Lecture 1b Flashcards
What is recovery?
- being able to create and live a meaningful and contributing life in a community of choice with or without presence of mental health issues
- Maintaining
What are some characteristics of recovery?
- A unique and personal journey
- A normal human process
- An ongoing experience that is different to a cure
- A journey rarely taken alone
- Nonlinear - frequently interspersed with achievements and setbacks
What is a relapse prevention plan?
- Used to reduce the recurrence of illness and strengthen functional capacity
- Empowers people to take ownership of their care and strive for independence managing their illness
- Adapts and evolves with someone’s experience of illness
What is needed to make a relapse prevention plan?
- Rapport
- Willing participant
- Some insight
- List of common symptoms for the participants diagnosis
Method to create relapse prevention plan
- Develop a list of symptoms as long as you can based on the participants lived experience
- Develop a list of ways to stay well
- Brainstorm a long list of triggers
- Develop an agreed list of strategies for each colour of symptoms
Develop a list of symptoms as long as you can based on the participants lived experience details
- If other stakeholders are included, they can help add to the list from their perspective/memory (can make it more reliable if the patient’s memory and cognition is impacted)
- Order the symptoms in chronology and severity and then colour code them
(What order do symptoms usually appear and how serious are they/how much distress)
Develop a list of ways to stay well details
- Based on what the individual knows helps them feel well
- Includes:
>eating balanced diet
>regular exercise
>spending time with friends
>doing the things they love
>keeping a work/fun/selfcare/slee balance
Brainstorm a long list of triggers details
- When you know your triggers you can avoid them (some)
- Even if you can’t avoid some of the triggers, knowing what they are can help the person take action to ease the effect of them
Draw a relapse prevention plan
My triggers
Things I do to keep well
Early warning signs
Strategies
What is a wellness recovery action plan (WRAP)?
- Peer run program that encourages personal empowerment and focuses on self management, determination and hope
What are the 5 main areas of WRAP?
- Daily maintenance
- Triggers
- Early warning signs (EWS)
- When things are breaking down
- Personal crisis plan
Daily maintenance details
Having an understanding of what wellness looks like for you and what you are like when you are well
- Also the things that you need to do everyday to keep you feeling alright
Triggers details
- External events or circumstances that are risk factors for wellness
- You need to know these factors so that you can develop and action plan to prevent/aid triggers and ease their effects
Early warning signs details
- Develop a list of these so that you can determine when things are starting to go downhill & develop a plan for these
When things are breaking down details
- Acknowledge signs that are telling you when things are getting worse and develop an action plan for these too
- List their supports, self help strategies and numbers to call/how to get help
