Why I talk so much about the importance of opportunity to engage in MEANINGFUL occupations in inpatient settings -Prolonged occupational deprivation leads to 'despair, erosion of skills, poverty, poor health and social isolation'.Activities are not just something nice to do!

🚫 OCCUPATIONAL DEPRIVATION: theOThub.com/post/occupatio… 'Prolonged restriction from participation in necessary or meaningful activities due to circumstances outside the individual's control.' A subject we will ALL be addressing in the months ahead #COVID19 #OccupationalTherapy

⚖️ Occupational deprivation is inevitable right now. But how are you trying to maintain some form of balance? 🌐 Graphics: theOThub.com/gallery #OccupationalTherapy #COVID19

We like this description of #OccupationalDeprivation from a paper written by Gail Elizabeth Whiteford et al. (2019) "Combatting occupational deprivation and advancing occupational justice in institutional settings". #OTalk

"Occupational deprivation results in having a lack of meaning or purpose in your life and creates or prolongs mental and physical illnesses. This is due to prolonged occupational deprivation leading to despair, erosion of skills, poverty, poor health and social isolation."

Great application of MOHOST in latest OTnews - analysing impact of occupational deprivation during the pandemic.

#PDAAutism

Thought I'd post on this. I haven't posted on #PDAAutism in a while. We need more recognition to this. We desperately do. 🙏🙏💖✨️🤔 #Autist

Come and Join us at #TeamLaureate on our all female PICU Blake Ward. Lots of opportunity to grow your clinical and quality improvement skills. We’ll be here to support your development! Greater Manchester Mental Health

The Nintendo switch has been used successfully to support a service user in having as much of a routine that reflects their interests whilst in seclusion. It's also supporting staff & service user engagement... by playing fifa together! Pokemon has been requested and ordered!

🚨I’m delighted to announce that we now have an official NHS England Chief AHP Officer bulletin   🗞️Interested in receiving the latest news, guidance & updates on national policy & delivery priorities relating to #AHPs? 📝Sign-up here 👉 england.nhs.uk/email-bulletin… WeAHPs 💙

Has anyone ever delivered educational sessions on toxic masculinity? Perhaps you know someone who can? I use to have a contact many moons ago and I can't seem to find someone knowledgeable in this area. Thank you!

Share it widely WeAHPs 💙 Greater Manchester Mental Health L A U R A Amy Lea jeno19078 Fiona Johnston OT Lakshmi Palanivel MCSP 💙 Jacqui Goodchild Tasha_SLT Charlotte Herman Ingrid Naomi McVey 🐝 Steve Tolan Stephen Sandford

"The Lived Experience of Thinking in Pictures in Self-Declared Autistic Adults" Lucie Bouvet & Guillon explores themes related to the cognitive styles of autistic adults who describe visual thinking. NEW FREE to Sept 9 liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/au…

We deliver training packages and bespoke training for schools. Our training is positive & neuro-affirmative, set in the wider neurodiversity framework. We strongly encourage schools to make it teacher-wide or have robust plans to cascade to all staff. bit.ly/AGNSchoolsTrg

Changes to HCPC's conduct, performance and ethics standards come into effect today (Sunday 1 September)! 📚 Make sure your knowledge is up to date: loom.ly/CViDxRA

#First time #Climbed #snowdon #MentalHealthAwareness Greater Manchester Mental Health #peer mentor #Lived #experience #Great #leadership Marc Lowden 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Kieran Jones Supporting the start of #3peak #challenge WeAHPs 💙 Tony Warne Suzanne Robinson Karen Howell HellomynameisSalli (Louise)💙 RMN/RGN (she/her) Maria Nelligan 💙 Gemma Mlambo 💙#NHS L A U R A

We're getting ready to launch our new occupational therapy and perinatal mental health e-learning programme. 🧸 A big thank you to the programme leads who joined us last week to discuss the programme's benefits in supporting the people we work with!

So proud to have been a part of this. Look out for the perinatal neurodiversity module 👀 Sammy porter Kate Halsall Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust L A U R A