Browsing by Subject "self-care"

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    Medicine and the Arts Week 2 - In dialogue about children's voices
    (2015-01-21) Levine, Susan; Callaghan, Nina; Abney, Kate; Hendricks, Marc
    In this video, Associate Professor Susan Levine pose questions to Dr. Hendricks, Dr. Kate Abney, as well as Nina Callaghan in an attempt to unlock some of the synergies that brings their various perspectives into focus. Marc Hendricks is asked how doctors take care of themselves in dealing with the deaths, illness and victories of their patients’ stories. Kate talks about how she has used art as part of her research methodology and discusses how the issue of time surfaced in her work at the TB hospital. Nina provides an example of a child she had worked with. This is the fifth video in Week 2 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    TEDI 2 Week 4 - Taking Care of Yourself
    (2019) Couper, Jacqui
    In this video, Jacqui Couper stresses on the need for educators to take care of themselves because it is only when they do this that they will be able to care for and teach the children, as well as positively interact with colleagues and parents of the children. Using an analogy of plants and a water can Jacqui foregrounds the need for teachers to constantly refill their energies through healthy life styles in order to cope with the exigencies of teaching and avoiding burnout. She then elaborately discusses how teachers can do so. This video lecture 2/5 of week 4 of the course: Educating Deaf Children: Becoming an Empowered Teacher.
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    TEDI 4 Week 4 - Caring for the care-giver
    (2019-06-01) Couper, Jacqui
    In this video, Jacqui Cooper discusses caring for the carer of children with severe to profound intellectual disabilities. Jacqui discusses the importance of supporting carers and care-workers, given the rates of mental health problems (such as depression) in society. She talks about the importance of authentic self-care and discusses some strategies for effective self-care, both as individuals or as part of a work team, acknowledging the emotional and physical burden of care work on the caregiver and the need for care workers to renew their energy to avoid compassion fatigue or burn-out. She discusses the importance of shared goals within a care team to promote a shared culture and acknowledgement of the need for self-care. She closes with advocating for the importance of developing cultures of self-care and mutual care within the workplace.
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    TEDI 4 Week 4 - TEDI research
    (2019-06-01) Henkeman, Thandi
    In this video, Thandi Henkeman discusses the four core themes that emerged from research conducted with the students of the TEDI face-to-face course, namely 1) advocacy, 2) collaboration, 3) developing relationships with learners with severe to profound intellectual disability, and 4) self-care. She discusses the four main themes and the main findings that emerged from interviews and research with the students on the TEDI course.