Farewell Farmer George

George III made it just a little more difficult to sweep mental disorder under the carpet. I wonder what legacy the next ‘mad monarch’ might leave.

Understanding the Mental Capacity Act

If you’re at all uncertain about assessing capacity, deciding upon best interests or how the MCA fits with other layers of Safeguarding legislation then this is the course for you.

Dealing with deliberate self-harm

Working with people who hurt themselves can be a confusing and bewildering experience. It is often extremely frustrating and distressing for the staff who may well be at a loss to understand why their resident keeps on injuring themselves. Traditional views about ‘manipulation’ or a ‘cry for help’ may bring some limited sense of explanation [...]

Visit The Care Guy website

If you like what you see on the Caretraining blog have a look at The Care Guy website as well.

Dementia care training updates

Over the next few weeks The Care Guy will be updating several ‘off the peg’ dementia care courses. This will include an overhaul of training programmes on ‘Dementia awareness’, ‘Person-centred dementia care’, ‘Communication in dementia care’, ‘Challenging behaviour in dementia’ & ‘The environment of dementia’. If you have any particular needs around dementia care training [...]

AMHP research on stress & burnout

This research isn’t anything to do with me but I thought I’d promote it anyway. Below is the outline ‘from the horse’s mouth’. ”Approved Mental Health Professionals practising in England needed to complete a survey about stress and burnout. The survey aims to determine whether there is a difference in experiences of stress and burnout [...]

Expressions 24: Validation – don’t recreate the invalidating environment

The child who feels angry and manages to control their aggression is praised for his control, not criticised for his anger

My new website: The Care Guy

Meet ‘The care guy’ http://www.thecareguy.com I’ve spent the last couple of days working on this – I’m not exactly an expert when it comes to websites so everything took me twice as long as it should but I’m getting there. Have a look and let me know what you think. Clearly the point of this [...]

Expressions 23: Therapeutic optimism

We need to believe in the possibility of recovery for our relatives or we won’t work toward it – and neither will they.

Putting stuff right

I’ve cast a critical eye over the first 12 instalments of the guide and they have definitely been found wanting.