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Being detained – What happens next?
August 29, 2015
Recently, I read a news article about new guidelines regarding disclosure to employers about being detained under the Mental Health Act. This is one of the many potential issues that…
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Hearing Voices – Finding out about the experience
August 22, 2015
Research studies have shown that more than 4% of the population have the experience of hearing voices that others cannot hear. It can be very distressing, can be as a…
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Becoming autism aware
August 15, 2015
The new Code of Practice to the Mental Health Act 1983 includes a very useful chapter (Chapter 20) on autism and identifies some areas of good practice for providers of…
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Supervision: Getting into groups
August 7, 2015
I recently wrote a blog post about the functions of supervision in the context of one-to-one sessions between worker and supervisor. Individual supervision is important and the regulations accompanying the…
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Protecting people in our care
August 3, 2015
A recent news story about allegations of ill-treatment by a worker in a Cumbrian care home has prompted me to write about the protection that the law offers vulnerable adults…
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Mental health services: Getting help, right now
July 26, 2015
A new survey from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) called ‘Right here, right now’ has revealed an unhelpful response from some health professionals when dealing with people in a mental…
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From DoLS to providing Protective Care
July 20, 2015
The journey to get to where we are on the operation of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (or DoLS) is a long and tortuous one. New proposals released by the…
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Advanced decisions: planning ahead
July 14, 2015
There’s a chapter in the new Mental Health Act Code of Practice on ‘wishes expressed in advance’, which I think makes for useful discussion in relation to care planning for…
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