Focussing on the exam

I'm sure you're all focussing now on the exam & end of semester clinical assessment. There is still one task to complete.

Multi-disciplinary stress management

As of 10pm on Sunday, no-one has worked on the case study which Judy prepared for you to help you to understand multi-disciplinary stress management. Can you please jump in there now, and answer the questions which she has posed.

Regarding the exam

You could be assessed on anything that we've covered so far. Remember that the exam will be composed of some questions on theories and some case studies that you will be expected to apply your learning to. You should be ensuring that you understand all of the theory that we've covered, and you should be practicing applying this theory to the case studies which will be provided to you through the Intermediate massage blog.

Multi-disciplinary stress management

This week your focus in stress management will be learning about how to work in conjunction with psychological health professionals to help your clients achieve their stress management goals.

Tasks this week

The week will start with an elluminate session on Monday at 11am. In this session Judy will introduce the ideas that you will be working with over the following week.

You will then be directed to apply these ideas to some work over the week.

Multi-disciplinary stress management

Hopefully you now have some level of understanding of how emotions can become stored in the body, how they can be released through massage, and how to deal with this when it happens. Unfortunately my attempt to video the mid-block tutorial wasn't successful (I think I need a tutorial on video camera use or something). In the mid-block tutorial we talked about these things, and clarified them. I've had a request to cover this again, and I'd be happy to run an elluminate or face-to-face tutorial at some stage over the next couple of weeks on this topic if it's required by more people.

Over the next two weeks the topic is multi-disciplinary stress management.

Judy Buckingham is going to talk with you about how counsellors and psychotherapists work with stress so that you can get a better idea about when it's a good idea to refer to a psychological health professional. Details to follow.