mental health… Self harm interactive webinar 14 Mar 202114 Mar 2021 Wednesday March 24th 2021 7pm Self-harm can be confusing and bewildering for both staff and service-users. Ideas about 'manipulation' or a 'cry for help' do little or nothing to help…
mental health… Beware the saviour fantasy 18 Feb 202118 Feb 2021 Newcomers to care, especially mental health care often believe that they not only can but actually will ‘save the world’. They genuinely expect that their winning personality, supported only by…
Courses… The ‘family tree’ of mental health exercise 11 Dec 201712 Apr 2018 This is a simple exercise intended to be completed either individually or preferably by a group (up to around 16 people) in discussion. The idea is to help care workers…
mental health… Self harm part 3: Life’s just one big sweetshop 19 Sep 20176 Nov 2017 In part 3 of the series we consider how best to work with people who harm themselves. We know it's not about us. We know it's a coping strategy that…
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…
challenging behaviour… Privileged glimpses 21: Consequences, learned behaviour and boundaries 28 Apr 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…
challenging behaviour… Privileged glimpses 19: Behaviours that harm other people 21 Apr 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…
challenging behaviour… Privileged glimpses 18: Behaviours that harm the individual 16 Apr 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…
challenging behaviour… Privileged glimpses 17: Challenging behaviour means … 14 Apr 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…
