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Last call for the Practical ACT for OTs course! Add to your psychosocial tool box and get clients unstuck in any setting. ACT or Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is all about helping clients move toward doing more of what matters, even when difficult thoughts, emotions, and sensations come up and make it difficult. The thing I like best about it is that the goal isn't to change the thought, emotion or sensation, it's about changing how we relate to it and choosing the valued action (aka meaningful occupation) anyway, even in just a small way. I'm excited to be offering this unique learning opportunity specifically designed to help OTs use ACT in a practical and OT-aligned way, in ANY SETTING. Whether you have no ACT training or some ACT training but haven't felt solid using it, this course is for you. I also did extensive research on what OTs want out of this course ahead of time and learned that they want flexibility so I created 3 different learning pathways to meet your preferred depth of learning and your budget. (The Basic Learning Pathway is about $58 usd.) https://lnkd.in/gUcwaAcY

In Episode 1 of Upstream Rehabilitation Mentorship Minute, listen in as Poonam and Christina chat about how we support our clinicians in their first year with us! ⌚ Our mentorship program is intentionally designed to improve your approach to patient diagnosis and treatment to make better use of the various skills developed through study and clinical practice. 🧐 #urptfamily #lifeatupstream #mentorshipmatters #dpt #newgrad #physicaltherapist #hiring

I trained in Orton Gillingham through two credentialing organizations. Both told me the same thing… …that I should make my lesson plans myself. That following a program is a cop-out. 🥺 …years later, after thousands of hours of lesson planning, I started to look around me and understand how high the burn-out is among OG Practitioners. That needs to change. 👇 ♥️ OG Practitioners are incredible people who work hard to stay current with evidence-based intervention practices and individualize each session they teach to the specific combination of needs of the children they serve. OG Practitioners are professionals. They are far more than tutors. 🦾 Here’s the thing. Professionals use programs. Drs. don’t make up treatment routines or guess at medication dosage. ☸️ We don’t need to recreate the wheel, especially with phonics. There is an abundance of programs that have demonstrated efficacy. Why start with something you ‘think’ will work when you can pick up a program that does work. Using a program reduces lesson planning time dramatically. Spend your time, individualizing the program to the specific needs of the child in front of you. (No, that doesn’t break fidelity.) 🛌😥Let’s break the cycle of burn-out amongst OG Practitioners. What other supports do you think OGs need? #StructuredLiteracy #OrtonGillingham #SoR

Today is World Down’s Syndrome Day. I celebrate this day thinking about my older sister and the joy (and sometimes tears) she has brought to me and my family. My sister is also profoundly deaf and has other learning difficulties, which means that it is difficult for people, including healthcare professionals, to communicate with her effectively. She always needs an advocate to speak with and sometimes for her as she struggles to understand. Have you ever thought about how you communicate with people who may have learning needs? How do you make sure that their ideas, concerns and expectations are listened to and understood? Take a look at CPPE’s consultation skills learning gateway for a range of learning resources on how you can develop and improve your consultation skills when consulting with people who may need more support to have their voice heard. https://lnkd.in/e9jcizhm

I trained in Orton Gillingham through two credentialing organizations. Both told me the same thing… …that I should make my lesson plans myself. That following a program is a cop-out. 🥺 …years later, after thousands of hours of lesson planning, I started to look around me and understand how high the burn-out is among OG Practitioners. That needs to change. 👇 ♥️ OG Practitioners are incredible people who work hard to stay current with evidence-based intervention practices and individualize each session they teach to the specific combination of needs of the children they serve. OG Practitioners are professionals. They are far more than tutors. 🦾 Here’s the thing. Professionals use programs. Drs. don’t make up treatment routines or guess at medication dosage. ☸️ We don’t need to recreate the wheel, especially with phonics. There is an abundance of programs that have demonstrated efficacy. Why start with something you ‘think’ will work when you can pick up a program that does work. Using a program reduces lesson planning time dramatically. Spend your time, individualizing the program to the specific needs of the child in front of you. (No, that doesn’t break fidelity.) 🛌😥Let’s break the cycle of burn-out amongst OG Practitioners. What other supports do you think OGs need? #StructuredLiteracy #OrtonGillingham #SoR

Owning a personal training studio prior to becoming a physical therapist was pivotal to my career. It allowed me to learn how to COACH and not just PRESCRIBE. In my opinion, prescribing exercise (what is taught in school) is the bare minimum. It's learning a handful of exercises for a diagnosis and using it with everyone. In comparison, coaching exercise (the missing component in PT) intentionally chooses exercises based on the individual's structures, goals, and needs. It's treating the patient, not the condition. If you're a PT or a PT student looking to build your clinical coaching skills, I invite you to become a Clinical Coaching Specialist (CCS). You'll learn a foundational system to apply in the clinic to improve your confidence and patient's outcomes. Learn more through the link in the below! https://lnkd.in/g7ydhwvC

Please note that the early bird deadline for this training is 31st July 2024! If you have already trained with CSC, please pay your deposit to secure your place. If you have not trained with us before, please download an application form and submit it by 31st July to secure the early bird price. The purpose of this training is to give participants the opportunity to extend their therapeutic or coaching practice to include working with couples or other two-person systems. Participants will already have basic skills in working with individuals, and therefore the course focus is on the shifts and additional skills needed to be of help when working with couples. The teaching is intended to help therapists and coaches ‘see’ and work with systems, including the three interacting systems that are alive in the room when working with couples or two-person systems, and the wider and deeper family systems that surround the couple and often emerge and influence in hidden ways. Drawing on both Gestalt theory as a basic orientation, and the systemic constellation philosophy that originates in the wisdom of traditional communities from around the world, we will also focus on presence, and an understanding of the many common contexts that bring couples into therapy or the issues that arise in two person systems in organisation. https://lnkd.in/gvEMnPM5

At uni we learn about the importance of client-centred practice, and the value that comes from facilitating our clients’ participation in meaningful occupations. But then we start working in broken or restricted systems and think “how can we actually do this in practice!?” Well, I’m super excited about the next Your OT Tutor Alliance workshop because we’re going to show you that being a strengths-based, occupation-focused, inclusive OT is 100% possible. I’ve called in an expert – Dr Robert Pereira – who has been doing fantastic work on the CORE approach, which provides a mechanism for OTs to reflect on their practice to ensure they are practicing in an inclusive, occupation-centred way. In this engaging and practical workshop, we’ll give you case study examples across a range of clinical settings (yes – even private practice like the NDIS!) to help you do what you became an OT for in the first place – facilitating our clients’ participation in meaningful occupations - even when you don’t think the system will let you. Find out more via the event link in the comments! P.S. This is an exclusive workshop for YOTT Alliance members, but luckily it is super easy (and super affordable) to sign-up, with no obligation to stay long term. More info in the comments or feel free to send me a DM. #OccupationalTherapy #YourOTTutor #YOTTAlliance #Occupation

Today's newsletter is a reflection in my therapy journey, and giving myself a lil pep talk before I start my training up again in a couple of weeks "The therapy process is also really ambiguous, especially the therapy I’m training in. There’s no goal or path, it’s a process that can go anywhere. There’s also no ‘this session worked’ marker. You might have a good, productive session. You might have a good, not productive session, and you might not have a good session at all (for whatever ‘good’ means). It’s in the hands of the client, and my job is to be there with them." Free to read: https://buff.ly/3ThZO0D

I get this question often when talking with #DPT #students...what does mentorship look like at Upstream Rehabilitation and how are you going to support my classroom to clinic transition? Here's the answer to that question from two of our very own who have been through our mentorship program and what it meant to them as new grads. #lifeatupstream #spt #wearehiring #firstcareer