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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
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
Reflection to Foster Self Awareness
How to engage in mindful and conscious decisions?
How to make implicit mental shortcuts (gut instinct / common sense) explicit?
Why use AWARE?
# Initiates a journey of self discovery
# Make the implicit explicit
# Blindspot
| 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 |