Motivational care planning Self management in indigenous mental health

http://web.a.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.navitas.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=d0ae771d-d054-4bbf-97f4-2369d606c362%40sessionmgr4007&vid=1&hid=4209

http://www.racgp.org.au/afp/200812/2008012nagel.pdf

Week 5 - Strategies for Working with People around their Sexuality and Sexual Practices

American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Cultural Formulation Interview, Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed., pp. 752-754). Washington, DC, U.S.A.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4276565/

Week 6 - Aboriginal mental health part 1 - Tiwi Islands

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/aboriginal-mental-health-part-1---tiwi-islands/3326862

http://www.mentalhealthcommission.gov.au/our-reports/our-national-report-cards/2012-report-card/supporting-documents.aspx

https://aboriginal.telethonkids.org.au/our-research/early-environment/developmental-origins-of-child-health/aboriginal-maternal-health-and-child-development/working-together-second-edition

Week 4 - Levels of Therapeutic Presence

Stillness, Insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything. -Jon Kabat-Zinn (1994, p. 54)

Prior to beginning a session with a client, it is vital for the counsellor to become present to their own energy and feelings about the previous session or anything that is happening in their private life. Are there residual elements that may impact the next session? Counsellors may practice a grounding style that works for them. It is an important factor therapeutic practice in clearing space so that the counsellor can be fully present for the next client's energy is an important factor in counselling.

FIVE LEVELS OF DEEPENING INTO PRESENCE IN SESSION
Osterman and Schwartz-Barcott ( 1996)

1. physical presence (light presence)
a. contact with other-light presence (superficial or small talk)
b. settling into the room/chairs
c. awareness of own body (present moment awareness, contact with chair)

2. psychological presence (partial presence)
a. hearing the story, checking in
b. listening, attending, attunement, caring, openness, and interest

3. emotional presence (presence with and for the other)
a. understanding, compassion, acceptance, empathy, unconditional positive regard
b. responding or providing intervention or empathic response in resonance to what the client is sharing

4. transpersonal presence (presence with spirit)
a. body as a vessel
b. contact with deeper conn_ection between therapist and client
c. contact with deeper intuition
d. contact with spirituality (vitality, enhanced sensation, and perception)

5. relational therapeutic presence (all the levels)
a. vacillating (dancing) between what is needed in the moment of deep contact with self, with the client, and with a deeper spirituality and intuition
b. being fully with and for the other yet filled with energy, vitality, and a spiritual transcendence.

Geller, S. M., & Greenberg, L. S. (2012). Levels of therapeutic presence. In Therapeutic presence: A mindful approach to effective therapy (pp. 135-142). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.