job interview Flashcards
Four pillars of DEWY:
mindfulness practice,
relapse management,
values-based living,
enhancing motivation towards recovery
Recreation activties/counselling
mindfulness meditation, yoga, nature walks, gratitude journals
Art therapy, vision boards, drawing, painting, journalling
Group building: sports, team building, role play
Skill development/motivation: cooking, music and dance, outdoor
Relapse prevention: anger management games, group sharing, guided nature experiences
Community engagement: volunteer opportunities for their likes, peer support
Motivational interviewing: goal setting, positive affirmations, celebration of success
Motivational interviewing
A therapeutic style intended to help clinicians work with patients to address the patient’s fluctuation between opposing behaviours and thoughts.
- directive, client centred counseling style that enhances motivation for change by helping the person youre working with clarify and resolve ambivalence
- goal setting
Early strategies – 4 core skills of MI
- Open questions
- Affirmations
- Reflective statements (simple – repetition and rephrase, complex)
- summarize
Vision, mission, values
- Everyone thriving in strong, healthy communities!
- To inspire healthy and inclusive communities through leadership and collaboration.
- Advocacy, Diversity and Inclusion, Empowerment, well-being
Can you describe your experience with the intake and referral process?
- Group respite caregiver and BI, involved with the intake process. initial intake and referral processes for clients. I made sure to gather necessary background information, assess their needs, and ensure that all paperwork was completed properly. I then worked with the team to discuss each referral’s appropriateness and to develop a tailored plan for them. I understand the importance of making clients feel comfortable during the intake process and ensuring they understand the support options available to them.”
What experience do you have working with youth who are dealing with substance use?”
- My psychology bachelors: dsm criteria (overusage, unable to control, withdrawal, cravings, etc)
- Media usage (avoiding this)
worked with youth and children facing emotional, social and behavioural challenges. During my counselling practicum, worked alongside youth facing substance use and counselors’ hands on. .
I understand protective factors: optimism, mindfulness and religious beliefs (drawing on the spiritual aspect)
- Risk factors: impulsive, problems with emotional regulation, substance usage in family, conduct problems, lack of supervision
How would you provide recovery-oriented counselling support for youth in the DEWY program
- Person centred approach – ensuring clients’ needs and preferences
- Youth feel empowered to make their own decisions
- Strengths-based approaches – exploring goals and challenges while boosting self-efficacy
- Goal focused (motivational interviewing)
- Mindfulness – it’s a protective factor
Motivational interviewing (MI
is a counseling style that helps people change their behaviors by increasing their motivation. It’s a collaborative, goal-oriented process that’s based on respect for the client’s autonomy.
How do you ensure your approach to counselling is culturally sensitive, particularly with Indigenous youth?
In my bachelors degree in psychology and during my work experiences I understood the importance of understanding different cultures.
- Indigenous values, traditions and community structures when working with youth
- Understand how colonialism, intergenerational trauma, and substance usage can affect indigenous communities differently.
- Adaptability to diverse cultures
- Incorporating elders and families when needed
- Open to continued learning, and addressing unique needs
- I understand children of parents who faced cultural setbacks (residential schools) can have just the same amount of impact
Trauma knowledge
I understand Adverse childhood experiences (trauma occur during childhood)
- Child maltreatment is most common
- Avoiding adult victimization
- PTSD, reactive attachment disorder, disinhibited social engagement disorder
What experience do you have facilitating group activities for youth, particularly related to recovery?
I would focus on “fun” and recovery. Designing activities that promote emotional growth but also provide entertainment with healthy coping strategies
- In my roles: I was responsible for developing and creating recreational activities for youth to promote emotional regulation.
- Coping skills for troubled youth
- I led art therapy sessions, exercise therapy (sports), and mindfulness exercises, games, teambuilding
- Incorporating and encouraged story telling and role play
- collaborating with local youth clubs, sports leagues, cultural or recreational facilities, or even recovery-focused community groups
How do you approach maintaining case notes and documentation in your work
- I am very organized
- Protection of privacy
- Document clients, track progress, nd ensure follow up actions are clear
- Did this as a BI, Group respite caregiver and in before and after school care
- Detailed, organized, confidentiality, and compliance.
How do you apply theories like motivational interviewing or the biopsychosocial framework in your work
- MI and how it reflects behaviours and reasoning’s behind substance use
- Makes youth feel empowered towards goal setting and change
- Biopsychosocial, recognizing substance use cant be separated from environment, biological, spiritual, etc.
- Viewed as a whole so. Interventions are holistic and effective
Building rapport
patient, non-judgmental, and consistent. With resistant youth, it’s important to meet them where they are and build trust over time. I use active listening, empathy, and validation to show them that I understand their struggles.
