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We proudly offer an extensive list of professional resources to enhance your psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery competencies.

These resources include webinar recordings, articles, ebooks, interactive lessons, and other websites. Access to these resources is included in your PSR Canada membership.

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Resources

Webinars

The following webinars are two examples of the informative and insightful webinars that PSR Canada members can access as a benefit of their membership.

Other webinars available in PSR Canada’s extensive Resource library include:

  • PSR Values & Indigenous Pedagogies – Walking Together – James Price
  • Supporting IPV/DV Survivors with Brain Injuries – Christina Hennelly, MSW, RSW; Vicky Heuhn, and Susan Boyce
  • Person-Centred Care in the OCD Centre – Spenser Martin
  • Re-evaluating Practices that Promote Recovery in Acute Care Settings – Andrea Thomson, Sharran Mullins – Brandon University
  • Implementing Practice Standards for Recovery Practitioners (2021) – Vicky Heuhn, Dr. Regina Casey, Natalie Rich
  • Promoting recovery-oriented practice in the inpatient context – Dr. Shu-Ping Chen
  • Caring for our Carers – Heather McDonald
  • Not the new normal… but a chance to change our response to mental illness – Dr. Rachel Herron, Candice Waddell, and Richard Whitfield
  • Do-Live-Well: Pandemic-inspired lessons on Social Participation & Mental Health – Sandra Moll, Lisa Iannuzziello, Laura Gough
  • Peer Support: Clarity and Commonalities – Debbie Sesula, MA, RTC, CPS, CPSM
  • Supporting Colleagues and Staff Members During a Time of Emergency – Vicky Huehn
  • Recovery-oriented Practice in Acute Patient Care – Debbie Watterworth, BA, MRSc, CPRRP, Mental Health Rehab Specialist, Inpatient Psychiatry

Articles

Domain A: Diversity & Inclusion

  • Applying a Mental Health Recovery Approach for People from Diverse Backgrounds: The Case of Collectivism and Individualism Paradigms
  • The Provider Perspective on Behavioural Health Care for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Individuals in the Central Great Plains: A Qualitative Study of Approaches and Needs
  • Building globally relevant occupational therapy from the strength of our diversity
  • The cultural erosion of Indigenous people in health care
  • Some Reflections on the Cultural Bias of USPRA’s Principles and Values
  • A Critical Reflection on the Concept of Cultural Safety

Domain B: Professional Skills

  • Helping Not Stigmatizing: A Primer on the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Process

Domain C: Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Supporting Practices and Recovery Oriented Services

  • Evidence-based practices for services to families of people to participate fully in life
  • The Recovery Movement: Implications For Mental Health Care And Enabling People To Participate Fully In Life
  • The 2009 Schizophrenia PORT Psychosocial Treatment Recommendations and Summary Statements
  • Empirical evidence about recovery and mental health
  • Trauma-informed mental healthcare in the UK: What is it and how can we further its development?
  • Transforming Assertive Community Treatment Into an Integrated Care System: The Role of Nursing and Primary Care Partnerships
  • A paradigm shift: Relationships in trauma-informed mental health services
  • The British Columbia Assertive Community Treatment Fidelity Review Scale: A modification of the Dartmouth Assertive Community Treatment (DACT) scale and Tool for Measuring fidelity to Assertive Community Treatment (TMACT)
  • Skill Building: Assessing the Evidence
  • One Size Doesn’t Fit All: A Trial of Individually Tailored Skills Training
  • Life skills programmes for chronic mental illnesses (Review)
  • Illness management and recovery in community practice
  • Implementing the Illness Management and Recovery Program in Community Mental Health Settings: Facilitators and Barriers
  • Vocational rehabilitation for people with severe mental illness (Review)
  • Generalizability of the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model of supported employment outside the US
  • A Social Justice Framework to Guide the Practice of Occupational Therapists
  • A home but how to connect with others? A qualitative meta‐synthesis of experiences of people with mental illness living in supported housing
  • From Residential Care to Supportive Housing for People With Psychiatric Disabilities: Past, Present, and Future
  • A systematic review of infuences on implementation of peer support work for adults with mental health problems
  • Consumer-providers of care for adult clients of statutory mental health services (Review)
  • A Systematic Review of Evidence for the Clubhouse Model of Psychosocial Rehabilitation
  • Cognitive remediation for severe mental illness: State of the field and future directions
  • Current Status of Cognitive Remediation for Psychiatric Disorders: A Review
  • Compensatory Interventions for Cognitive Impairments in Psychosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  • The impact of Recovery Colleges on mental health staff, services and society
  • Recovery colleges as a mental health innovation
  • Motivational interviewing techniques: Facilitating behaviour change in the general practice setting
  • Implementing shared decision making in routine mental health care
  • Strength-based approach in dealing with severe mental illness
  • Strengths-Based Approach for Mental Health Recovery
  • Confronting a Neglected Epidemic: Tobacco Cessation for Persons with Mental Illnesses and Substance Abuse Problems
  • How Social Relationships Influence Substance Use Disorder Recovery: A Collaborative Narrative Study
  • Partnering with persons in long-term recovery from substance use disorder: Experiences from a collaborative research project
  • Uses and abuses of recovery: Implementing recovery-oriented practices in mental health systems
  • Characteristics of mental health recovery narratives: Systematic review and narrative synthesis
    100 Ways to Support Recovery: A guide for mental health professionals [Rethink recovery series: Volume 1]
  • Everyday Solutions for Everyday Problems: How Mental Health Systems Can Support Recovery
  • ‘Recovery’ in the Real World: Service User Experiences of Mental Health Service Use and
  • Recommendations for Change 20 Years on from a First Episode Psychosis
  • WHO Quality Rights: Transforming services, promoting rights
  • Recovery as a journey of the heart
  • Recovery-Oriented Mental Health and Addiction Care in the Patient’s Medical Home
  • Conceptual framework for personal recovery in mental health: Systematic review and narrative synthesis
  • Can We Measure Recovery? A Compendium of Recovery and Recovery-Related Instruments
  • Psychometric evaluation of the Questionnaire about the Process of Recovery (QPR)
  • Measures of Personal Recovery: A Systematic ReviewThe Implementation of Evidence-Based
  • Psychiatric Rehabilitation: Challenges and Opportunities for Mental Health Services
  • FiRe: Evaluation of a fidelity measure to promote implementation of evidence-based rehabilitation
  • Trauma-Informed Care and Practice: Practice Improvement Strategies in an Inpatient Mental Health Ward
  • The TMACT: A new tool for measuring fidelity to assertive community treatment
  • ACT and Recovery: What We Know About Their Compatibility
  • Working with Families Affected by Mental Distress: Stakeholders’ Perceptions of Mental Health Nurses Educational Needs
  • Informal mental health interventions for people with severe mental illness in low and lower middle-income countries: A systematic review of effectiveness
  • Recovery From Schizophrenia in Community-Based Psychosocial Rehabilitation Settings: Rates and Predictors
  • Helping Not Stigmatizing: A Primer on the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Process

Domain D: Equity and Social Participation

  • Community Participation Factors and Poor Neurocognitive Functioning among Persons with Schizophrenia
  • Effect of Contact-Based Interventions on Stigma and Discrimination: A Critical Examination of the Evidence

Domain E: Facilitating Change and Providing Leadership

  • ‘‘They are Us—We are Them’’: Transformative learning through nursing education leadership
  • Critical Issues in Leadership Development for Peer Support Specialists
  • The Global Need for Lived Experience Leadership

…And more!

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