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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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Tag: learning

psychology…

Stoic joy

5 Jan 201929 Dec 2018
Stoicism isn't only an antidote to anger and emotional distress. It's a recipe for genuine joy - the kind of joy and wonder that comes from endless discovery and the…
mental health…

Stoicism for mental health 2: What can we control?

30 Apr 201823 May 2018
Today we consider the very first principle of Stoicism as defined by Epictetus in his handbook, The Enchiridion. What can we control and what can't we control? This means understanding…
mental health…

Stoicism for mental health 1: Introduction

29 Apr 201816 May 2018
Stoic philosophy isn't the dry, humourless approach to life that many think it is. 'Stoic joy' comes from the ability to manage and control our emotions, the ability to choose…
mental health…

Psychosis 1: Hallucinations and society

30 Oct 20176 Nov 2017
This is the first of a mini series on psychosis. Here we introduce psychosis in general before talking about hallucinations (the 1st of the 'big 3' psychotic symptoms) and how…
mental health…

Depression part 1

6 Aug 20176 Nov 2017
If anxiety is a call to action that is there to help us solve a problem (how to be safe) depression is the opposite. Depression is a form of physiological…
duty of care…

Don’t blame people with mental disorders…

8 Apr 20176 Nov 2017
"Don't blame people with mental disorders for behaving like people with mental disorders" Too often mental health workers expect far more from their service-users than they are currently able to…
mental health…

Mental health recovery: A care workers’ guide to the stress and vulnerability model

5 Apr 20176 Nov 2017
If you enjoyed this tutorial please subscribe to my youtube channel. Lots more videos on mental health and social care to come. You can subscribe to the website and Facebook…
mental health…

Mental disorders made simple for students and others

3 Apr 20176 Nov 2017
I often get to take student mental health nurses around in my day to day practice. It's part of their training to spend time 'in the field' so to speak…
training

Course design 10: Learning styles

20 Aug 20152 May 2016
Different people learn and process information in different ways. One way to think about these differences is to imagine that you were training a group of people who spoke different…

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