The care that we give

Sally often talked about the responsibility we had to improve practice by teaching only the best current principles to students and other colleagues

Quick guides: 3 types of legal status

The second of my single page ‘quick guides’ looks at the 3 types of legal status, when to intervene or to stand back and how to make sense of people’s differing levels of capacity.

Unashamedly stealing other peoples’ ideas

I plan to create relatively brief ‘quick guide’ summaries of mental health and social care principles that can either be used for quick online reference or posted in staff rooms and offices

Interview with Project Prevention’s first UK client

I suppose it is less emotional effort to blame, condemn and find a scapegoat rather than to try and understand and help fix the problem.

Another blog award nomination

Project Prevention is the American eugenicist organisation that wants to bribe vulnerable people to accept sterilisation. In UK and USA they target drug addicts. In Haiti they want to sterilise people because they’re ‘too poor’ to have children and in Africa they’re targetting women who are HIV+.

Special offer from The Care Guy

If you book training from The Care Guy to be delivered before March 31st 2012 you’ll get it at a full 20% discount.

The ‘Star Trek model’ of decision-making in care settings

The ‘Star Trek’ model of decision-making exposes the myth of the ‘team decision’ in health and social care

New training courses for dementia care workers

three new dementia training courses: Dementia awareness, The environment of dementia & Challenging behaviour in dementia

Suicide assessment vs prejudice about self harm

The post didn’t focus exclusively on deliberate self harm as a precursor to suicide. Rather it talks about the range of significant factors that should be taken into consideration. deliberate self harm is one of those factors but that’s all it is – a factor.

Short video explanation of the Bournewood ‘deprivation of liberty’ case

Short video explanation of the Bournewood ‘deprivation of liberty’ case

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