The approach is interactive and psycho-educational, with a focus on helping participants to develop individual treatment strategies through active cognitive and behavioural change.
Group CBT is interactive and psychoeducational, with a focus on helping participants to develop strategies to reduce stress, apply paced breathing, and cognitive and behavioural strategies during HF/NS (see Hunter et al, 28 and Hunter and Mann 34 for detailed descriptions of the components of CBT for HF/NS).
With these thoughts in mind, the counselor helped the participant to develop a plan to address these in the future.
The support specialist helped the participant to develop a budget and the participant relayed on her next visit that her financial situation was improving.
This dimension is about defining strategies and making real joint actions happen by feeding foresight results into decision making, but it may also help participants themselves to develop or adjust their own strategies.
Participants helped to develop information packs on climate change and learned practical skills related to disaster risk reduction, drip irrigation, and flood-proofing homes, schools and hospitals.
Gathering background information about personal circumstances or significant health problems from participants helped to develop rapport and to encourage engagement with PLANS: 'I think it gave us an idea of what they might be interested in… and then that helped us with the questionnaire as well.
The workshops' specific objectives were to help participants: (1) develop a shared vision of their team performance; (2) develop a common understanding of performance gaps; (3) collaboratively identify one QI goal, and (4) collaboratively plan a practice change.
While observations spoke for the transference of competences (e.g. the student-led initiative developing a doctoral students' statement on integrity) further discussion might have been beneficial in helping participants to conceptualise the "tools" that they were already applying.
