Training body Skills for Care has suggested that social workers be trained in self defence to help prepare them for dangerous situations.
Do you agree? Would you want such training? Or would it only make matters worse? I'd be interested in your thoughts
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i am a social worker in a mental health team which means i am seconded to the NHS, we have breakaway training which is similar to sef defence i think, i would say yes social worker should be trained to get themselves out of tricky situations obviously negotiaion is the best but if someone has you in a headlock or pinned up against the wall you need to know how to get away from the situation.
of course they should. if all else fails a swift kick on the goolies works.
It would be far more useful than the ECDL which up until this year was a requirement to qualify. Especially in light of other current threads in this section today.
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simeon2: Training body Skills for Care has suggested that social workers be trained in self defence to help prepare them for dangerous situations. Do you agree? Would you want such training? Or would it only make matters worse? I'd be interested in your thoughts
I am a non practising karate black belt, I used to work in residential and secure units and have found the skills I learnt with regards to timing and anticipation very useful indeed. and have managed to extricate safely many a colleague from a situation that they couldn't and shouldn't have been managing
Conversely speaking i have seen workers who have had breakaway / restraint training, and aren't skilled fighters, get very badly injured as they had been lulled into a false sense of security by taking a five day course.
In my Karate club we had a maxim "fighter borne; not fighter made"!!!
Yes, I've heard it said before that a little training is more dangerous than none
queenb: It would be far more useful than the ECDL which up until this year was a requirement to qualify. Especially in light of other current threads in this section today.
but is that enough to say we need it? i mean... the ECDL isn't an awful lot of use...
Breakaway and de-escalation training should suffice.
And don't, ever, ever follow titchmagoo's advice.
GeneralPig: Breakaway and de-escalation training should suffice. And don't, ever, ever follow titchmagoo's advice.
i agree with that by the way.
I'm not a fighter, I'm a bleeder.
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