THE ESSENCE OF SOCIAL CLIMATE

Event Notes:

It has long been known that social climate, otherwise known as the psychosocial environment or therapeutic
milieu, is central in determining positive outcomes for patients across a range of service lines, including
those cared for in neurorehabilitation services.

This webinar will focus on the concept of social climate and its importance from both a clinical and
operational perspective. A review of the empirical literature will be presented with consideration as to
how providing positive therapeutic environments can influence patient behaviour and outcomes as well
as key organisational factors, such as staff wellbeing and retention.

Assessment strategies, as a means of benchmarking services, will be discussed, with reference to current
and ongoing research conducted by the authors.

Recommendations for key areas of development that can improve therapeutic environments will be made
and reference will be made to a range of concepts that directly relate to social climate, including team
working, restrictive practice, closed culture and Quality Improvement (QI).

EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES

To ensure attendees can:

• Understand the concept of social climate and its relevance to neurorehabilitation services.
• Be able to reflect on the impact of positive and negative social climates on patient outcomes.
• Understand best practice in the assessment of social climate.
• Be able to consider the ways in which services can seek to improve their therapeutic environments and identify factors that may act as barriers to the development of effective social climates in services.

We hope that you will join us for this specialist webinar with Paul Mooney & Professor Nick Alderman who
will be available after the presentation to answer your questions.

Can’t make it? No worries. You can access this training as an online resource package which will include
the recorded sessions & PDF copies of all the slides by using the book now.

The benefits of this course being available after the event are:

• Complete the training in your own time
• Personalised CPD certificate for 2 points
• Unlimited time to access the resource
• Resources remain in your account forever to refer back to