Mad World: September 2009 Archives

Cycling into psychosis

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on September 30, 2009 3:23 PM | No Comments

I've been getting more into cycling recently - but fortunately I've never pushed it as far as this man.

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Notts social worker gets Hollywood treatment

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on September 30, 2009 2:50 PM | No Comments

I am always more than eager to bring you tales of social work portrayed on the silver screen. I like to think these Hollywood stories add a sprinkling of glamour to my otherwise rather humdrum postings.

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Gordon Brown and the pill question taboo

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on September 29, 2009 1:09 PM | No Comments

I'm not sure what I think about the whole Gordon Brown - Andrew Marr pill question debate. You can check out the video below, in which Marr asks Brown whether he uses pills to help him "get through".

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DLA will stay, says Hope

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on September 28, 2009 4:50 PM | No Comments

That's what Disability Now are reporting.

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Cafcass and weak beer

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on September 28, 2009 4:34 PM | 2 Comments

Family court body Cafcass has announced job cuts as it looks to balance its budgets following a surge of cases in the wake of Baby Peter.

As if that wasn't bad enough, Cafcass has now been compared to weak beer by social work blogger Wall.

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If you need to work better, try working less - it applies to social work too

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on September 25, 2009 2:32 PM | No Comments

This is the sage advice proffered in the Wall Street Journal, based on some new research. And it seems particularly relevant to those who work in social care, who often work long hours.

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Mental health anti-stigma video

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on September 25, 2009 12:22 PM | No Comments

Anti-stigma campaign Shift has produced a range of video featuring people with mental health problems talking about their experiences and particularly how other people react to them.

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Schizophrenia comic book

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on September 24, 2009 5:04 PM | No Comments

Check out this excerpt from a really interesting-looking UK comic book about schizophrenia.

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How to argue: new guide for recession-hit couples

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on September 23, 2009 3:48 PM | No Comments

When I discovered that relationship advice website TheCoupleConnection.net had produced a guide to having better arguments, I was quite excited.

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Mental health ward hierarchy

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on September 23, 2009 3:35 PM | No Comments

There's an entertaining post over on Mental Nurse about how you can tell the importance of particular staff types in a mental health ward.

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Social worker feared for life in knife attack

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on September 22, 2009 10:19 AM | No Comments

More tales of the dangers facing social workers in the North Wales Daily Post.

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Any Jungians out there?

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on September 21, 2009 2:22 PM | No Comments

If so, you'll be interested to read a piece in the New York Times about his Red Book.

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Gordon Brown on antidepressants? So what?

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on September 18, 2009 3:05 PM | 2 Comments

The Progress website reports on rumours that Gordon Brown is taking antidepressants and associated claims that this would somehow undermine his leadership.

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PCTs, unconditional love and Kafka

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on September 17, 2009 3:46 PM | No Comments

Ok, serious story first - HSJ reports that PCTs need to improve their performance on providing mental health care for young people with learning difficulties.

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Social worker stabbed in the eye with pen

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on September 17, 2009 2:49 PM | No Comments

Horrible story in This Is Local London.

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Labour discusses adoption

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on September 15, 2009 12:11 PM | 1 Comment

There's an interesting debate going on at the LabourList blog about Martin Narey's comments on adoption.

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Be the difference - second social work recruitment campaign

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on September 14, 2009 10:16 AM | 11 Comments

You wait twenty years for a social work recruitment campaign, then two come along at once.

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Help Give Them A Voice: Final Cut

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on September 10, 2009 11:54 AM | No Comments

You can't possibly feature any more Help Give Them A Voice videos on this blog can you, someone is possibly asking.

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Should the government take more responsibility for social work's problems?

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on September 8, 2009 4:19 PM | 1 Comment

There's an interesting opinion piece on Spiked by Ken McLaughlin in which he argues that the new Give Them A Voice social work recruitment campaign and the government's attempts to portray social work in a more positive light "betrays a disdainful assumption that it is the general public who are the problem" and it is simply their attitudes which must be changed.

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Mindfulness conference in London

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on September 8, 2009 12:27 PM | No Comments

I've been taking more than a passing interest in the emerging field of mindfulness and mental health here on Mad World, so I'm pleased to see that there is mindfulness conference taking place in London in November.

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Help Give Them A Voice: Behind the scenes

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on September 7, 2009 3:36 PM | No Comments

Just got back from a week off and what better way to mark my return than another video from the government's Help Give Them A Voice social work recruitment campaign.

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September 2009 Archives