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    • Occupational therapists only
      • **Rant alert** Don’t call me an OT!
      • A plea for the New Year
      • Clinical reasoning – more than problem solving…
      • Confidence to strut your stuff
      • Occupational therapy theory
      • When the evidence is ignored
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    • Supervision/Mentoring
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      • Biofeedback – or Things that go ‘beep’!
      • Changing the inner critic – positive statements
      • Checking thoughts during activity
      • Hypnosis and imagery in pain management
      • Motivating people to make changes (i)
      • Motivating people to make changes (ii)
      • Motivating people to make changes (iii)
      • Motivating people to make changes (iv)
      • Motivating people to make changes (v)
      • Relaxation training
      • Task Persistence – the least used coping skill
      • The process of change…
      • Pacing – aka working to quota, activity scheduling, chunking, time contingent activity, timetabling
  • Tinkering with Possibility: Lessons from a Morning Mocha

    Tinkering with Possibility: Lessons from a Morning Mocha

    Back pain, Chronic pain, Pain, Pain conditions, Professional topics, Resilience/Health, Science in practice, Therapeutic approaches
  • Psychologically informed –  What does it mean?

    Psychologically informed – What does it mean?

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  • Psychologically informed – Hope & presence

    Psychologically informed – Hope & presence

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    A question about hope was posed recently (thanks, Leah!), and it got me thinking. Hope is one of those words I hear often from both clinicians and people living with pain, yet it can mean very different things depending on who is using it. Hope is thought to support wellbeing through a combination of two…

  • Psychologically informed – Essential competencies

    Psychologically informed – Essential competencies

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  • Moving Beyond Muscles: What Really Makes Exercise Effective?

    Moving Beyond Muscles: What Really Makes Exercise Effective?

    Chronic pain, Clinical reasoning, Coping strategies, Pain conditions, Professional topics, Research, Science in practice
  • Psychosocial factors in pain: Are we just blaming people for their pain?

    Psychosocial factors in pain: Are we just blaming people for their pain?

    Pain, Pain conditions, Professional topics, Research, Science in practice
  • Care with labels: Psychosocial factors aren’t a tick box exercise

    Care with labels: Psychosocial factors aren’t a tick box exercise

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  • When Everything Becomes an Outcome: Untangling the Confusion in Outcome Measurement

    When Everything Becomes an Outcome: Untangling the Confusion in Outcome Measurement

    Assessment, Clinical reasoning, Pain, Professional topics, Science in practice
  • Do you need to be a psychologist to help people living with pain?

    Do you need to be a psychologist to help people living with pain?

    Chronic pain, Occupational therapy, Pain, Physiotherapy, Professional topics, Psychology, Research, Science in practice
  • Listen to the STORY

    Listen to the STORY

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  • Depression’s quiet influence: What if pain rehabilitation means understanding mood too?

    Depression’s quiet influence: What if pain rehabilitation means understanding mood too?

    Assessment, Back pain, Chronic pain, Clinical reasoning, Low back pain, Occupational therapy, Pain, Pain conditions, Physiotherapy, Professional topics, Psychology, Science in practice
  • Seeing the Whole Person: Working With Pain When Anxiety Is in the Mix

    Seeing the Whole Person: Working With Pain When Anxiety Is in the Mix

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  • Person-centred or person-directed – Some thoughts

    Person-centred or person-directed – Some thoughts

    Back pain, Chronic pain, Low back pain, Pain, Pain conditions, Professional topics, Science in practice
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