February 2011 - Posts

useful links for the week ahead - Carers and Mental Health

Published 27 Feb 2011 11:34 AM | ladybird

In Early Intervention in Psychosis Teams internationally there are five standards of care,otherwise known as The Newcastle Declaration , which in the beginning was decided upon by the World Health Authority, Rethink and Iris , one of these is Family Engagement...

Filed under: Carers, confidentiality, mental health, Young Carers

a busy week

Published 26 Feb 2011 8:59 AM | ladybird

well you know whats its like - i have a bit of leave coming up so have to cram everything i can in one week and then catch upon everything else when i comeback. that is what some people in other professions dont get is that no-one does our work for us...

Filed under: assessments, pathological, referrals, Romany, Travellers

co-ocuring substance misuse and psychosis : Dual diagnosis

Published 21 Feb 2011 9:07 PM | ladybird

Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE Dual diagnosis is defined as the co-occurrence of mental health and substance misuse problems (Velleman 2007). They are separate disorders that have an independent course but also influence the properties...

Filed under: dual diagnosis, mental health substance misuse

more useful links - co-occuring substance misuse and psychosis

Published 21 Feb 2011 8:16 PM | ladybird

two fab documents from Rethink; a toolkit and a leaflet for supporters http://www.rethink.org/dualdiagnosis/toolkit.html http://www.rethink.org/dualdiagnosis/leaflet.html --------------------------------------- an argument that suggests assessment and...

i love my job

Published 16 Feb 2011 7:38 PM | ladybird

How much do i love working in Early Intervention in Psychosis? - as my son used to say as i love you as big as the sky, which does not really make sense but you get the gist that i absolutely love it. i love the fact our assessment process can take up...

useful links for the week-ahead.

Published 13 Feb 2011 5:34 PM | ladybird

am i normal - a really great website with a brilliant demonstration of the stress/ vulnerability model illustrated with a bucket http://www.aminormal.org/home.htm am i ok? - another website aimed specifically for young people made by Bucks Early Intervention...

strechting us till we break!

Published 10 Feb 2011 6:39 PM | ladybird

i work part time in early intervention in psychosis and part time in the CMHT, i work in a rural part of ruralshire. we dont have a specialist team for working with aspergers syndrome we have an OT in a recovery team who works with people with aspergers...

no health without mental health....................

Published 5 Feb 2011 1:21 PM | ladybird

So the long awaited document from the con-dems about mental health has been released , the one which replaces New Horizons .........unfortunately there are no lovely photos like the new horizons one; had that must be to do with the cuts, one of the things...