mental health… Don’t judge 6 Jan 2020 Don't judge people with mental disorders for behaving like people with mental disorders! https://youtu.be/OpDqEB2VlD8
mental health… The tripartite model of recovery 5 Jan 2020 Are you hanging on to a limited view of recovery when in truth life is fine? Don't limit your self-concept unnecessarily. Mental health encompasses far more than merely symptom management.…
mental health… Taking up the slack 2 Jan 2020 Saffron Cordery is the deputy chief executive of NHS Providers, the membership organisation for NHS hospitals, mental health, community and ambulance services. These guys really do know what they’re talking…
Alternative therapy… Glastonbury: Alternative therapy central… but is it real? 21 Jun 2019 I’m fed up of coming across people, often with serious psychiatric or medical conditions who stop taking their evidence-based, imperfect but at least understood medications in favour of misunderstood, useless…
evolution… Is anxiety a choice? 2 Feb 201931 Jan 2019 Is anxiety a choice? Is an anxiety disorder a choice? Can a person choose not to be anxious? Last night I had an interesting conversation with a stranger in the…
challenging behaviour… Challenging behaviour: Motivation and pleasure 30 Jan 201927 Jan 2019 Most people are surprised to learn that they maintain (and often actually create) the problems they face. Often people will work hard to resist this idea and that can be…
Courses… After the mental capacity assessment 28 Jan 201927 Jan 2019 Assessing mental capacity is one thing but what happens next? What must we do once we know that a person lacks the mental capacity to make this particular decision at…
Carers in mind… Self-harm parents 6 Jan 201929 Dec 2018 It's unfair and inaccurate to pretend that all parents of people who harm themselves are to blame. There are parents who treat their children in horrendous ways and who really…
challenging behaviour… It’s only behavioural! 30 Dec 201829 Dec 2018 Everything humans do is behavioural. There's no justification for using the label to hide our own inadequacies or laziness. https://youtu.be/zB8PAk21vc0
challenging behaviour… I don’t care: Belligerence and behavioural boundaries 17 Dec 2018 Sometimes the only way to protect the therapeutic relationship is temporarily to behave as though you have no concern whatsoever for the other person's point of view. This seems counter-intuitive and…
