Components: Designing Dementia Care – Self-Guided Timing: 65 Minutes Mode: In-class, Online The video footage, audio excerpts and historical photographs and documents in this unit take learners within the walls of Ontario’s first purpose-built dementia care facility in the late twentieth century. These self-guided resources are well suited for flipped classroom use with an in-class or …
Component Evaluation: Taking a Stance from History Timing: 45 Minutes Mode: In-class; Online None of the positions occupied by our three Speaking to History respondents existed before deinstitutionalization. Mental health patients like Jayne Whyte did not live independently and take active roles in consumer organizations. Service users like Lucy Costa did not go on to …
Component Evaluation: History’s Lessons – Part 2 Timing: 45 Minutes Mode: In-class; Online Students often find policy difficult to understand and can struggle to comprehend how it directly impacts their day-to-day lives. Health professionals have the same challenge linking policy to everyday professional practice. The combination of historical documents and audio commentaries in this lesson …
Component Evaluation: History’s Lessons – Part 1 Timing: 30 Minutes Mode: In-class; Online Students often find policy difficult to understand and can struggle to comprehend how it directly impacts their day-to-day practice. The short set of historical documents and 2 audio commentaries in Components: Saskatchewan – Self-Guided can help them work these issues. Shape your …
Components: Vancouver – Self-Guided Timing: 45 Minutes Mode: In-class; Online The following texts and sets of audio commentaries and primary historical documents allow students to investigate the ideas behind deinstitutionalization in Vancouver, BC. These self-guided resources are well suited for flipped classroom use with an in-class or online discussion or learning activity. Working in class …
Components: Toronto – Self-Guided Timing: 45 Minutes Mode: In-class; Online The following texts and sets of audio commentaries and primary historical documents allow students to investigate the ideas and policies behind deinstitutionalization in Ontario, with a particular focus on Toronto. These self-guided resources are well suited for flipped classroom use with an in-class or online discussion …
Components: Saskatchewan – Self-Guided Timing: 15 Minutes Mode: In-class; Online The following texts and sets of audio commentaries and primary historical documents allow students to investigate the ideas behind deinstitutionalization in Saskatchewan. These self-guided resources are well suited for flipped classroom use with an in-class or online discussion or learning activity. Working in class or …
Past, Present, Future Unit Takeaways Appreciate system user perspectives on mental health policy Understand relations of power in the mental health system (patient/doctor/nurse/staff) Components The components for this unit are three short plays, fictionalized accounts of mental health experiences in the past, present, and imagined future. Play 1: “But Now We Know Better” (past) Transcript …
Tools for Recovery Unit Takeaways Recognize the importance of peer support in developing coping strategies and new skill sets Value creativity and community engagement as pathways to confidence and wellbeing Acknowledge systemic barriers to recovery Component The component for this unit is a recovery memoir by community expert Margo Robinson setting out what she thinks …
Designing Dementia Care Unit Takeaways Recognize that the inherent ageism in our society permeates policy and practice Appreciate the need to create residential care facilities that afford full and dignified lives for older adults with cognitive or physical limitations Understand that in an institutional setting, the conditions of care and the conditions of work are …
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