Psychosocial Skills Workshop:
Tracks
Thalie
| Thursday, November 7, 2019 |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM |
| Thalie |
Overview
Psychosocial care is ‘everyone’s business’- enhancing knowledge and skills for everyday practice using the Emotional Wellbeing Toolkit
Speaker
Ms Annalisa Dezarnaulds
Snr Clinical Psychologist/ Nsw State Spinal Injury Psychosocial Strategy Coorinator
Prince Of Wales Hospital- Spinal Injuries Unit
Psychosocial Skills Development Workshop: Psychosocial care is ‘everyone’s business’- enhancing knowledge and skills for everyday practice using the Emotional Wellbeing Toolkit: A Clinician’s Guide to Working with Spinal Cord Injury.
Abstract
Introduction:
Spinal Cord injury is a complex condition from a medical, physical and psychological perspective. The NSW State Spinal Cord Injury Service (SSCIS) in Australia established a Psychosocial Strategy following Professor Paul Kennedy’s visit to Australia in 2006 to advocate for the importance of psychosocial issues for those adjusting to and living with a spinal cord injury. Professor Kennedy defined the importance of psychosocial interventions for those adjusting to, and living with, a spinal cord injury (SCI). Most notably, he suggested that appropriate, confident and consistent psychosocial care was ‘everyone’s business’, not only the domain of psychology, social work or psychiatry.
Incorporating the Model of Adjustment (Middleton & Craig, 2008; Craig, Tran & Middleton, 2017), and with the use of a case presentation, participants in small groups will be asked to identify psychosocial issues, answer questions and formulate an intervention plan using the Emotional Wellbeing Toolkit*. Participants are then be asked to identify their use of Brief Clinical Tools, embedded in the Toolkit, that would be used when engaging with this patient, supporting consistent practice across all sectors. In addition, helpful and un-help ways of engaging around challenging behaviours will be demonstrated using ‘role plays’ and then practiced in small groups.
The clinical utility of The Emotional Wellbeing Toolkit, within the context of the skills building workshop, has been assessed extremely positively and considered a valuable and welcome resource by nurses, doctors and allied health clinicians alike from all around Australia. Workshops have thus far been offered to the attendees of the ‘Spinal Cord Injury Core Course’ training (RNSH, Sydney 2014-2019); icare Life Time Care and Support (the NSW Government compensation support for victims of catastrophic motor vehicle injury); non-government spinal cord injury peak bodies - Spinal Cord Injuries Australia and Paraquad Australia; in-service for new graduate nursing programs in both RNSH and POW hospitals and in-service training to Occupational Therapy and Social Work Departments.
*The Emotional Wellbeing Toolkit is an evidence-based resource containing validated and standardised tools. The Toolkit was developed for all staff to improve understanding of the importance of Person-Centered and Trauma Informed Care within the Spinal Cord Injury acute, rehabilitation and community integration settings, and screen for suspected psychological difficulties, recognising the critical role they play in assisting patients in crises and with long-term adjustment.
Middleton J, Craig A. Psychological issues associated with spinal cord injury and its management (Chapter 1). In A Craig and Y Tran (Eds.). Psychological dynamics associated with spinal cord injury rehabilitation: New directions and best evidence. New York: Nova Science Publishers Inc., 2008 (ISBN: 978-1-60456-996-4). p. 3-53.
Craig A, Tran Y, Middleton J. Theory of adjustment following severe neurological injury: evidence supporting the Spinal Cord Injury Adjustment Model. (Chapter 3). In Andres Costa and Eugenio Villalba (Eds.) Horizons in Neuroscience Research Volume 29. New York: Nova Science Publishers. Copyright 2017 Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York. ISBN: 978-1-53610-816-3. ISSN: 2159-113X. p. 117-139.
Spinal Cord injury is a complex condition from a medical, physical and psychological perspective. The NSW State Spinal Cord Injury Service (SSCIS) in Australia established a Psychosocial Strategy following Professor Paul Kennedy’s visit to Australia in 2006 to advocate for the importance of psychosocial issues for those adjusting to and living with a spinal cord injury. Professor Kennedy defined the importance of psychosocial interventions for those adjusting to, and living with, a spinal cord injury (SCI). Most notably, he suggested that appropriate, confident and consistent psychosocial care was ‘everyone’s business’, not only the domain of psychology, social work or psychiatry.
Incorporating the Model of Adjustment (Middleton & Craig, 2008; Craig, Tran & Middleton, 2017), and with the use of a case presentation, participants in small groups will be asked to identify psychosocial issues, answer questions and formulate an intervention plan using the Emotional Wellbeing Toolkit*. Participants are then be asked to identify their use of Brief Clinical Tools, embedded in the Toolkit, that would be used when engaging with this patient, supporting consistent practice across all sectors. In addition, helpful and un-help ways of engaging around challenging behaviours will be demonstrated using ‘role plays’ and then practiced in small groups.
The clinical utility of The Emotional Wellbeing Toolkit, within the context of the skills building workshop, has been assessed extremely positively and considered a valuable and welcome resource by nurses, doctors and allied health clinicians alike from all around Australia. Workshops have thus far been offered to the attendees of the ‘Spinal Cord Injury Core Course’ training (RNSH, Sydney 2014-2019); icare Life Time Care and Support (the NSW Government compensation support for victims of catastrophic motor vehicle injury); non-government spinal cord injury peak bodies - Spinal Cord Injuries Australia and Paraquad Australia; in-service for new graduate nursing programs in both RNSH and POW hospitals and in-service training to Occupational Therapy and Social Work Departments.
*The Emotional Wellbeing Toolkit is an evidence-based resource containing validated and standardised tools. The Toolkit was developed for all staff to improve understanding of the importance of Person-Centered and Trauma Informed Care within the Spinal Cord Injury acute, rehabilitation and community integration settings, and screen for suspected psychological difficulties, recognising the critical role they play in assisting patients in crises and with long-term adjustment.
Middleton J, Craig A. Psychological issues associated with spinal cord injury and its management (Chapter 1). In A Craig and Y Tran (Eds.). Psychological dynamics associated with spinal cord injury rehabilitation: New directions and best evidence. New York: Nova Science Publishers Inc., 2008 (ISBN: 978-1-60456-996-4). p. 3-53.
Craig A, Tran Y, Middleton J. Theory of adjustment following severe neurological injury: evidence supporting the Spinal Cord Injury Adjustment Model. (Chapter 3). In Andres Costa and Eugenio Villalba (Eds.) Horizons in Neuroscience Research Volume 29. New York: Nova Science Publishers. Copyright 2017 Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York. ISBN: 978-1-53610-816-3. ISSN: 2159-113X. p. 117-139.
Biography
Annalisa Dezarnaulds is a Clinical Psychologist with 18 years experience working with SCI both in and outpatients both at Prince of Wales Hospital and The Royal Rehabilitation Centre, Sydney. She is the Strategy Coordinator of the NSW State Spinal Cord Injury Service (SSCIS) Psychosocial Strategy and a member of the NSW SSCIS Clinical Development Committee. She has written and co- authored a number of publications about spinal cord injury adjustment and, group psychological therapies and more recently co-authored the Emotional Well Being Toolkit - A Clinicians Guide to Working with Spinal Cord Injury.
