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Table 1 Content of educational intervention for social workers in focused psychological strategies (SW-fps)

From: An evaluation of the effect of an educational intervention for Australian social workers on competence in delivering brief cognitive behavioural strategies: A randomised controlled trial

Contextual and theoretical

➢ Primary mental health care and the role for social work

➢ Introducing focused psychological strategies

➢ The basic theory behind cognitive behavioural strategies

➢ The logistics of working under the new primary mental health care initiatives

Clinical skills - brief psychological strategies

➢ Eco-mapping as a social work assessment tool

➢ Structured problem solving

➢ Activity planning

➢ Sleep wake cycle

➢ Slow breathing

➢ Using a cognitive behavioural therapy worksheet in practice