Articles tagged under ‘Self efficacy / confidence’

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• Re-calibrating Resilience - test your resilience strengths

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• Prehabilitation: improving the results of surgery

  Prehabilitation is an approach to aid people recover from surgery and increase the likelihood of a good outcome.

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• Self-Management: training the treaters

  Self-management is a vital part of recovery from illness, but how can treaters be trained to encourage self-management in their patients?

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• Broken people from broken systems

  For many injured workers, the greatest challenge is not the extent of their injuries but the depth of their despair.

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• The power of learned optimism

  How 'learned optimism' can improve return to work outcomes: Breaking down Theo Feldbrugge's webinar presentation.

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• Who's the boss?

  The health and wellbeing of people with chronic illness improves when they become "self-managers". Are there lessons here for RTW?

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• Believe and You Will Cope

  'Self-efficacy' is more than just an odd-sounding word. Superdoc explains who needs self-efficacy skills - and why it's in your interest to help develop them.

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• The power of storytelling

  The impact of 'patient narrative' - first-hand stories of illness and injury - shouldn't be underestimated. (Includes video footage.)

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• Superdoc (8) - Back pain and the 'fear avoidance model'

  Our Superhero Superdoc is back on back pain and the importance of not being afraid of it.

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• SuperDoc (3) - On the importance of listening - and saying no.

  Super Doc gives a super-spiel about the importance of listening - and saying no

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• Frustrated by "victims"?

  People who believe they've been treated unfairly have lower functional ability than those who think that they've had a fair go. How can you get them past the victim mentality?

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• Teaching WorkCover claimants to sell themselves

  In pain, low in confidence, and down at heart: it can be a hard slog to get back into the workforce. Here's the juice on helping people find a job.

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• Sunny side down

  Is it possible to have too much optimism? And what's the best approach to take when you're confronted by someone else's pessimism?

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• Sunny side up

  What is optimism? How is it good for health? When is it wise, in professional life, to get your grin on?

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• Dealing with the victim mentality

  In response to a reader's questions, our resident Occ Phys explains how to encourage a proactive approach to return to work.

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• Quick Guide: Self efficacy

  Not every injured or ill worker has the "I think I can" attitude of the Little Engine That Could. But you can get them there!

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• Fact sheet: PSYCHO WHAAT? PSYCHOSOCIAL!

  The most common barriers to RTW are "psychosocial". Getting to know them makes it possible to overcome them.

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• What's more painful than chronic pain? Chronic pain in 'The System'

  Workers' comp and RTW systems can exacerbate chronic pain, but as Coralie Wales from Chronic Pain Australia explains, that's not the end of the story...

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• Motivation - Part Five

  A look at self-efficacy and how it can be maximised in patients.

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• Motivation: Part one

  The first instalment in a six-part series of articles on Motivation in rehabilitation.

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• Complacency in return to work programs does not produce good outcomes

  An injured worker, with knee injuries and heart condition, is made redundant and has to deal with the concern that no other employer will take him on.

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• From fighting cancer to fostering Cancer Voices

  Cancer survivor John Stubbs talks about his journey back to good health and back to work, in a hugely important role.

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• We are the most important medicine

  Partnership is a fundamental element of the road to recovery.

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• Research short: link found between pain symptoms and confidence

  Believing that you can cope with whatever life brings you has a positive impact on pain symptoms - and there are ways of assessing coping confidence at work.

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• Empowering workers to stay in their original employment.

  Based on the rationale that it is easier to keep a job than to find a new one, the new focus of vocational rehabilitation for workers with chronic conditions is empowering the worker to stay in their original position.

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• A chicken and the egg problem: Self efficacy, sickness absence and return to work

  If you feel you can cope with a difficult situation will you get back to work earlier?

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• Taking control of arthritis

  Psychosocial approaches to managing arthritis help sufferers make the most of medical care.

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• Non-surgical treatment options for chronic back pain

  Exercise, behavioural and multimodal programs: What works for RTW and why?

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• School of (back) pain!

  Brief, face-to-face education works best for chronic LBP rehabilitation