Caregiver Essentials

Caregiver Essentials: How to be a SLICK Caregiver

Are you a SLICK caregiver?

SLICK: to make smooth; to make smart, neat etc.; adept (highly skilled, an expert); clever

Let’s break it down even further…
Strengths
Limitations
Information
Comforts
Kind

Your strengths might be that you are creative, patient, financially savvy, organized, medically knowledgeable, good at problem solving…

Your limitations might be that you are NOT creative, NOT particularly patient, NOT financially savvy, NOT organized, NOT medically knowledgeable, NOT good at problem solving…

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Things to know

“Every Reasonable Effort” Agreement

Clients can expect therapists to make their best effort to be helpful, to help them gain insight and learn new skills, and to teach them some of the behavioral tools they need to deal more effectively with their current living situations. Therapists should make it clear that they cannot save the clients, cannot solve the clients’ problems and cannot keep the clients from engaging in harmful behavior. Clients have to solve their own life problems.
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Things to know

What is Mindfulness?

What is Mindfulness?

In a nutshell, it can be described as the awareness that arises by paying attention, in the present moment, and in a non-judgmental way.

Mindfulness is NOT…
…the idea that we should never experience anxiety. Anxiety can serve as an important and useful signal from the body telling us that something in our life needs to change.

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