mental health… Labelling, recovery and therapeutic optimism 20 Feb 201812 Apr 2018 Back in 1963, researcher David L. Rosenhan masterminded an elaborate hoax. It was a scam designed to study the effects of labelling upon clinical practice and to determine whether psychiatric…
duty of care… Schizophrenia, social care and the tripartite recovery model 7 Feb 201812 Apr 2018 What is schizophrenia? How do reasonable attempts to cope with symptoms like voice-hearing come to be thought of as symptoms of illness in themselves? Why is it so easy to…
mental health… Therapeutic risk-taking 12 Dec 201712 Apr 2018 It is possible to assist people with social care needs (complex or otherwise) to develop the quality of their lives and to enhance their coping strategies. In large part this…
mental health… What’s it like to hear voices? 16 Jul 20176 Nov 2017 What's it like to hear voices? Early on when I first started trying to make videos I made a very poor version of this. That video is no longer available…
mental health… A nasty little rash 8 May 20176 Nov 2017 I almost didn’t make this video. In truth, I almost didn’t make any video at all today – or tomorrow – or the next day – or however long it…
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… The social care recovery model 17 Oct 201617 Oct 2016 I'm a great believer in process. That doesn't mean pigeon-holing the people we work with. It means having a process, a system that's clear enough to keep us on track…
mental health The fight continues 16 Oct 20166 Nov 2017 I've neglected my blog over the past few weeks and months. It's easy to be distracted by other things as life's hectic pace continues unabated. But this week I've seen…
mental health… 3 Models of mental health and disorder 18 Sep 20166 Nov 2017 The biological (medical) model The medical (biological) model is the dominant view of mental disorder in Western society. The basic idea is that mental disorders are rooted in physical problems…
