Group facilitation

I love working in groups! I love the diversity, and the way that learning occurs, and the challenges of energising and focusing groups. For me groupwork is one of the most demanding and yet rewarding aspects of my work.
There are many many sites on the internet that have a range of activities for groups - [...]

Supervision

Supervision has both a good reputation and a not so good - for me it’s been a mixed blessing because I have rarely had effective supervision from an occupational therapist (with the exception of my current occupational therapy supervisor!), and in fact the majority of my clinical supervision has been from psychologists.
I’ve posted much more [...]

Pain management can’t be cloned

I’ve had occasion over the past few weeks to think about service delivery and teamwork and how to provide really good pain management programmes in a group context.
A problem with any interdisciplinary team is that the members of the team may change as staff leave, or are unwell, or even have annual leave(yes! we like [...]

A personal bias

Now some readers have been wondering what my background is…Sometimes I feel like being rather provocative and asking why - while other times, like now, I feel like ‘fessing up.
Here is a clue: in pain management, to me the most important thing is to see people doing things differently.
That’s right, although I’m a strong believer [...]

Chronic Pain’s Favourite Tools

Teamwork and working with thoughts and beliefs.
Some therapists believe cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is ‘only’ for psychologists. Well, I’m not one of them. Frankly, if you are hoping to change ‘what people do’, you are using CBT…whether you’re doing it well or not - that’s another thing! (uhh.. that proviso holds for psychologists [...]