A "Gift Box" to help establish and enhance wellbeing
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" of resources, a practical toolkit developed to enhance victorious cycles rather than repeating vicious cycles as so often happens in current mental health services Method ... [ view full abstract ]
Aim
To present a "Gift Box" of resources, a practical toolkit developed to enhance victorious cycles rather than repeating vicious cycles as so often happens in current mental health services
Method
This "Gift Box" has been developed collaboratively with colleagues, friends and many of the people we serve. It represents the culmination of 30 years work, including formal research, informal action research, clinical experience and personal lived experience of recovery from extreme states/psychosis.
In this workshop I will demonstrate the use of the resources in the "Gift Box" and present feedback from recent workshops where this approach has been taught.
Results
Participants will come away with the resources to use the “Gift Box” in their own lives, practices and to support others. They will learn how to build a bridge of trust; explain the dynamics of the "Re-covery Model"; use the "feelometer" effectively to support solution-focussed change; and use the card-sort to help identify actions, thoughts, feelings and body sensations collaboratively to create a pathway to wellbeing.
Conclusions
The "Gift Box" contains a simple conceptual framework and toolkit that help develop understanding of complex interactions between cultural, spiritual, social, psychological and biological responses that result in psychosis. It operationalises a truly collaborative, person-centred approach to attaining wellbeing. 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. It can help create the paradigm shift in understanding that ISPS supports.
Whether we are clinicians, people experiencing extreme states, family members and loved ones, or all the above, we share the human condition. We are all becoming experts by experience in our own lives and we can achieve greater wellbeing by adopting a more human approach. The "Gift Box" can help provide this gift for one another.
Authors
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Patte Randal
(Retired from Auckland District Health Board/Self-employed)
Topic Areas
Behavioural and cognitive behavioural family interventions , Individual cognitive behavioural therapies and related approaches , Experts by experience
Session
THPM1 WOT » Workshop: Other Therapeutic Approaches (14:00 - Thursday, 31st August, CT Hub, G-Flex Room)
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