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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
    • Understanding anxiety
    • Understanding depression
    • Understanding personality disorder
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duty of care…

MCA: Who decides?

31 Dec 201829 Dec 2018
When assessing an individual’s mental capacity it is important that we confine ourselves to assessing that person’s ability to make this particular decision (or type of decision) at this time.…
challenging behaviour…

Challenging behaviour: Do we need help?

8 Jul 20188 Jul 2018
This is the latest video in the 'Challenging behaviour' series/playlist. https://youtu.be/gTYIVGbDSm8
duty of care…

A duty of care myth

8 Apr 201815 May 2018
Hanged if you do... hanged if you don't! Many people are confused about their duty of care. They think they're somehow responsible for the actions of other people. This leads…
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…
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…
mental health…

How can a dead Greek and a medieval monk help care workers?

5 May 2016
Socrates was an ancient Greek philosopher. He used questions to help people reach new insights or knowledge. Each question moved them a little closer to solving their problems. The technique…
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…
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Duty of care: A slug in a bottle

12 Oct 201526 Jun 2018
If there’s one thing that unites almost everyone concerned with health and social care services it’s the fear of being sued. Otherwise rational and courageous workers have been reduced to…
training

Course design 9: Schema (build on what they know)

18 Aug 20152 May 2016
According to Wikipedia a schema can be described as… An organized pattern of thought or behavior. A structured cluster of pre-conceived ideas. A mental structure that represents some aspect of…
mental health…

Privileged glimpses 24: The clinician’s illusion

12 May 20152 May 2016
This series of blog posts first appeared a few years ago on a now defunct blog called ‘Care Training’. It was inspired by the training maxim of ‘making the unconscious…

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