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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, I’m still a little raw. I’ll say is that...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-21-2008

  • 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 patient’s mother before first assessment...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-19-2008

  • 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 good chance for reminiscence. It brought back to ...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-02-2008

  • 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 for my Approved Social Worker (ASW) training course...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-25-2008

  • 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 practice, written work and an interview) which...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-22-2008

  • 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 local authority that become very [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-16-2008

  • 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 change while we were training. General consensus ...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-30-2008

  • 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 papers but, as our tutor pointed out, not...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-22-2008

  • 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 done yet and how long they’ll take. I’m...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-18-2008

  • 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.. not great but not awful and it’s done now...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-17-2008
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