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    • Advanced Mental capacity Act (2005)
    • Coping with challenging behaviour (inc hostility and aggression)
    • Dual diagnosis (mental disorder & substance misuse)
    • Duty of care training
    • Introducing the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)
    • Introduction to mental disorder
    • Introduction to schizophrenia and psychosis
    • Introduction to the Mental Capacity Act 2005
    • Lone working & aggression
    • Positive risk management
    • Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults
    • Schizophrenia for support workers
    • Self harm
    • Supervision & Appraisal Skills
    • Support planning
    • The picture on the box: Making sense of mental health
    • Understanding anxiety
    • Understanding depression
    • Understanding personality disorder
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Category: safeguarding

duty of care…

Webinar/tutorial: Hanged if you do – Hanged if you don’t

19 Feb 202119 Feb 2021
A 90 minute online webinar, Wednesday 24th February 7pm - 8:30pm Joining fee £10:00 One of the biggest headaches for health and social care workers is how to make sense…
mental health…

Beware the saviour fantasy

18 Feb 202118 Feb 2021
Newcomers to care, especially mental health care often believe that they not only can but actually will ‘save the world’. They genuinely expect that their winning personality, supported only by…
duty of care…

The legal profession is failing people with mental health issues when accused of crime – and this must change

8 Dec 2020
By Caroline Spencer-Boulton, NALP Licenced Paralegal, 24:7 Criminal Defence There has never been a better time for the legal profession to ask itself if it properly serving clients with mental…
duty of care…

Duty of care isn’t so complicated

8 Jan 2020
Don't be too scared by 'Duty of care'. It's much easier to understand than you might think. https://youtu.be/hkunn-K1z2o
evolution…

Hard wired 15: The unthinking mental module

15 Jul 201913 Jul 2019
It’s easy to understand how humans and other species evolved physical characteristics as a result of adaptation and natural selection. Helpful variations confer their advantages down through the generations whilst…
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…
duty of care…

MCA: Advance decision to refuse treatment

24 Feb 2019
On October 25th 2007 22 year old EG gave birth to twins at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. A few hours later she was dead because she refused to accept a…
challenging behaviour…

Challenging behaviour: Validating opinions and beliefs

31 Jan 201928 Jan 2019
When dealing with people whose behaviours are challenging it's important to acknowledge that those behaviours may well be based upon some very deep-seated beliefs. Whilst we don't need to agree…
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…
law…

What is mental capacity?

4 Jan 201929 Dec 2018
Mental capacity is the ability to make your own decisions. It's assessed using a straightforward two-part test which is much easier to deal with than most people think: Part 1:…

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