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A Wellness Model for Personal & Professional Practice
June 9, 2015
Wellness Model
A paradigm for understanding heath
Encompasses 8 dimensions
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1) Social2) Emotional3) Intellectual4) Occupational
5) Environmental6) Financial7) Spiritual8) Physical six domains
sleep and rest healthy food choices
habits and routinesphysical activity
medical self-care and screeningsstress management and relaxation
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Many people with
mental and substance use disorders (as well as staff providing services)
face challenges
due to life stressors, reducing effectiveness in life roles, with a negative effect on well-being
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Professional & Peer providers are poised to address these stressors and to promote
wellnessthrough engagement in
meaningful occupation and through developing good
health habits and routines
Today’s Focus
How peers, providers, families, and policy makers can:
• examine what they are doing now
• suggest new ways to create and sustain a wellness lifestyle as an effective means of personal self-care
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Learning Objectives
• Define the 8 wellness dimensions and 6 physical wellness domains
• Explain the importance of the physical wellness domains
• Identify professional and personal applications
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Overview
• Factors that contribute to Poor Health
• Wellness Model
• Strategies to Address Comorbid Conditions
• Promising Practices:
– Wellness for Life
– Wellness Coaching
• Personal and Professional Application
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What We Have in Common
We want to have meaning and purpose in life, as we define it
We have
• personal and material resources and natural supports to help us experience a better quality life
We need compassion, understanding, respect
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We Can Benefit By
…bridging our individual and collective experiences to bring about positive change within our multiple communities of identity
– Work
– School
– Neighborhoods
– Families and friends
– Citizen - community
– Citizen - world
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What We Face
• Challenges
–physical, social, emotional, spiritual
• After-effects of
– financial stress, trauma and abuse
• Poverty and the stigma of poverty
–poor living conditions
• Stress and strain
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Influences on People We Serve
• Income and social status• Social support networks• Education and literacy
(i.e., health literacy)
• Employment /working• Social and physical
environments
• Personal health practices and coping skills
• Child development• Genetic factors • Access to health services • Gender • Culture
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Factors
• Poverty
• Behaviors
• Medication side effects
• Living Situations
• Illness
• Illness-related symptoms
• Inadequate access to timely and good quality healthcare
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Model of the Interaction Between Mental Disorders and Medical Illness
Taken from Druss BG & Reisinger Walker E (2011). Mental disorders and medical comorbidity. Available online at
www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?id=71883. Based on content in Katon WJ (2003). Clinical and health services relationships
between major depression, depressive symptoms, and general medical illness Biological Psychiatry;54 (3). 216-226.
Why Wellness?
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Wellness1,2,3
is a conscious, deliberate process that requires that a person become aware of and make choices for a more satisfying lifestyle
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1 Swarbrick, M. (March 1997). A wellness model for clients. Mental Health Special Interest Section Quarterly, 20, 1-4.
2 Swarbrick, M. (2006). A wellness approach. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 29, (4) 311- 314.
3 Swarbrick, M. (2009). A wellness and recovery model for state hospitals. Occupational Therapy in Mental Health, (25), 343-351.
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High Level Wellness
Wellness is not the absenceof disease, illness, and stress but the presence of:
Purpose in life
Active involvement in satisfying work and play
Joyful relationships
A healthy body and living environment
Happiness Dr. Halbert Dunn
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Wellness
Dunn’s Viewpoint:
• Importance of mind/body/spirit connections
• Need for satisfaction and valued purpose
• A view of health as more than non-illness
Dunn, H.L. (1961). High-Level Wellness. Arlington, VA: Beatty Press;
Dunn, H.L. (1977). What High Level Wellness Means. Health Values, 1(1), 9-16.
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Wellness is Self-Defined
• Individual needs and preferences
• Balance varies from person to person
Wellness is the process of
creating and adapting
patterns of behavior that
lead to improved health
in the wellness
dimensionsWellness Institute Collaborative Support
Programs of New Jersey
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includes a self-defined balance of health habits such as adequate sleep and rest, diet and nutrition, physical activity, participation in meaningful productive activity, and access to supportive relationships.
A Wellness lifestyle
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Wellness Dimensions
8 Wellness Dimensions
Adapted from Swarbrick, M. (2006). A wellness approach. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 29,(4) 311- 314.
8 Wellness Dimensions
Adapted from Swarbrick, M. (2006). A wellness approach. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 29,(4) 311- 314.
8 Wellness Dimensions
Adapted from Swarbrick, M. (2006). A wellness approach. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 29,(4) 311- 314.
8 Wellness Dimensions
Adapted from Swarbrick, M. (2006). A wellness approach. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 29,(4) 311- 314.
8 Wellness Dimensions
Adapted from Swarbrick, M. (2006). A wellness approach. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 29,(4) 311- 314.
8 Wellness Dimensions
Adapted from Swarbrick, M. (2006). A wellness approach. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 29,(4) 311- 314.
8 Wellness Dimensions
Adapted from Swarbrick, M. (2006). A wellness approach. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 29,(4) 311- 314.
8 Wellness Dimensions
Adapted from Swarbrick, M. (2006). A wellness approach. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 29,(4) 311- 314.
8 Wellness Dimensions
Adapted from Swarbrick, M. (2006). A wellness approach. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 29,(4) 311- 314.
Why Focus on Physical?
• Health-related problems (sedentary lifestyle, co-occurring medical
conditions, obesity, symptom burden, smoking status, etc)
• Address medication side effects
• Prevent future illness and disease
• Reduce early mortality
• Improve quality of life
Physical Wellness Domains
• Physical activity
• Nutrition
• Sleep and rest
• Relaxing activities
• Self care practices
• Medical care, screenings, preventative care
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Habitsand
Routines
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Activities that bring purpose, balance,
and pleasure, become part of our
habits and routines
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Health & Wellness
Wellness Coaching
Wellness for Life
Smoking Cessation programs
Health & Lifestyle
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Professional Applications:What We Can Transform
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Personal Applications
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Your Face Here
Peggy Swarbrick, PhD, OT, FAOTAAssociate Professor Rutgers University
Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey Wellness Institute
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Wellness • Legere, L., Nemec, P., Swarbrick, M.
(2013). Personal Narrative as a Teaching Tool. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 26(4), 319-321.
• Swarbrick, M. (2012). A Wellness Approach to Mental Health Recovery. In Recovery of People with Mental Illness. A.Rudnick (ed). Oxford Press.
• Swarbrick, M. (2011). Expertise from Experience: Mental Health Recovery and Wellness. In Graham, Thornicroft, Szmukler, Mueser, & Drake (eds). Oxford Textbook of Community Mental Health. Oxford University Press.
• Swarbrick, M. (2011). The lived Experience: Narratives through the Lens of Wellness. In Serious Mental Illness: Patient Centered Approaches. Rudnick & Roe (eds.). Radcliffe Publ.
• Swarbrick. (2006). A wellness approach. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 29(4) 311- 314.
• Swarbrick, D’Antonio, & Nemec,. (2011). Promoting staff wellness. Psych Rehab Journal (34) 334-36.
• Swarbrick & Moosvi (2010). Wellness: A practice for our lives and work. J of Psychosocial Nursing, 48(7), 2-3.
• Swarbrick, Hutchinson, & Gill. (2008). The quest for optimal health: Can education and training cure what ails us? Int J of MH, 37(2), 69-88.
• Swarbrick, & Burkhardt. (2000). The spiritual domain of health. MH Special Interest Section Quarterly, 23, 1-3.
• Swarbrick, M. (1997). A wellness model for clients. MH Special Interest Section Quarterly, 20, 1-4.
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Wellness Coaching/Screenings • Swarbrick, M. (2013).
Wellness-oriented peer approaches: A key ingredient for integrated care. Psychiatric Services, 64(8), 723-26.
• Swarbrick, M., Murphy, A., Zechner, M., Spagnolo, A., Gill, K. (2011). Wellness coaching: A new role for peers. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal,34(4), 328–331.
• Brice, G., Swarbrick, M., & Gill, K. (2014). Promoting the health of peer providers through Wellness Coaching.Psychosocial Nursing Journal, 52(1), 41-45.
• Swarbrick, M., Cook, J., Razzano, L., Yudof, J., Cohn, J., Fitzgerald, C., Redman, B., Costa, M., Carter, T. Burke, K., & Yost, C. (2013). Health screening dialogues. Psychosocial Nursing Journal, 51(12), 22-28.
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• Wellness Resourcehttp://hicom.typepad.com/files/wellnessresource-2012-1.pdf
Healthy People 2020http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/default.aspx
National Prevention Strategy http://www.healthcare.gov/prevention/nphpphc/strategy/report.pdf
Wellness Campaignhttp://www.promoteacceptance.samhsa.gov/10by10/wellness_tools.aspx#1
Million Hearts Campaign http://millionhearts.hhs.gov/
Resources
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