is first author of the “Re-covery Model” (Randal et al 2009), and is co-editor and co-author of an ISPS book
Abstract
Aim To present a "Gift Box" - the culmination of 30 years work, including formal research, informal action research, clinical experience and personal lived experience of recovery from extreme states/psychosis. This... [ view full abstract ]
Aim
To present a "Gift Box" - the culmination of 30 years work, including formal research, informal action research, clinical experience and personal lived experience of recovery from extreme states/psychosis. This "Gift Box" has been developed collaboratively with colleagues, friends and many of the people we have served and contains resources that can assist practitioners, people with lived experience of psychosis and their loved ones, to collaboratively formulate and understand the journey of "re-covery" in ways that enhance victorious cycles rather than repeating vicious cycles as so often happens in current mental health services.
Method
I will explain how the "Re-covery Model" works, demonstrate the use of the resources in the "Gift Box" and present feedback from recent workshops where this approach has been taught.
Results
The "Gift Box" contains a practical toolkit that has been shown to be easily taught, understood and taken up by clinicians, the people they serve, peer workers and family members. It has proven effective in helping to create a conceptual framework for understanding psychosis and other extreme states as experiences that develop in a cultural, social, psychological and spiritual context that manifest in our biological responses, and how these responses can be modified by applying this perspective. This is a paradigm shift in thinking about psychosis, akin to and supporting views held by many in ISPS.
Conclusions
The "Gift Box" contains a simple conceptual framework and toolkit that help create understanding of complex interactions, and helps operationalise a truly collaborative, person-centred approach to attaining wellbeing after extreme states including psychosis. It has the potential to add significantly to the armamentarium of resources that can assist us to offer an alternative, hope-filled, healing approach to psychosis.
Authors
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Patte Randal
(Retired from Auckland District Health Board/Self-employed)
Topic Areas
Other overaching themes and conceptual issues , Other individual therapies , Other approaches to working for change
Session
THPM2 PRE » Papers: Recovery (17:05 - Thursday, 31st August, CT Hub, Lecture Theatre B)
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