WORKSHOP: Facing RTW Head-on with your Most Complicated Cases

Facing RTW Head-on with your Most Complicated Cases:

The Power is in the Paradigm

Developed for community OTs and other rehabilitation providers

9am-4pm, Friday, October 18, 2013

The Old Mill Boathouse, at Rocky Point Park

2715 Esplanade, Port Moody, BC

Light breakfast and hot lunch included

$198 per person

Limited space; register by October 1, 2013

Are you feeling stuck? Wondering what else you can do to facilitate a meaningful and sustainable return to work for your client with a complex, chronic condition? Through case scenario-based discussions, this community-based “team” outlines the client-centred, network-based paradigm, and specific strategies, that work.

Objectives:

To better understand:

1.    Evidence regarding RTW as a client-centred rehabilitation outcome

2.    Specific OT strategies and interventions that facilitate RTW

3.    The scope of  PT, psychology and vocational consultants in RTW

4.    How to communicate with (and AS) a team, with a common goal/paradigm

5.    How the team assesses return to work readiness

6.    Ways to get buy-in from third party payers

Presented by:

Pamela Russell, Occupational Therapist, OT Works!

Co-Presenters:

Trevor Blake, Vocational Rehabilitation Consultant

Dr. Wes Buch, Registered Psychologist, Behavioural Health Care

Gillian Tews, Physiotherapist

For information about registration, download the registration form.