Distress-Informed Care: The Science of Distress along with Guidelines for Service Providers and Clinicians working with Māori

An interactive introduction to Distress-Informed Care (DIC) involving the science behind trauma and distress and how this relates to Māori, along with simple guidelines for a variety of service provider and clinical practice backgrounds relating to Māori, followed by integration of the course content into a workshop involving hypothetical case studies.

Description

Aim

This interactive introductory course aims to provide members of the public, healthcare workers, and socio-economic support services an understanding of the factors, mechanisms, and systems associated with trauma and distress along with how this relates to Māori. The science behind trauma and distress will then be integrated into safe and effective DIC-based guidelines designed to achieve earlier intervention, improved direction towards specialist services, improved intervention strategies, in addition to improved outcomes and prognosis for Māori. The science and guidelines will then be integrated into an interactive workshop involving hypothetic case studies.

Overview and Learning Intentions

  • An awareness of the common distress-factors, along with how they relate to each other

  • An awareness of thoughts, feelings, and behaviour associated with distress

  • An awareness of the mechanisms and systems associated with distress

  • An awareness of the brain physiology, brain structures, and neuroplastic changes associated with distress

  • An awareness of how the above overview and learning intentions involving distress relate to Māori

  • Develop an understanding of simple guidelines and tests designed to achieve earlier intervention, improved direction towards specialist services, improved intervention strategies, in addition to improved outcomes and prognosis for Māori

  • Apply simple, safe, and effective DIC-based guidelines to a wide range of service provider and clinical scopes involving Māori

  • Apply simple, safe, and effective DIC-based guidelines to a wide range of client distress-related presentations involving Māori

  • Discuss hypothetical case studies in order to integrate the course content (I warmly encourage you to bring your own case studies provided that appropriate permission has been obtained)

Let's Get Real

1. Working with people experiencing mental health and addiction needs

4. Working within communities

6. Applying law, policy and standards

7. Maintaining professional and personal development

 

$250 for all 3 workshops in the series. Or $125.00 for the 4-hour workshops and $95 for the 3-hour workshop. See other workshops in the series below:

Distress-Informed Care: The Science of Distress along with Guidelines for Service Providers and Clinicians

A Review & Comparison of Modern Health & Wellbeing Literature with the Te Whare Tapa Whā Model

 

Facilitated by Kore Tombs

BPhty (Otago), Senior Physiotherapist, Clinical Advisor

Kore brings around 26 years of experience working predominantly as a self-employed private practitioner, and around 9 years of medico-legal experience as a clinical advisor, along with also having developed a number of special interest areas and roles in both work and community-based settings. In addition to this, Kore also brings a unique perspective involving his own neurodiversity, along with mentoring from early childhood in Social Work and Te Ao Māori. These experiences have motivated Kore to write with the aim of publishing and conducting further research in a variety of areas relating to distress, health and well-being, clinical practice, causation, and traditional Māori matauranga.

 

Workshop Type: Intermediate | Workshop Level: Six | Catering: Refreshments provided

Terms and Conditions

  • Cancellations made up to 10 working days before a workshop will incur a $39 service fee.

  • Cancellations (or non-attendance) made 10 working days or less will not be refunded and the full workshop fee will be charged. 

  • No fee applies if you are able to find a replacement participant.

  • MHERC reserves the right to cancel a workshop at any time due to unforeseen circumstances or insufficient registrations.

  • Only one person may view a webinar session per registration.

Please read our full Terms and Conditions before registering.