Speakers: Professor Nicola Kayes & Diarmuid Denneny
An evening to reflect on goal setting. Diarmuid Denneny will offer us the opportunity to revisit the origins of the SMART model and Professor Nicola Kayes will present and discuss her own research around the MAP goal model, as a suitable approach when working with people with chronic pain.
Nicola Kayes is Professor of Rehabilitation, Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences and Co-Director of the Centre for Person Centred Research (https://cpcr.aut.ac.nz/) at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. With a background in health psychology, Professor Kayes specific research expertise draws insights from the intersection between health psychology, disability, and rehabilitation – critically exploring how what we know about how people think, feel, behave, and respond in the context of injury and illness can inform rehabilitation structures and practices to optimise outcome. Her recent research has focused on person-centred rehabilitation, therapeutic relationship and engagement, peer support, and ways of working which build psychosocial resources for recovery and adaptation.