Activities to Do with Your Parent Who Has Alzheimer’s Disease.

 

You might be interested in knowing about this new book:

Activities to Do with Your Parent Who Has Alzheimer’s Disease.

It has activities that are designed to help maintain parent’s self-care skills, mobility, and socialization.

It includes over 50 activities, definitions of frequently used medical terms, and room safety suggestions.

The book is written by my friend Judith Levy who is an Occupational Therapist. She has had over 40 years of experience providing services for adults in rehabilitation. She has also been the primary caretaker of her mother who suffered Alzheimer’s Dementia for almost ten years.

Here is the link for the book:

Resources

People who attended the American Therapeutic Recreation Association’s 2014 Mid-Year Conference in Rockville, Maryland received a nice ATRA bag. It included two catalogs for these sites:

Idyll Arbor 2013 Catalog: Books (and more) you can use!

http://www.idyllarbor.com

 

Venture Publishing, Inc.  Books That Matter 2013-2014

https://www.venturepublish.com/

Safety skills - keep children safe from abuse/ harm

Here is a site with books that teach children, teens, and parents about safety skills to keep children safe from abuse.

http://www.kidpower.org/store/safety-comics/

RT Wise Owls -- This is really cool.

This is really cool.
I think RTs should subscribe to the RT Wise Owl site for sure!

A new page has been added to the RT Wise Owls site (www.rtwiseowls.com) that houses evidence-based toolkits. It currently contains 6 toolkits (listed below). If you know of additional toolkits, please let me know.  

1. Geriatric Care Transitions Toolkit
2. Playworks Game Guide Toolkit 
3. Promoting Positive Behavioral Health: A Nonpharmacological Toolkit for Senior Living Communities
4. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Series: Evidence-Based Practices Kits 
5. TATE: Training Assistive Technology in the Environment Toolkit
6. Transition Toolkit for Students with Traumatic Brain Injury

 

We are anticipating the addition of at least a dozen evidence based practice reviews this semester, so please be sure to go to www.rtwiseowls.com and click on “follow blog via email.” You will receive an update whenever anything new is posted to the blog.

 

For those of you that teach, please encourage your students to “follow” the blog. If you are interested in having your student’s work published on the RT Wise Owls site, please contact me for more information.

Emotional Intelligence Activities for Teens

Daniel Goleman is the author of the famous book on Emotional Intelligence (EI).

This is a very important skill to have. Some people argue that having high EI is a better predictor of how successful a person will be in live compared to having a high IQ.

I discovered a really cool e-book online titled, "Emotional Intelligence Activities for Teens."

This e-book has some really useful activities. I have used some of them with pre-teens and teens from the first section on self-regard. Many RTs teach self-awareness/ self-concept/ values clarification to patients.

You might want to download this e-book:

http://my.extension.uiuc.edu/documents/257080502080208/Emotional_Intelligence_13-18.pdf

Mindfulness Resource

Here is an interesting resource on mindfulness.

http://www.psychologytools.org/mindfulness.html

Will you live to be 100-years-old?

Go this this life-calculator at the link below.
This could be a good resource for RTs


http://calculator.livingto100.com/calculator

Mine says I should live to 77. Wow, I've got 45 more years.

This site also gives suggestions and tips to improve health.

Rock Creation Therapy!

Rock-Creation Therapy




by Brian Bruggeman, M.A., CTRS

Go here to order: http://www.jugglewell.com/rock-creation_26.html


Introducing Rock-Creation Therapy!

It is the healing and mystical properties of rocks and gemstones have been recorded throughout history for thousands of years. Rock-Creation Therapy is not intended to espouse these qualities but to use rocks and gemstones as a metaphor that can be used to create a healthier lifestyle.

In Rock-Creation Therapy, participants will examine various rocks and gemstones and then process their experience through a variety of worksheets.

Some of the themes include:
• Leisure Education
• Gratitude
• Healthy Lifestyle Choices

Rock-Creation Therapy provides everything that you need to run a successful program:
• 15 beautiful rocks and gemstones in a velvet bag.
• 5 worksheets to help participants process their experience.
• Additional activity ideas.
• Resource suggestions to increase your knowledge of rocks and gemstones.

Rock-Creation Therapy is perfect for:
• Behavioral Health Programs
• Drug Rehabilitation
• Physical Rehabilitation
• Geriatric Programs

Rock-Creation Therapy is an innovative and unique method to teach wellness programming to your clients. Order today!

It is only $20 plus $5 shipping and handling

For more information and to order, visit the website at
http://www.jugglewell.com/rock-creation_26.html

or email Brian at brian@jugglewell.com

Caregiver Village

Dear Rec. Therapist:

Check out Caregiver Village!

It is an online community designed exclusively for those who provide care for anyone with special needs.

Caregiver Village members connect with friends, participate in book clubs with celebrity authors, journal, play mystery games, solve puzzles, and learn valuable information about caregiving. The founders of Caregiver Village have also just put aside a portion of the launch funding to support caregiving organizations. For every person that joins Caregiver Village, they will donate $1 to that persons organization of choice. I've created a page which explains everything:

http://www.caregivervillage.com/social-media

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

I had the privilege to attend a training session on the Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Model. This was a mandatory training for all the employees where I work at. It was presented by Sarah Jarvis, Psy,D.

I’m very glad I attended this session and I was very pleased to hear that all staff at my facility will get to attend this training too!

The training was based on the DBT model developed by Marsha Linehan, Ph.D. (University of Washington).

The DBT model is designed for treating people with severe, chronic, multi-diagnosis, and/ or people who are difficult to treat.

DBT assumes the following:
a.) Patient is doing best that they can.
b.) Patient wants to improve
c.) Patients need to do better, try harder and be motivated to change.
d.) Patient must learn new behaviors in all relevant contexts.
e.) Patient may not have caused all their problems, but they need to solve them anyways.
The lives of these individuals are unbearable as they are currently being lived.

The most caring thing we can do for our patients is to help them get closer to THEIR goals. Clarity and compassion is needed.

We need to help our patient learn how to regulate emotions. This is a balancing process that includes: change, acceptance, problem-solving, and validation.

Here are several types:

• High sensitivity: immediate reaction and low tolerance.


• High reactivity: extreme emotional/ behavior and disruption in cognitive process.


• Slow return to balance: requires extreme time to “calm down” and increased vulnerability to additional stimulus. This could re-start the cycle.
  

Here is an important key concept to remember:
Stress with our patients could lead to suicide, attempts, self-harmful behavior, substance abuse, social, occupational problems, clinical disorders/ syndromes, and continued maladaptive behavior.

For the service providers (therapists, counselors, rec. therapist) etc. it could create situations of chaos, distress, feeling fear, worry, or anger. There is tension within the system.

Here is another important key concept to remember:
Growth can’t occur in a stressed environment. People can’t learn in stress.

Introduction to Validation Therapy
This was first started with the geriatric population. Identify them as a person.
Here are some ways to offer comfort/ touch:
Acknowledge them, value them, re-assure, comfort, make them know they’re worthy, and worthy of being listened to, and that they’re important!

Here is a basic definition of validation:
Listening and observing, reflective statements, nonverbal signs of listening, being open and curious, and stating unspoken signs of emotions.

As a Rec. Therapist, I need to be mindful of what my body is communication.
Don’t ask “Why” questions because this puts a person on the defensive side. State, “I’m curious to know, could you explain to me.”

Here are some good tips:
Recognize past learning.
Focus on here and now (and not yesterday or previous problems)
Talk in a soft, calm tone of voice, have an open stance, use eye-contact, and even silence can be a type of validation. Be a good listener. Connect with the individual/ patient and try to be in the moment.

Invalidation often leads to power struggles and arguments.

Here are some things that invalidate a person:
Missing the point, using should/ ought, making it sound easy, assuming/ generalization.

Evidenced-based practice:

Validation creates a therapeutic environment for positive growth and change. It is a great tool for de-escalation, hope and healing. It assists in creating change and maintaining health.

Based on my personal experiences, I think “validating others” is a skill that comes natural to many people in the human-service/ helping field.

Recreational therapists may want to consider taking trainings: on mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotional regulation, and distress tolerance.

Here are two recommended resources:


And here is one more:

Teambuilding Interventions (Teaching boundaries)

I had the opportunity to attend the “Teambuilding with Offenders/ Boundaries Session by M. Gail Cecil, CTRS. This was presented at the 2011 Annual American Therapeutic Recreation Association’s conference in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The focus of this session was on implementation of teambuilding activities for people who need to develop healthy and appropriate boundaries. Persons with this need could be offenders who lack empathy for others.

She defined teambuilding as activities that are designed d to encourage people to work cooperatively. She defined cooperation as working together: the act of working or acting together to achieve common goals.

Gail Cecil provides services for about 460 male sex offenders who are 19 years or older at a detention and treatment facility.

Gail points out that a Rec. Therapist can’t run something she (or he) has not done before. Basically, the Rec. Therapist needs to have competencies in the interventions she (or he) is providing.

Gail also points out the importance of debriefing at the end of a session. She says that if you don’t debrief then it is just an activity. The debriefing is the part that makes it therapeutic. Here are some general guidelines for debriefing: equal circle so eye contact can be made with everyone. Start questions with things the Rec. Therapist observed in the group session. What were the group’s difficulties? How did they overcome these challenges? Or how could they have done better? Gail likes to get the “Bad: out of the way first and then move towards the positives. I like this idea. End the session on a positive note. What were their strong points and strengths? What did the group participants do well?

The purpose of the debriefing is basically: how are these skills going to help you (the participant) in the future?

I’ve heard these “debriefings” called different things in different settings. I often use the word, “wrap-up” when working with children in adolescents. Some therapists who I work with call it “processing” the group session.

Here are some of the general expectations that Gail Cecil pointed out for teambuilding:
Diversity, respect, acceptance, goal-oriented, using resources, collaboration, communication, etc.
An Ice-Breaker Activity

Gail uses ice-breakers to assess a group and to determine the people who she is providing services for. It is a good way to observe the group dynamics. Look for people who are leaders, followers, and for people who lack boundaries.

She provided an ice-breaker activity to help the participants who attended this group session to get to know each other. She made the comment that we Recreational Therapists sit around the big tables at the general sessions and lunches and have the basic conversations: Where are you from? What population do you serve? What setting do you work in? I’m sure I laughed aloud because that seems to be so true based on my expectations from attending conferences. Here is a picture of the dining hall at the 2011 ATRA conf. in Indy (to the right).



During this ice-breaker activity that Gail facilitated, “each participant shared their name and a favorite place. I regret to say that I can’t remember all of the participants in my little circle. However, I did have the opportunity to meet Anel Van Rooy, CTRS who was sitting right beside me. She said her favorite place was her parent’s farm. I noticed that her accent was different from ones that I know, but I couldn’t place where she was from. Naturally, Gail’s ice-breaker headed into more conversations. I asked Anel where her parent’s farm is at. Anel told our small group circle that she is from South Africa, which, I think is really awesome.

Anel earned her B.A. in Recreation from North Western University and her graduate degree at Eastern Washington University. She is going to take a lot of neat things back to South Africa with her! I was glad I had the opportunity to meet her and so many other Recreational Therapists who are doing wonderful things.

Gail introduced a second question once all of the group participants had answered the first one. She had us state when was the last time we had visited our favorite place.
Other ice-breaker questions that Gail pointed out where to have group members
to:

• a.) Answer: Who am I?





• b.) Line up and get in alphabetical order by first name. Gail had us to practice this one too, however, we had to be silent and we couldn’t use sign-language. We could use body language and non-verbal communication.





• c.) Make a shape. This is where the group members hold a rope or string. They must form shapes with the string. Gail suggested state borders. In example: Colorado would be easy to create because it is more of a square shape. West Virginia would be a little difficult however, but I’d like to see a group try to do it. I provide services for children and I have a deck of cards that show the state borders and it has facts on the back. I plan to use this deck of cards! I’m having a Halloween carnival at our residential facility in October. This is for diversion and beyond their typical day of therapy activities. I plan to have several small groups of children participating in teams to create Halloween shapes: pumpkin, ghost, haunted house, etc. We’ll compare each of the three to four team’s shapes. Gail suggested using toilet tissue if the placement does not allow ropes or strings due to precautions.
  

More Interventions

Cecil had the participants in this training to participate in several other activities that we could take back to our own facilities and use as interventions.
Gail had hand-outs for activities titled: traffic jam, I am the egg man, Ultimate, What are your values?, and read my emotions. I’m going to email Gail to see if she’ll email me these documents so I can post them at this blog.

Here are some of the resources she suggested:

Rec. Therapist: Need Malpractice Insurance?

Dear Rec. Therapist,

Do you need insurance?

I use HPSO. They sent me an email reminder that I needed to renew my insurance.

I thought other RTs might be interested in this.


HPSO Malpractice Insurance

NCTRC Specialty Certification.

I had the opportunity to attend a session on the National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification (NCTRC)’s new Specialty Certification at the 2011 ATRA conf.

It was presented by two of the NCTRC credentialing specialists: Robin McNeal and Susan Kaufer (shown in the picture).

The Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist (CTRS) is the benchmark for our profession. An individual who has earned this credential demonstrates that she (or he) has met the minimum standards needed for practice.

NCTRC created the specialty certification to acknowledge the CTRS who has met higher standards in one of the following areas:

Physical Medicine/ Rehabilitation (PMR)
Geriatrics (Geri)
Developmental Disabilities (DD)
Behavioral Health (BH)
Community Inclusion Services (CIS)

NCTRC pointed out rationales for the new specialty certification program, including:

a.) Provide incentive for the CTRS to advance her (or his) professional competence

b.) Develop areas of “specialization” in our profession (much like other professionals)

c.) Improve the CEU offerings at conferences. There will be more training offered in these specialty areas to help more people to earn the specialty certificate.

d.) This should help build a critical mass of graduate-level certificates. There are two paths to earning the specialty certification. One path includes a graduate degree in TR or RT. The individual would need to take a certain amount of course credit hours in the specialty area too. Many of our allied professionals have moved to advanced degrees as the bench mark to practice. Currently, RT/TR is still at the Bachelor Degree level. This new certificate program could help increase the number of practitioners in our field who have a Master’s degree.

I [Danny Pettry] have not applied for one of these yet.

I feel I have met all of the requirements for the Behavioral Health. I am going to apply, but I plan to wait and do it during my 5-year CTRS cycle so they’ll both be on the same cycle.

For more information, visit NCTRC here:

http://www.nctrc.org/SpecCert.htm

Heart Rate Variability

I attended a training titled: “Using heart rate coherence and variability as indicators of well-being” at the ATRA conference this morning.

It was presented by Diane Groff, Ed.D., LRT/CTRS.
I’m a big fan of this and I have attended similar trainings at nearly every ATRA conference I’ve attended: Annual in Kansas City, Mid-year in D.C. area, Annual in Minneapolis, and today’s session.

I’ve decided that I must start using this with the patients who I serve in my own practice.
Diana had shown data from cancer survivors that showed why the Heart rate coherence and heart rate variability are important to well-being.

I think this is wonderful!

I provide services for children who have had explosive physical and verbal outbursts. I think this equipment could be a great pro-active tool for teaching the child how to self-regulate her (or his) emotions.

We, recreational therapists can have a strong impact in regards to emotions.

Naturally, people experience a wide-range of emotions. All people feel anxious, stressed, angry, or sad from time to time. Recreational Therapists can apply “Choice Theory” when working with clients to help teach them that they can decide how long they want to stay in a certain emotional state.

There are techniques that can help a person to move into more balanced states.

The basic techniques taught during this session include:
a.) Deep-breathing (in through the nose and out through the mouth)
b.) Focus on heart (as in breathing out of your heart area)
c.) Focus on a time (and actually feeling) love and appreciation.

The computer monitor had showed the measurements on the screen with a volunteer.

Diane Groff had first got a baseline to show where the volunteer is on a normal basis. She then asked some very difficult math and history questions to purposely stress the volunteer. The monitor showed dramatic changes on the screen immediately as the volunteer was trying to solve these. Diane said that with enough practice a person could learn to control their HRT and HRC so they would not respond in a negative way. It takes some practice.

There is a company called the Institute of HeartMath that had several products that measure heart rate coherence (HRC) and heart rate variability.

There web-site is:
http://www.heartmath.org

I plan to order their hand-held device for both personal and professional use.

I hope to teach the children who I provide services for to learn how to self-regulate their emotions so they can be in a more calmer state so they’re better able to solve difficult situations in non-violent methods.

Diane gave a list with many resources, including: book and articles.

There are two books that I want to read:

1.) "The Coherent Heart: Heart-brain interactions" by R. McCraty, M. Atkinson, D. Tomasion, and R. T. Bradley.

2.) The appreciative heart: the psychophysiology of positive emotions and optimal functioning" by R. McCrary and D. Childre

JO ANNE HARRISON-BECKER [Resource]

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Download an e-book

You can download an e-book for helping a child to be successful.

I thought this might a good resource for Rec. Therapists who work with children/ and or families to have.

Go here:


http://www.crchealth.com/aspen-adoption-download-01/

WHO report

Heather Porter said, "A colleague passed the below onto me...and I thought you might be interested in it as well." She sent the below info. to the ATRA ListServ Members.

Danny P.: I thought this was very interesting. I'm putting at my blog for you to read.


-WHO | World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/disabilities/world_report/2011/en/index.html

The first ever World report on disability , produced jointly by WHO and the World Bank, suggests that more than a billion people in the world today experience disability.
People with disabilities have generally poorer health, lower education achievements, fewer economic opportunities and higher rates of poverty than people without disabilities. This is largely due to the lack of services available to them and the many obstacles they face in their everyday lives.

The report provides the best available evidence about what works to overcome barriers to health care, rehabilitation, education, employment, and support services, and to create the environments which will enable people with disabilities to flourish.

The report ends with a concrete set of recommended actions for governments and their partners.

This pioneering World report on disability will make a significant contribution to implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. At the intersection of public health, human rights and development, the report is set to become a "must have" resource for policy-makers, service providers, professionals, and advocates for people with disabilities and their families.

This Book Might Save Your Child's Life.

Do You Know How to Protect your Children from Cyber Crimes?

Has your child ever been the victim of cyberbullying?

If not, the odds are pretty high that one day he or she will be.

The sad fact is 50% of teens admit to being bullied online or by text message.

Did you know that 71% of teens receive messages from STRANGERS online?

(Often from adults posing as children.)

Important Question: Do you want to know how to PROTECT your kids from the potential hazards of the internet and cell phones?

Of course you do.

Today’s youth are falling victim to the perils of social media and cell phone messaging. And most parents are WITHOUT the tools to help their kids. Are you one of them?

Introducing The Parent’s Guide to Texting, Facebook, and Social Media: Understanding the Benefits and Dangers of Parenting in a Digital World by Shawn Marie Edgington.

Buy This Book on May 17th From The Link Below and You'll Do a Good Deed:

All royalties from the May 17, 2011s sale of this book will be donated to the:

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In 2006, Tina Meier’s thirteen year old daughter Megan took her own life as a result of a neighbor who set up a fake profile online pretending to be a young boy. Megan was harassed and bullied until she could see no way out of the pain.

As sad as it is, once every half hour a child commits suicide as a result of being bullied. And most parents never have any idea the severity of what’s happening.
The Parent’s Guide is the only book that gives you:

• The Fundamentals of mobile messaging, Facebook, and other media platforms

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• Ten signs of cyber-bullying with measures to defend against cyber bullies

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• Ways to use “parental controls” to provide peace of mind and empower children to defend against online harassment


The Parent's Guide provides awareness, solutions and preventative resources to keep children safe and secure online.

With defensive parenting and constant communication, parents can TEACH children about the potential dangers of social networking and EMPOWER them to protect themselves from online predators. You can GUARD your child’s personal information, PRESERVE their online reputation, and learn how to determine friends from "frenemies."

Knowledge is power! Parents aware of what's happening can get involved and facilitate change.

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Protect your children from online predators! Click the link below to learn more.




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Lawyers using zen!

This article says that many laywers are unhappy and they're seeking out alternatives for stress reduction.

I thought Recreational Therapists would be interested in this article.

I think there is a potential for RTs to open up outpatient centers. Of course, the RT would have to have a target population and a selected set of interventions that she/ or he is competent in providing. I'd even like to see a physician order for people to go to these centers.

Here is an example of one that I'd like to see: a Stress Reducation and Relaxation Center (maybe for all ages). It would have biofeedback training, meditation, maybe a therapy garden area. These are just some of my thoughts.

Read the article about lawyers and zen.

Maybe a lawyer could be your first client at your Relaxation and Wellness Center.

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/11/seeking-serenity-when-lawyers-go-zen/?hpt=C2

Prevent Cognitive Loss

Brenda Torress, CTRS informed me about Dr. Levine's TTAP Program that teaches Brain and domain functioning in preventing cognitive loss, Alzheimer's, and rebuilding/maintaining a healthy brain!

Brenda is also TTAP Certified and she plans to utilize the technique in her professional practice through cognitive,physical,social,emotional,and spiritual stimulation!

Here is a video with Dr. Levine that Brenda had shared:




Here is a link for Dr. Linda LEvine's book: