I've seen some services now (like some CAMHS) offering just a single session of therapy, usually 60-90 minutes in a session I think. I wanted to ask if anyone has had this (intentionally, not like when they drop you after one session for being too complex), and if you found it useful?
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I'm a mental health nurse irl and so am trained with IM and subcut injections, including proper techniques, adapting for people who have difficulty with the normal techniques, safety, related healthcare things.
Just wanted to offer, if anyone has questions about injection technique, how to adapt things, using the right equipment, disposing of sharps safely, etc, I may be able to answer! This is ongoing, even if this post gets old, and you can message me instead of commenting if you're more comfortable with that.
I trained and am practicing in ~~TERF island~~ the UK so if it's about what resources are available, I can help more if you're UK based, but things like injection and safe disposal are the same most places.
Hi! I'm a newly qualified mental health nurse working in community CAMHS. In the Trust where I trained, every type of community mental health team I did placement in had at least a quarter to a third OTs in Care Coordinator roles (CAMHS, CMHT, Early Intervention in Psychosis, Older Adult, etc), but in this trust it seems much rarer - there are no OTs in my team at all, and I don't believe there are any in the team we work with, either.
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Since a lot of the issues that the young people coming to our team are dealing with tend to be things like struggling to attend / engage with school, struggling to make or keep friends or social connections, etc, I feel weird not having OT input in the team!
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I was wondering if anyone knows of any short courses, or particular models or frameworks I could try to get training in, which would help with incorporating more of an OT approach in my role?
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I've done a lot of work around disability (mainly supporting students) and am quite familiar with working with people to identify reasonable adjustments that might work for them, and an OT I used to work with taught me about the PEO model which has been very helpful for reasonable adjustments / universal design, but for a lot of the young people I work with now, their difficulties often wouldn't meet the criteria for disability so I don't want to apply the same approach when it might not be what they need.
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Any sort of advice or information would be much appreciated!