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Stuart Sorensen
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Posted on 7:14am Wednesday 16th May 2012 This series is reprinted with permission from my friend and fellow mental health nurse Felicity Stockwell. Her complete writings can be found on her website at http://www.felicitystockwell.com/ I’m grateful to Felicity for agreeing to let me publish her work here. Posted on 7:18am Monday 14th May 2012 20 commandments 3: Thou shalt be in time for appointments and ‘phone calls. It will show your client that he matters We are generally very good at excusing ourselves for missing appointments or being delayed by our important work. It’s easy to get wrapped up in our own importance as we flit from client to client, patient to patient or service-user to service-user. These people (we tell ourselves) are needy and could not cope without our interventions. So obviously it’s OK to be late for the next appointment when someone else needs us so badly first. That feels quite nice and it’s an excuse that we can all become far too familiar with if we’re not careful. The only problem is our service-users tend not to see it that way. They usually have a much more reasonable view of our importance, regardless of our self-agrandisement. They know that we’re unable to save the world and that if they lasted for a whole week between visits they can handle another hour or two. That’s not the problem. It’s the implied lack of respect and disregard for our service-users as equals that gets in the way. The client who we kept waiting also knows that the previous client probably didn’t need us very desperately either. So they won’t accept the ‘important mental health worker’ excuse any more than we are happy to accept the ‘important delivery man’ excuse when we’ve been stood up waiting for a parcel to be delivered. Nobody is special – and that includes us. If you want to show your service-user that they matter then you really need to act as though they do. If you make an appointment, keep it. It matters. Based on the work of ‘Margreeth H.’ www.20commandments.blogspot.com
Posted on 6:49am Friday 11th May 2012 Part 18 of The Mental Health Workers' Guide looks at High Expressed emotion (HEE) in mental health care. Don't forget that you can download the podcasts and video clips that accompany this series here. Today’s topic will be High Expressed Emotion (part 1) Posted on 3:11pm Wednesday 9th May 2012 This series is reprinted with permission from my friend and fellow mental health nurse Felicity Stockwell. Her complete writings can be found on her website at http://www.felicitystockwell.com/ I’m grateful to Felicity for agreeing to let me publish her work here. Posted on 10:19pm Monday 7th May 2012 In case you missed it... I recently delivered training on mental health (the basics) to a group of support workers in Glasgow. Not only were these people a joy to work with they were also generous enough to let me record the training and then post the recordings on the internet. Thanks also to Frank, the organisation's training manager for consenting to these recordings 'going public'. . Posted on 7:15am Monday 7th May 2012 20 commandments 2: Thou shalt increase the well-being, opportunities and happiness of your client Once we accept that mental health recovery is possible we realise that this can only be achieved by helping those we work with to develop coping skills and strategies to overcome their problems. The process of development is the same for all of us. It makes no difference whether the individual has mental health difficulties or not. Posted on 7:45am Friday 4th May 2012 Listed under: Mental health, Personality disorder, Psychology, Safeguarding, Support work, The guide Part 17 of The Mental Health Workers' Guide introduces the topic of Personality Disorder. Don't forget that you can download the movie links that accompany the entire series by clicking here. Posted on 7:10am Wednesday 2nd May 2012 This series is reprinted with permission from my friend and fellow mental health nurse Felicity Stockwell. Her complete writings can be found on her website at http://www.felicitystockwell.com/ I’m grateful to Felicity for agreeing to let me publish her work here. |
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