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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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mental health…

Online mental health and/or social care training

7 Dec 20207 Dec 2020
I've always thought of myself as a face to face, engage with a live cohort/audience sort of trainer/speaker until… I asked yesterday for volunteers to do tutorials with as a…
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
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…
training…

A change of pace

31 Dec 201931 Dec 2019
I haven't posted here for a while. I've been busy with other things but now I'm back and I'll be making a few changes. It's a new direction... a new…
evolution…

Hard-wired 17a: Coincidence and irrational humanity

22 Jul 201917 Jul 2019
In terms of the psychological spandrels we discussed earlier, the tendency to make 'false positive' (type 1) errors is an evolved characteristic. Paranoia, pattern-seeking and agency-detection may well be the…
evolution…

Hard-wired 17: Bias and the evolutionary ‘spandrel’

19 Jul 201915 Jul 2019
In this video we’ll consider three of the most widespread (and misleading) of our evolved mental modules. We’ll look at ‘selective abstraction‘, ‘arbitrary inference’ and ‘confirmation bias’. Each of these…
evolution…

Hardwired 16: Pattern recognition

16 Jul 201913 Jul 2019
It’s not hard to see why this obsession with patterns prevailed in the ancestral environment. The early hunter-gatherer who learned to recognise the association between plants and water would have…
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…

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