Don’t worry – it’s not as bad as all that!
What’s the difference between a problem and a fact?
It’s important to be assertive in mental health care but please don’t confuse that with aggression. Your needs as a clinician or care provider are not the only ones that matter.
Without therapeutic optimism we might as well all pack up and go home!
The best way to fail at making yourself feel better!
Do you work in mental health care? Do you have separate mugs, cups and other crockery for staff at work?
Have you ever stopped to consider what that says about you and about your practice?
Stop it. Stop it now!
If you need help from medical, nursing or other, related professionals it can be useful to know how to organise your information. Ideally you shouldn’t need to but the truth is that often you will. Here’s how to do it…
What do we mean by ‘recovery’ in mental health care?
Actually it’s much the same as in physical health care.
Far too many people who really ought to know better think that mental health workers can’t intervene if a suicidal person “has capacity”.
THIS IS NONSENSE!
There are several different kinds of dementia. All are devastating and, at least at present, none are curable.