Carers in mind… Carers in mind: Introduction 11 Jun 201811 Jun 2018 Those of us who work in mental health services, be that for the NHS or in social care settings receive both payment and training for our efforts. However, there's an…
Courses… The ‘family tree’ of mental health exercise 11 Dec 201712 Apr 2018 This is a simple exercise intended to be completed either individually or preferably by a group (up to around 16 people) in discussion. The idea is to help care workers…
challenging behaviour… Personality disorder and compassion 4 Dec 201712 Apr 2018 Sometimes a single day's training makes all the difference. You can access such a training day here. Watch a video on Personality Disorder below https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTxwLpm6j-4 Complete the contact form below…
challenging behaviour… Mental health training – a short sample 16 Nov 201712 Apr 2018 This abridged, edited audio (& video slideshow) is taken from the introductory session of a 2012 mental health training day in Glasgow. Although not all of the session is included…
Courses… Psychosis 4: Thought disorder 7 Nov 2017 The third in the ‘big 3’ trilogy of psychotic symptoms is, for many people, the most difficult to understand. Unlike delusions which are all about ‘what’ we think, thought disorders…
Courses… Psychosis 2: Delusions, illusions and hallucinations 6 Nov 2017 Part 2 of the psychosis mini-series looks at delusions (AKA 'Fixed, false beliefs - not amenable to reason'). Delusions are more than just vague ideas - they're the things people…
Courses… Introducing the cognitive model 12 Oct 20176 Nov 2017 Excuse the voice - I had a headcold when I made this. Hopefully it's still clear enough. This video outlines the basic idea behind the cognitive model and why, far…
challenging behaviour… Social and mental health care training 15 Feb 201729 Apr 2017 I've been getting a lot of new inquiries lately, which is wonderful. It seems that training budgets are becoming available to the small specialist trainers again without organisations having to…
Courses… Introduction to Self Injury 28 Jan 201728 Jan 2017 This 1 day Introduction to self injury training course is only a basic introduction to the topic. It's intended for social care workers who may or may not have any prior experience…
Courses… Mental health care needn’t be complicated 4 May 2016 I used to think that mental health care would be really complicated. So I looked for complicated theories to underpin everything I did. For many years I studied and tried…
