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  • World Mental Health Day

    Today is World Mental Health Day with a focus on promoting positive mental health. Wellbeing in the East of England (perhaps not the catchiest of monikers.. ) have produced a series of short films that have been put out on television in.. yes, you guessed it, the east of England! I haven’t caught...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-10-2008

  • Placements and Practice

    Last week, Community Care reported that a social worker, Ruth Hughes, was struck off the GSCC register after being found guilty of misconduct. There were a couple of details about the situation as reported that struck me. Firstly, in the hearing, one of the criticisms made of her her then manager Amanda...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-26-2008

  • Reasons to the Cheerful - Part One

    I had, for one reason or another, a particularly difficult week last week. Partly due to work-related matters and issues - trying to cram in a five day workload into three days with a couple of days out training - partly just stuff happening at home that I wasn’t expecting - nothing particularly...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-15-2008

  • Delayed Discharges

    Since moving from a generic Community Care team into a specialist Mental Health team a few years ago, I haven’t had as much contact with the vagaries of the delayed discharge system as I did back then. Yesterday was a rude (in every sense of the word) awakening. The Community Care (Delayed Discharge...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-27-2008

  • Some things for the (long) weekend..

    By the time this is published, I’ll be sitting on a train on my way to beautiful Northumbria - ready to sun myself over the weekend - ok, maybe ’sunning myself’ is a bit hopeful…. I had a positive response to my last round-up post - well , three people said they liked it and no...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-22-2008

  • Twelve for the Glorious Twelfth

    In recognition (note - not celebration) of the Glorious Twelfth which is traditionally the start of the grouse hunting season, I give you, twelve bloggers whose posts have caught my attention recently and that I haven’t been able to fit in anywhere else! I haven’t been very good at linking...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-12-2008

  • Social Inclusion online?

    This morning, I came across this interview in The Guardian with Tim Hunt, Mental Health Lead on the Patient Opinion site which is from a couple of weeks back now. I had never heard of Patient Opinion, but it is a site which, unsurprisingly, given the name,  allows patients to give opinions on the services...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-11-2008

  • Defending Political Correctness

    There seems many an implied or direct criticism of being ‘overly political correct’ - people find some random and strange judgement and laughingly refer to ‘political correctness gone mad’ amid the sniggers a - many of them facts being wholly absent. The Daily Mail (there’s...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-21-2008

  • Stigma in Parliament

    More than a quarter of parliamentary staff surveyed, including MPs, Lords and support staff, suffer from mental illness brought about by stress according to an article published in The Independent today. A MIND press release further breaks down the figures revealing that An anonymous questionnaire completed...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-16-2008

  • Assumptions

    I work in the inner city and have since I did my first practice placement in the first year of my social work course almost 10 years ago now.  For as long as I have been working as a social worker , I have only ever worked in the inner city - different parts of [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-01-2008
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