The Mental Health Workers Guide
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My project for 2012 is a series of video presentations outlining many of the principles of social care work for people with mental health difficulties. This is because I feel very strongly that workers in social care often find themselves effectively abandoned by over-stretched statutory services who are unable to provide the necessary input to help them fulfil their roles properly.
This is a great shame because many of the unsung mental health workers I come across are capable of extremely sophisticated work if only they had the necessary support. This series is my attempt to redress the balance a little and ‘fill the gap’.
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The project will be developed in instalments (roughly once a week) and is expected to take the whole of 2012 to complete. As each section is completed the listing below will become a link to the presentation itself. The different instalments will be:
- Introduction: What’s a support worker worth podcast and movie
- The biological (medical), social, and stress & vulnerability models podcast and movie
- The importance of physiology podcast and movie
- The meaning of psychiatric diagnoses podcast and movie
- Anxiety podcast and movie
- The psychology of anxiety podcast and movie
- Depression podcast and movie
- The psychology of depression podcast and movie
- Psychosis (Hallucinations) podcast and movie
- Psychosis (Delusions part 1) podcast and movie
- Psychosis (Delusions part 2) podcast and movie
- Psychosis (Thought disorders) podcast and movie
- The dementias podcast and movie
- Orientation and memory podcast and movie
- Delirium podcast and movie
- Working with the limbic system podcast and movie
- Personality disorder podcast and movie
- High Expressed Emotion (HEE) part 1 podcast and movie
- High Expressed Emotion (HEE) part 2 podcast and movie
- Sympathy is not usually helpful podcast and movie
- Stress & vulnerability podcast and movie
- The ‘invalidating environment’ movie and podcast
- Self fulfilling prophecy and therapeutic optimism podcast and movie
- The meaning of recovery podcast and movie
- Duty of care: A slug in a bottle podcast and movie
- Hanged if you do & hanged if you don’t – a duty of care myth podcast and movie
- There is no ‘us and them’ podcast and movie
- People are just people podcast and movie
- Coping skills develop slowly podcast and movie
- Do as I do – model behaviours we want to encourage in others podcast and movie
- Lapse and relapse – two different things podcast and movie
- Don’t expect your service user to perform perfectly. You don’t so why should they? Podcast and movie
- Don’t blame people with disorders for behaving like people with disorders podcast and movie
- The word ‘support’ is meaningless in and of itself podcast and movie
- “It’s just behavioural” – a workers’ excuse for lazy thinking about service users’ needs podcast and movie
- Challenging behaviour means…. podcast and movie
- Different types of challenging behaviour podcast and movie
- Do we need help? Podcast and movie
- Consequence, learned behaviour and the need for boundaries podcast and movie
- If you do the same things you get the same results podcast and movie
- The whole team approach podcast and movie
- Expectations podcast and movie
- Self harm podcast and movie part 1
- Self harm podcast and movie part 2
- Responding to a person who harms themselves podcast and movie
- Don’t blame people with disorders for behaving like people with disorders podcast and movie
- Risk-free is impossible. Manageable risk is the way to go podcast and movie
- Don’t flap podcast and movie
- The saviour fantasy podcast and movie
- You’re probably not an emergency service – don’t try to behave like one podcast and movie
- Unhelpful thinking podcast and movie
- Socratic dialogue and ‘the razors’ podcast and movie
- Selective abstraction (the downward arrow) podcast and movie
- The sticks we use to beat ourselves podcast and movie
- Beat past trauma with new, positive memories podcast and movie
- Who put us in charge? podcast and movie
- Final thoughts podcast and movie
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The guide 41: 'The whole team approach' movie