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Mindfulness for SLPs: Post-Work Stress and Burnout

December 30, 2021 by Megan Berg.
As SLPs, we bear witness to dramatic change in people’s lives. This consistently high demand for empathy and compassion puts SLPs and other healthcare professionals on a fast track to burnout. This mindfulness exercise is designed to counter the idea that you’re not enough and to provide a boundary between your work time and your home time.
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Mindfulness for SLPs: Before Going Into Work

December 30, 2021 by Megan Berg.
Productivity standards, facility politics, patient-family dynamics, and the sheer weight of almost constant conversation and connection with people on a daily basis can mean we sometimes wake up and think… I’m not sure I can get through this day. This mindfulness exercise is designed to allow your mind, body, and soul to rest and re-center, generating renewed energy to offer compassion, grace, and empathy to those we serve.
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Mindfulness for SLPs: Before a Care Conference

December 30, 2021 by Megan Berg.
Therapists are often are left in charge of informing patients and their families of significant cognitive impairments. Often, there is denial, anger, sadness, loss, and shock that comes, unfortunately many times targeted at the messenger. This mindfulness exercise is designed to allow you the space to advocate for patients’ independence and freedom of choice.
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Mindfulness Exercise for SLPs: The Paradox of Grief and Transformation

December 30, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This mindfulness exercise is designed for SLPs working in rehabilitation environments where patients are experiencing grief following a significant change in their lives. The exercise is designed to bring mindfulness to the process of transformation that can only occur through the doorway of grief.
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Mindfulness Exercise for SLPs: Motivational Interviewing

December 30, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This exercise ties into the book Motivational Interviewing in Health Care: Helping Patients Change Behavior. Motivational interviewing is a practice that you can mindfully incorporate into your daily therapy routine. This exercise can ultimately lead to a better relationship between you and your patients with higher levels of self-motivation and participation in the rehabilitation process.
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Mindfulness Exercise for SLPs: In the Face of Resistance

December 30, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This exercise is intended to provide the frame of mind you need in order to face and embrace resistance within a rehab therapy setting. It is best suited for a one-on-one session when you are addressing a change in status (e.g., stroke, brain injury, diagnosis) that has led to the need for change (e.g., using memory strategies, establishing a payee, giving up driving, etc).
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Mindfulness Exercise for SLPs: Aphasia Awareness

December 30, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This exercise is intended to do two things: 1) Provide awareness about the existence of aphasia and how people can be most helpful when meeting someone with aphasia and 2) provide clinicians with a mindful perspective about what it means to be unable to communicate for a short period of time.
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Mild Cognitive Impairment

December 30, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This handout explains this diagnosis in general terms and provide some lifestyle suggestions to help MCI.
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