Transcript Technology For Your Recovery Journey

Technology For Your Recovery
Journey
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What is Recovery?
• Rejection of an identity/role as a
life-long “mental patient”
• “A process of change through
which individuals improve their
health and wellness, live a selfdirected life, and strive to reach
their full potential.” (SAMSHA)
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What Is Assistive
Technology?
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Focus on Function
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Not on Fixing
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What is Neurodiversity?
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Areas Covered
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Stress, PTSD, Mood apps
Memory tools
Task Management and Completion
Getting Help
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Tools for Mood, Anxiety and
Stress
Smart Phone, iPod and Tablet Applications
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Apps for PTSD
• From Veteran's
Administration.
• App: PTSD Coach
• Available for both
Android and Apple (iOS)
devices
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PTSD Coach
• Can customize based on selfassessment
• Can set up phone numbers to
call for support.
• Can indicate favorites in
manage symptoms.
• Has a chart to track symptoms
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PTSD Coach Symptom
Management
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Breath & Relax
• Guided
relaxation
breathing
• Personalize a bit
with music and
image, rate of
breathing.
• Can chart
stress/relaxation
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T2 Mood Tracker
• Self-Monitor,
track and
references
emotional
experiences
• Can make notes
about what’s
happening at the
time the mood is
experienced.
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“Stinking Thinking”
• Cognitive Behavior
Therapy
• The referee is a hat
you wear, you put on
your referee hat and
evaluate the thought
from a completely
neutral point of view
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Task Completion
• Getting started
• Can’t concentrate or stay
focused
• Remembering all the steps in
a task
• Just too much to do!
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Check it off the list
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Alarms and Timers to Help
with Focus
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Stay on Task App
• It checks up on you to
make sure you're doing
your work and not
loafing. (Can set to
vibrate)
• A random timer means
you can't predict when it
will check on you
• Android app - Free
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Alarms with Audio Reminders
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Memory: What about you?
• Do you have trouble remembering
things?
• What do you do that helps?
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Simple Memory Aids
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Motion Activated Reminders
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Medication Devices
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Voice Recording Devices
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Remembering Phone Numbers
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Recording meetings, classes
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Where are the Keys?
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Michigan’s Assistive
Technology Program
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Device Demonstrations
Email newsletter and webinars
ATXchange.org
AT Loan Fund
Web:
www.mymdrc.org/assistivetech.html
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Last Thoughts
“Recovery, to me, doesn't mean
denying my problems or
pretending that they don't exist. I
have learned a lot from people
with physical disabilities, who
think of recovery not in terms,
necessarily, of restoring lost
function, but of finding ways to
compensate or substitute for what
one may be unable to do.” –
Judi Chamberlin “Confessions of a NonCompliant Patient”
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