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    • Dual diagnosis (mental disorder & substance misuse)
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    • 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
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    • The picture on the box: Making sense of mental health
    • Understanding anxiety
    • Understanding depression
    • Understanding personality disorder
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psychology…

Stoicism: Anticipating misfortune

14 Jul 201913 Jul 2019
"Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave." (Seneca)…
psychology…

Stoicism: The eternal now

13 Jul 2019
In a previous post (Irvine’s summary) I made the point that… “People generally confuse the things they can control with the things they cannot. The result is frustration and wasted…
Stoicism for mental health…

Stoicism: No surprises!

8 Jul 2019
“Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, devious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance…
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…
evolution…

Today is ‘Darwin Day’

12 Feb 201912 Feb 2019
160 years ago this year Charles Darwin published his ground-breaking, paradigm shattering volume ‘on the origin of species by means of natural selection’. 210 years ago today on February 12th,…
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…
evolution…

Hard-wired 14: Why Freud was almost right

1 Feb 201928 Jan 2019
Although not a fan of Darwin's theory of evolution by means of natural selection (he was more influenced by the earlier, Lamarckian evolutionary theory), Sigmund Freud was very nearly right…
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…
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…

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