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Talk That Heals Home Welcome​ This website is for clinicians and others who are interested in ways of talking and listening that can make a difference. You will find tools and strategies you can use in your practice tomorrow. …Read More We focus on engaging people’s participation in collaborative discovery conversations. For us, using these tools and strategies increases the sense of optimism, ease, lightness and interest in our work. People seem to appreciate what we are offering. We hope you find the website helpful, and we welcome feedback. We… (Search hits: 1 in body, 1 in title, 1 in categories, 1 in tags, 1 in other taxonomies, 1 in comments. Score: 6.75)

Collaborative Psychiatry Every interaction a therapeutic interaction​ In institutionally based mental health work we have required activities such as taking a history, screening for diagnoses, developing and engaging people in care and safety plans, and offering psycho-education. We often think of these activities as different from therapeutic intervention. But we have found that Johnella Bird’s therapeutic strategies can be used in any mental health conversation. When we take up opportunities to engage people we are working with using a collaborative discovery orientation and use therapeutic strategies bring forward the agency,… (Search hits: 1 in body, 1 in title, 1 in categories, 1 in tags, 1 in other taxonomies, 1 in comments. Score: 6.75)

Working with families Being useful to families​​ Ideas underlying this approach: Families hold knowledge and resource which can enable movement Families need to feel (rather than be told about) the respect we hold It seems to be a feature of the societies we live in and the context we work in that families experience a lot of blame and guilt. Experiencing these feelings tends to undermine, rather than enable, parenting. It is extraordinarily unusual, perhaps unknown, for parents not to hold some intentions to parent well, hopes for the best… (Search hits: 1 in body, 1 in title, 1 in categories, 1 in tags, 1 in other taxonomies, 1 in comments. Score: 6.75)

Inpatient Work Optimising psycho-therapeutic input in an acute inpatient unit. Every interaction a therapeutic interaction. Keynote to Swedish CAMHS conference, 23 Apri, 2013, Halmstad Sweden by Josephine Stanton. Note: In preparing this verbal address for the internet I have removed references to, and photographs of, any living people except myself, Andre, Tania Windelborn, Johnella Bird and my friend from whom I sought advice. I have also removed specific reference to my workplace. The views I describe are mine, not those of the organisation. Introduction Thank you for inviting me. It… (Search hits: 1 in body, 1 in title, 1 in categories, 1 in tags, 1 in other taxonomies, 1 in comments. Score: 6.75)

Finding Hope Finding Hope in the Lived Experience of Psychosis: Reflections on Trauma, Use of Power and Re-visioning Psychiatry Book Description​ This book offers first-person accounts of the experience of psychosis from the inside and the outside, through the eyes of two doctors, one of whom has experienced psychosis and both of whom have worked for decades in the field of psychiatry. Underpinned by rigorous academic analysis using an evocative duo-ethnographic approach, the book explores the cultural and subcultural influences from childhood onwards – both traumatic and resilience-building – that… (Search hits: 1 in body, 1 in title, 1 in categories, 1 in tags, 1 in other taxonomies, 1 in comments. Score: 6.75)

The Gift Box www.thegiftbox.lovable.app Introduction to The Gift Box Implementation Project At present there are 40 copies of the first edition of The Gift Box and 50 copies of the second edition, distributed in various settings. It is at the beta testing phase of development, and an implementation project is underway. This video was made to encourage everyone who has a limited edition copy to utilise these invaluable tools and give feedback. We are planning that boxes will be made available on a wider scale once all the data is… (Search hits: 1 in body, 1 in title, 1 in categories, 1 in tags, 1 in other taxonomies, 1 in comments. Score: 6.75)

About Us Profiles​ Josephine Stanton​ My ancestors are a mix of people who emigrated from Scotland, Ireland and England to New Zealand across the nineteenth century. The pioneering spirit of my forebears, looking for new places and new ways alongside commitments to learning and service has served me well. Both my grandmothers went to university, early in the twentieth century when few women did. I think it says a lot about the women that they were and the men who married them. The child of left leaning liberals, I came… (Search hits: 1 in body, 1 in title, 1 in categories, 1 in tags, 1 in other taxonomies, 1 in comments. Score: 6.75)

Stressless Study Study on improving staff well-being by processing troubling memories Ever wondered why we keep recycling the same scenario or event? Our brains are wired to survive. We pay attention to and store threatening, scary or traumatic events to protect us the next time we are exposed to a similar risk. However, storing memories from events that happened in the past can also be unhelpful and uncontrollable, leading to ongoing distress. These memories can play out in your mind (memories, words, pictures) and, also cause a response in your… (Search hits: 1 in body, 1 in title, 1 in categories, 1 in tags, 1 in other taxonomies, 1 in comments. Score: 6.75)