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• With or Without Your Consent

  Last week was quite a difficult one for me, work-wise. I’ve already mentioned a couple of the Mental Health Act Assessments I did a few days ago. There was another one yesterday and it was the most troubling I have been party to. At the moment,... Posted Jun 21 2008, 05:14 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social work, work, ASW, mental health, uk, assessment, health, hospital, sectioning, psychiatric hospital, approved social work, mental health act assessment

• On Assessments

  This week I completed two Mental Health Act Assessments (not on my own, of course, I’m still not warranted!). So I probably don’t need to elaborate on the fact that it’s been quite busy. Just a few aspects as I saw them. I spoke to one... Posted Jun 19 2008, 04:01 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social care, social work, work, ASW, mental health, uk, assessment, mental health act, hospital, sectioning

• Who’d be a Social Worker?

  Yesterday, I met a old friend for lunch. She is also a social worker - in fact, she was the person who persuaded me to do the MA in the first place. We don’t meet as often as we probably should (work, distance, children) but it’s always a... Posted Jun 02 2008, 06:52 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social care, social work, work, ASW, mental health, uk, health, world, career choice, career day, care ambassador

• Indulgence

  A completely self-serving and indulgent post if I can be forgiven, so I’ll keep it brief! It’s Sunday, it’s a holiday weekend and I’m fairly busy but I did get a letter yesterday from the university confirming that the portfolio... Posted May 25 2008, 07:05 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social work, work, ASW, training, uk, me, mental health social work

• Gaining Approval

  In order to become an Approved Social Worker (ASW) the requirements are as follows - undertake a course of sixty days training (a mixture of lectures, seminars and supervised practice in a placement setting ) -apply for a warrant (after some more supervised... Posted May 22 2008, 06:07 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social work, work, ASW, training, mental health, warrants, assessment, mental health profession, being an asw

• Living in DoLs houses

  Just when I thought I was pretty hot on all the acronyms that are flung around the workplace, I have been hit with a few more. It came as a result of a conversation with one of the managers (there are whole swathes of different levels of managers in the... Posted May 16 2008, 06:24 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social care, social work, older people, work, ASW, capacity, learning disability, long-term care, human rights, deprivation of liberty, bournewood, european court of human rights

• The Last of the (New) ASWs…

  I finished my portfolio for my ASW course yesterday. It’s the last time the ASW course will run because the next lot in the autumn will be doing the AMHP training. And it got me thinking a little bit… Naturally we spoke a little about the... Posted Apr 30 2008, 04:46 PM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social work, work, ASW, mental health

• The curse is better than the cure

  One of the things that was emphasised strongly on the course, is that someone should never be sectioned because they ‘refused to take medication’. That just isn’t a reason. It seemed to be almost natural to comment on that in the assessment... Posted Apr 22 2008, 09:31 PM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: work, medication, side-effects, ASW

• And on and on..

  Moving into the final stretch now and I’m wavering between feeling fairly confident and feeling completely incapable of finishing off the work. I think I’ve got things in hand more or less - but then I worry about the pieces that I haven’t... Posted Apr 18 2008, 09:11 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: work, ASW, training, asw course, study

• To the end..

  Yesterday was the last day of the ASW course - well, the last ‘official’ day. It was funny but I spoke more to some of the people and on a more ‘real’ level than I had during the last few months! Anyway, the Presentation went OK... Posted Apr 17 2008, 07:48 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: work, ASW