Confidential clinical supervision groups can be a good forum for social workers to share feelings and can feel safer than traditional management supervision sessions, writes an anonymous social worker. I think people who are sensitive and empathic can make the best social workers, but they are also the most prone to suffer due to the [...]
Last night I appeared on Radio 4′s All in the Mind show to discuss my recent investigation into the number of mental health patients sent out-of-area to private hospitals amid a shortage of psychiatric intensive care unit beds. You can listen to my interview here (it starts about the 14 minute mark). The main points [...]
It’s the event so big that even Sir Alex Fergie of Man Utd had to retire weeks before it in order to make sure he wasn’t forced out of the limelight. Yup, Community Care Live 2013 is happening next week over two days (21st and 22nd May) at the Business Design Centre in Islington, central [...]
This article by a social worker about the impact the increasing pressures placed on her team had on her mental health has provoked quite a response from frontline staff and social care managers. Writing about your own mental health can be an incredibly scary thing. Yet, I always find it amazing – and comforting – [...]
If social work doesn’t confront the realities of the strain frontline staff are under, there’s a real risk we’ll all need the support that we are supposed to be delivering, writes an anonymous social worker. The impact the growing pressures of social work have on our own mental health is something I feel really strong [...]
Telling an employer privately that you’re feeling mentally unwell can be terrifying. Sharing your story publicly is perhaps even scarier. So I’m extremely grateful to one social worker who has agreed to share her experience of seeking support for mental health issues in a guest blog I’ve published today. In any properly resourced profession, the [...]
Social workers should recognise the hurt caused to frontline staff by the type of newspaper headlines faced by police officers on Friday afternoon. A root and branch review of the Met police’s response in a series of cases where mentally ill people had died, or been seriously injured, was damning in its criticism of the [...]
A major study published earlier this year found that Community Treatment Orders are failing to do what policymakers hoped they would – well, at least when it comes to cutting down hospital readmissions for so-called ‘revolving door’ mental health patients. But how are CTOs helping or hindering the people subject to them? Mental health service [...]
Mad World highlights the latest research, policy and debate about all things mental health along with some social work stuff and the odd piece of random nonsense, just to keep you on your toes.
It is written by community editor Andy McNicoll.
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