This course is designed for Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Psychologists, Psychotherapists as well as other rehabilitation and mental health providers looking to gain evidence and skills for applying psychotherapeutic skill (CBT and ACT informed approaches) to supporting individuals struggling with pain and other distressing physical symptoms.
No expertise or previous learning in the content area is required.
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The goal of this course is for you to successfully learn and transfer evidence into your clinical practice. This sounds easy, but it takes intention and strategy to do it successfully. Most weekend courses do not achieve a material change in practice. The short time frame and the lack of opportunity to practice new skills and knowledge in a clinical setting do not facilitate consolidation. That’s why we’ve revisioned a weekend course to take place over the course of one month or a few with structured reflection, regular prompting, high frequency touch points, and a chance to, again and again, engage with the material and transfer it to your clinical practice while being supported by course facilitators.
We guarantee that this course will enhance your practice.
This 3 month virtual learning experience will focus on improving your ability to identify & work with pain related beliefs and distress in your rehabilitation or psychotherapy practice. An individual’s beliefs, thoughts, and emotions will influence their physiology, their experience of their symptoms and how they engage in their unique recovery. Your effectiveness as a practitioner is determined largely by your capacity to intentionally identify and address these factors.
However, these are skills that are not taught in most traditional physical rehabilitation programs. Additionally, mental health professionals aren’t always taught how to support their clients with navigating beliefs and behaviours related to physical sensations like pain. Throughout this course you will have the opportunity to learn and practice techniques from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy that will improve your therapeutic relationship with your clients, improve your capacity to help them navigate the distress related to their symptoms, and enhance your impact.
This course is open to all healthcare and wellness professionals interested in enhancing their psychologically-informed practice.
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~15 hours of Self Paced Content to introduce you to theory, key concepts and skills rooted in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
4 X 2.5 hour Integration Workshops focused on Clarifying/Refining Learning, Application, Practice, and Clinical Reasoning. Students are encouraged to bring questions and case studies to the Integration Workshops in order to unpack obstacles and gain clarity.
Morning coffee emails with prompts to explore, reflect, and focus on the strategies introduced.
Discussion boards to consolidate new ideas, explore nuance and application, and learn from peers and facilitators.
A wealth of reference materials to dive into and explore during and after the course.
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After completing this course, participants will be able to:
Appreciate the psychological processes influencing recovery in physical rehabilitation settings.
Help patients to identify the various components of their experience with distressing symptoms (physical sensations, emotions, thoughts, and behaviours).
Use motivational interviewing techniques to engage clients in pain self-management strategies
Integrate CBT skills into clinical practice in order to:
Help clients build skills to calm their bodies & nervous systems.
Identify unhelpful thinking patterns.
Introduce countering strategies to evaluate and shift distressing thoughts.
Develop behavioural experiments & exposure hierarchies to challenge avoidant behaviours rooted in anxiety and interfering with recovery
Obtain a foundational understanding of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy principles & integrate skills to support psychological flexibility into clinical practice.
Obtain a framework for conceptualizing the private experiences (thoughts, emotions, physical sensations) and behaviours of patients in order to help guide the selection of CBT/ACT strategies
Pivot & partner with clients when things don’t go to plan!
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3 month immersive learning experience From September 23rd to December 20th, 2024.
Monday, September 23rd - Release of Self-Paced Content Part 1 & Discussion Board Opens
Saturday, September 28th - Kick Off Call 8AM - 9:00 AM PST (Welcome & Orientation)
Saturday, October 19th - 1st Integration Workshop (8 AM - 10:30 AM PST), Release of Self-Paced Content Part 2
Saturday, November 2nd - 2nd Integration Workshop (8AM - 10:30 AM PST), Release of Self-Paced Content Part 3
Saturday, November 16th - 3rd Integration Workshop (8 AM - 10:30 AM PST), Release of Self-Paced Content Part 4
Saturday, November 30th - 4th & Final Integration Workshop
Access to course & discussion board closes December 20th.
Click here for the course calendar.
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Meet Lara Desrosiers BSc. Kin, MSc. OT Reg. (Ont)
This Knowledge Project will be Facilitated by AMP’s Director, Lara Desrosiers. Lara is an Occupational Therapist who has worked in community mental health settings since graduating from McMaster University in 2009. She has a passion for mental health and several years of experience addressing mental illness, trauma, and addiction using occupational therapy frameworks & psychotherapeutic technique.
Lara now operates a private practice, Pelvic Resilience in Ontario where she supports individuals struggling with persistent pain and pelvic health challenges to get back to living life. Lara enjoys supporting multidisciplinary audiences with building impactful psychologically-informed and trauma-informed practices.
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Participant learning will be assessed via interaction with the instructor and other course participants using the Discussion Board, responses to reflection prompts within Learn Worlds and discussion during our live integration workshops which will focus on practicing skills, question & answers and application to case studies.
At the conclusion of this event, AMP Healthcare Education will collect participant evaluations of the overall learning experience.
Participants will receive a course certificate upon competition.
AMP Healthcare Education is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. AMP Healthcare Education maintains responsibility for the program. This course is approved for 25 CE credits for psychologists. Obtaining the full amount of CEs will require that participants attend all live components of this course and complete any self-paced learning included with the course. Attendance will be taken at each live session & if there is self-paced learning connected with this course, completion will be monitored using the Learn Worlds platform's participant progress tracking feature.
Looking for funding? Click below to learn more about your funding options in BC or Ontario:
A 10% cancellation fee will be applied to all refunds prior to 2 weeks before the beginning of the course. We cannot issue refunds within 2 weeks of the start date of the course.
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