In order to provide the best care for Individuals receiving\nCARE supports, we do all we can to better understand what Individuals are going\nthrough and experiencing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some Individuals receiving CARE supports live with schizophrenia\ndescribed as \u201ca long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in\nthe relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty\nperception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and\npersonal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental\nfragmentation\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To help understand what that means, CARE team members take the Hearing Voices That Are Distressing Workshop \u2013 a simulated training experience as presented by Alberta Health Services\u2019 CONNECT Community Support Team<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Workshop is described as a \u201cgroundbreaking\nempathy-building exercise which helps students, mental health professionals and\nfirst responders understand the challenges and strengths of people who\nexperience psychosis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was developed by Patricia Deegan who was diagnosed with schizophrenia when she was a teenager. She went on to get her B.S. and Ph.D. and is the creator of the CommonGround Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, what is it?<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Participants are given a set of headphones to wear and what\nthey hear are \u2018distressing voices\u2019. While having the voices play in their ears,\nthey are asked to complete simple tasks such as reading and comprehension or\nputting together puzzles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is substantially harder for participants to concentrate\non the task at hand and can lead to feelings of frustration, distress, fear or\nanger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What is learned?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Participants leave with a better understanding of how hearing voices get in the way of day-today life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sometimes the voices relay negative messages and sometimes\nthe voices are sounds like humming or grinding. As explained in the workshop,\nthe voices can come from objects like windows or buildings or body parts. The\nvoices can resemble people the person knows, speak in a clear language or\nmumble and not be understandable. Sometimes the voices whisper and sometimes\nthey yell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some voices engage in conversations while other voices\ninsist the person listen and obey orders given. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The voices can be triggered by anything and be heard\nmultiple times a day or just once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What is also learned is that no two experiences are the\nsame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To see and hear for yourself, watch this video of CNN\u2019s Anderson Cooper experiencing the simulation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In order to provide the best care for Individuals receiving CARE supports, we do all we can to better understand what Individuals are going through and experiencing. Some Individuals receiving CARE supports live with schizophrenia described as \u201ca long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, … Continue reading Hearing Voices- a simulated training workshop<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-training-supports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carehelps.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carehelps.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carehelps.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carehelps.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carehelps.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carehelps.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carehelps.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carehelps.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carehelps.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carehelps.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}