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Assessment Anxiety: Practitioners need to strike a balance between increasing anxiety through thorough exploration of risk, and diffusing anxiety through capturing hope and safety planning.
Key Concept
O Being aware of anxiety in self and others is fundamental to an assessment
o Reflective practice is the key to fostering awareness
o Acceptance provides grounding for actions that support progress to practice
Key Principles
Awareness and Acceptance
Reflection to Guide the Recovery Journey
PROTECT Week Six: Foster Awareness
How to engage in mindful and conscious decisions?
Knowledge:
- What is the AWARE framework?
- What are explicit and implicit drivers of decision making?
- What is reflective practice and how to benefit from it?
- What is cognitive dissonance and how to manage it?
Understanding:
- Why is self awareness important?
- How does anxiety affect me?
- How to make the implicit explicit?
- How does serious untoward events affect my practice?
- How to navigate the rational and the rationalising world?
Skills:
- How to engage in reflective practice and maintain self-awareness?
- How to deal with anxiety in self and others and do right by the person?
- How to weigh up information that has been elicited?
- How to become mindful of agendas that one is picking up?
- How to ensure that inevitable resource based decisions are not cloaked as based on patient needs?
- How to learn from experience but still treat each presentation as new?
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
Nathaniel Branden
| Week 1: Assess Distress |
| Week 2: Build Empathy |
| Week 3: Coproduce Response |
| Week 4: Document Narratives |
| Week 5: Establish Direction |
| Week 6: Foster Awareness |
| Bibliography |
| Course Material |
| AWARE |
| DESPAIR |
| ASPIRE |
| NOTES |
| Country Classification |