Coping Strategies to Promote Mental Health
Training Modules for Occupational Therapists and Other Care Providers
Theresa Straathof
- 168 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Coping Strategies to Promote Mental Health
Training Modules for Occupational Therapists and Other Care Providers
Theresa Straathof
About This Book
This manual offers care providers a unique combination of evidence-based methods for adult learning and coping strategy development when training clients individually or in groups.
Coping strategies help clients to engage and thrive in meaningful self-care, as well asproductive and leisure occupations. The coping strategies are divided into four categories: health and wellness routines, changing the body's response to stress, changing the situation, and changing attitudes. Each category contains four modules with client handouts for coping strategy training, including sleep hygiene, suicide safety planning, setting healthy boundaries, and cultivating gratitude. Every module contains a facilitator lesson plan, specific learning outcomes, and examples of expected client responses to ensure the learning is taking place.
Occupational therapists and other care providers, both novice and experienced, will find this manual useful to improve efficiencies in practice and provision of meaningful teachings.
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1Modules
Health and Wellness Routines
1.1 Sleep Hygiene to Improve Daily Occupations
LEARNING POINT
LEARNING OBJECTIVE
- Given checklist, sleep hygiene game, lecture, discussion, practice and feedback;
- The learner will value sleep hygiene;
- To the extent that at least four behaviours to promote healthy sleep are chosen from guidelines, and then are written in a schedule on provided template, and a verbal commitment is made to follow one named behaviour for two days;
- As evaluated by self, peers and therapist/facilitator.
MATERIALS
HANDOUTS
- Sleep hygiene checklist
- Sleep facts
- Card game: Answer sheet
- My four chosen behaviours to improve sleep quality
- One-day schedule
Time frame | Learning stage | Facilitator | Expected learner response |
2 minutes | Orientation | [Say] Welcome, etc. [Say] Quality of sleep can be determined by how one prepares for sleep. Factors related to sleep hygiene, environment, relaxation and managing thoughts might improve deep, restful sleep and wellness (Mass & Robbins, 2012). | |
3 minutes | Clarification | [Say] The objective is: To schedule behaviours for improving sleep. [Say] Today we will: • Complete a self-assessment of factors to improve sleep • Review sleep facts • Carry out a quiz on healthy and unhealthy sleep habits | |
• Map four behaviours in our daily routine to improve sleep • Make a commitment to participate in these routines [Ask] Are we good to go? | Yes. | ||
5 minutes | Warm-up | [Say] Let’s consider things that might improve sleep quality. The first person will say their name, followed by … “I went to the store to buy …,” then list something that might improve sleep. The next person will start with the same sentence and include what the first person said plus one new item. For example, I went to the store to buy a relaxation tape. We will continue until everyone has one or two turns. | Examples could include: Decaf coffee, herbal tea, eye mask, affirmation booklet, alarm clock, walking shoes, dark curtains, etc. |
7 minutes | Experience | [Do] Provide handout: Sleep hygiene checklist. [Say] This checklist includes tips that can improve quality of sleep. For each tip, rate if you do this rarely, sometimes or regularly. | Each member completes the checklist individually. |
8 minutes | Reflection | [Ask] Did any tips that were suggested surprise you? What was a personal area of strength? What may need improvement? How do you feel when you see the number of tips you already use? | Yes – likely Personal responses. Perhaps surprised, encouraged. |
12 minutes | Generalization | [Ask] What keeps us from using good sleep practices for quality rest? [Do] Provide handout: Sleep facts. [Say] Here are some sleep facts based on research literature and specialists on sleep quality. I will read them out loud. [Ask] Which one fact may be impacting your quality of sleep lately? | Lack of knowledge of strategies or false beliefs of things to improve sleep such as alcohol use. Lack of skills (e.g. reframing worry thoughts, relaxation techniques). Decreased value placed ... |