Boreal Flashcards
What are the names of leaders?
Dr. Joti Samra
Sean Gjos (Joss)
Ron Remick
What are the treatment services offered?
Day treatment: 4 weeks, 25 hours per week of closed group work focusing on CBT, mindfulness, sleep, exercise, nutrition
Intensive outpatient: Evening group work
What are the important evidence-based treatments?
Prolonged Exposure: Invivo and imaginal exposure
CBT, DBT, MBSR
Mindfulness / meditation
What are my questions?
What group treatment approaches are you using for PTSD?
Do you involve families
Does my potential role there include individual counselling, or is it primarily group facilitation?
How big are groups, how are they screened, and are they co-facilitated?
Pay: do you offer benefits, holiday, professional development time to employees
Would depend on the work I was doing. So for the consulting group work I was doing at UBC, I have been payed between $65 and 90 and hour depending on the pay structure they are using. For employment of course the hourly rate would be less, but benefits would be more.
Can you tell me more about opportunities to build part-time practice?
Who are your clients?
Who are your employees?
Room for movement-based mindfulness?
What are some distress tolerance skills?
Radical acceptance
Self-soothing through senses
Distraction: activity of concentration, volunteer, compare to those worse off, competiting emotions, writing, focus on thoughts, writing, etc,
Rubber band on wrist, ice cube in hand, eat a lime
Mamalian dive reflex
What are some emotion regulation skills?
Opposite action
Check the facts - does my reaction match the situation
Pay attention to positive events
What are some mindfulness skills?
Gratitude Body scan Guided meditations Object oriented mediation Eating meditation Moving meditation
Gratitude
Body scan - short version, long version
Progressive muscle relaxation
Meditation - walking, open awareness, visualization, mountain meditation
Diaphramatic breathing
5,4,3,2,1 - 5 things you see, 4 you hear, 3 you smell, 2 you touch, 1 you taste
Raisin exercise
Mindful seeing / nonjudgmental seeing
Mindful listening: 1 stressful thing, 1 looking forward to, thoughts feelings, sensations
Triangle of awareness
Personal boundaries and stress response
Back body meditation
Object oriented meditation
Observe thoughts for 15 minutes - label as thought, i am not my thoughts,
Bell dissipation exercise
Depression: Sorting thoughts, sensations, emotions into mental boxes
Attitudes or intentions: beginners mind, patience, letting go of judgment, compassion, equanimity
Acknowledging cravings like passing thoughts
Wheel of awareness: 5 senses, interoceptive sense, mental activities, interconnectedness
ACT: Cognitive difusion: I am not my thoughts, attachment to thoughts, acceptance, presence, values, actions
What are evidence based treatments for depression, anxiety, PTSD, and substance use?
Depression: Problem solving, social skills and assertiveness, increase pleasant activities, problem/solution focus,
Panic, Phobias, OCD: exposure, applied relaxation, problem solving, cognitive restructuring, meta-cognitive awareness, ACT, mindfulness: present moment focus, values guided behaviour
PTSD: Imaginal exposure: psychoeducation, breathing, relaxation, recounting trauma aloud; invivo exposure; addressing maladaptive thinking patterns; strategies for perspective shift; breathing retraining, muscle relaxation, negative-thought stopping, and restructuring/challenging maladaptive cognitions.
Substance Use: Pros and cons, coping strategies, self-monitoring, motivational interviewing,
What are some important basic skills?
Normalize experience Address shame Build safety Skills training / education Values clarification Motivational interviewing Breathing
What should I emphasize?
Mindfulness approaches Trauma-informed yoga Group experience DBT training Group discussion, social support, helping each other Self-awareness, diad work
