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On Being Shadowed

Last week, I had the pleasure of having a second year social work student shadow me as I worked. She was a student in a voluntary agency that I had come across because she had been doing some work with … Continue reading → Read More...

Published 22 Mar 2011 6:46 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, work, mental health, mental health act assessment, approved mental health professional, personal, AMHP, Student, mental health assessment, shadowing a social worker, student placement
Rising Admission Rates

Yesterday, via Twitter, I was alerted to the publication of the ‘Mental Health Bulletin – Fourth Report from Mental Health Minimum Dataset (MHMD) returns 2010’. I know it’s a bit of a mouthful but briefly, it means statistics about admission, …...

Published 12 Jan 2011 6:06 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, older people, work, ASW, mental health, MCA, discrimination, old age, politics, elderly, health, mental health act assessment, Mental disorder, England, personal, AMHP, Best Interests Assessor, mental health act 2007, mental health statistics
A Gentle Man

I had arranged an assessment on the ward this week. I was assessing a man I had known for a few months in my capacity as his care co-ordinator. He has been on the ward under Section 2 of the Mental Health Act (for assessment – up to 28 days) for a few...

Published 7 Aug 2009 6:54 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, older people, work, ASW, mental health, old age, elderly, health, hospital, sectioning, psychiatric hospital, mental health act assessment, social worker, section 2, ward, AMHP, section 3, to section, compulsory detention in hospital
Thinking forward

I realise that I might have been a bit more stressed than usual of late. This is due to a combination of factors. It has been a long time since I’ve had any kind of break from work – probably more than is usually the case. I have also had a rush of work...

Published 9 Jun 2009 6:40 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, work, mental health, health, stress, mental health act assessment, approved mental health professional, personal
A Course

Last week I went on a training course. As an AMHP I am obliged to complete 3 (I think!) training days every year which specifically relate to my role as an Approved Mental Health Professional in order to maintain my warrant. So it was that last week there...

Published 19 May 2009 7:49 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, work, ASW, training, mental health, health, mental health act, mental health act assessment, mental health act 1983, approved mental health professional, AMHP, Law, Case law, edt, legal training, emergency duty team, in-house training
My First Best Interests Assessment

Yesterday I completed my first Best Interests Assessment since the relatively new Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards went live on 1 April 2009. In brief these assessments grew from the need to clarify the legal position of those who lack capacity when...

Published 18 Apr 2009 7:06 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, older people, dementia, work, mental health, MCA, local authority, old age, long-term care, assessment, health, mental health act assessment, mental capacity act, Mental Capacity Act 2005, General practitioner, AMHP, Best Interests Assessor, best interests assessment, bia, dols, Care Quality Commission, deprivation of liberties safeguards, dols assessment, deprivation of liberties
An Assessment

I mentioned in passing that I was out at an early morning assessment earlier in the week. I wanted to reflect on some of the issues that arose without mentioning too much of the detail. It was the second attempt to assess as the first visit, Mr A had...

Published 27 Mar 2009 6:20 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, older people, work, ASW, mental health, old age, elderly, assessment, health, hospital, mental health act assessment, work-related stress, General practitioner, AMHP, Psychiatrist
Last week’s work

Over the weekend, I realised that I hadn’t really posted anything relating to the work I did last week. Sometimes I had touched on the more general newsworthy items and sometimes on items more personal to me, but a definite aim of writing when I...

Published 9 Mar 2009 6:10 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, older people, work, mental health, MCA, local authority, old age, health, local government, mental health act assessment, AMHP, Best Interests Assessor
Office Politics

There is an icy chill in the office at the moment. Two people have had a big falling out. I’m not sure of all of the details and of course, even if I were, I wouldn’t be able to post about it, but it has made my desk a fairly unpleasant place...

Published 30 Jan 2009 6:32 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, work, mental health, local authority, old age, elderly, uk, health, stress, mental health act assessment, personal, AMHP, guardianship application, office politics
Back to Work

I possibly mentioned it previously but for the record, I was working all the designated ‘working days’ up to and between Christmas and the New Year (so I had three days off, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day). I didn’t...

Published 7 Jan 2009 6:56 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: dementia, work, mental health, psychiatric hospital, mental health act assessment
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,...

Published 21 Jun 2008 5:14 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

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