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The Guide is now an EbookPosted on 2:49pm Friday 6th Jul 2012 Listed under: Anxiety, Challenging behaviour, Dementia, Depression, Mental health, Personality disorder, Psychology, Psychosis, Support work, The guide
Then nip on over to the Kindle store and get your copy of The Mental Health Workers' Guide in handy Ebook format. The ebook is the completed version of the developing blog series. It covers:
What’s a mental health worker worth? The problem of specialisation Three models of mental health and disorder The biological (medical) model The social model Merging the two (stress and vulnerability) The importance of physiology The meaning of psychiatric diagnoses Anxiety The psychology of anxiety Depression The psychology of depression Psychosis (introduction) Hallucinations Delusions part 1 Delusions part 2 Thought disorders The dementias Types of dementia – Alzheimer’s Types of dementia – Vascular Types of dementia – Lewy Body Types of dementia – Parkinson’s Types of dementia – Korsakoff’s Types of dementia – Fronto-temporal Types of dementia – Mixed Orientation and memory Delirium The CAM scale Working with the limbic system Personality disorder High Expressed Emotion Sympathy is not usually helpful More on the Stress & Vulnerability model of mental health and disorder The invalidating environment The Self-fulfilling prophecy The meaning of recovery in mental health The three types of recovery Duty of care: A slug in a bottle ‘Hanged if you do, hanged if you don’t’ – a duty of care myth There is no ‘us and them’ People are just people Coping skills develop slowly Lapse is different from relapse Don’t expect your service user to perform perfectly. The word ‘support’ is meaningless in and of itself “It’s just behavioural” (A workers’ excuse for lazy thinking) Challenging behaviour means…. Behaviours that harm the individual Behaviours that harm other people Do we need help? Consequence, learned behaviour and the need for boundaries Maintaining the problem The whole team approach Firm Boundaries No ‘Pedestals’ And Staff Safety Effective, Consistent Care ‘Corporate’ Identity – “You’re All The Same.” Expectations Self Harm Self-harm as a response to trauma Responding to a person who harms themselves Individual v Organisational risk (Risk-free is impossible. Manageable risk is the way to go) Don’t flap (more haste – less speed) The saviour fantasy You’re probably not an emergency service – don’t try to behave like one Unhelpful thinking Ignoring the positive Exaggerating the negative Overgeneralisation Catastrophisation Arbitrary inference Determinism Selective abstraction Global thinking Dichotomous thinking Magical thinking (the Wizard did it) Personalisation Socratic dialogue and ‘the razors’. The sticks we use to beat ourselves Who put us in charge? Final words |
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