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  • On the ward

    Image via Wikipedia I knew it wasn’t going to be a quiet day when I found a pink paper with a written recommendation for a Section 3 from one of our doctors sitting on my desk next to the ASW Duty Book - a book in which we note any Mental Health Act Assessments that [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-12-2008

  • 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

  • Second Sight in Risk Assessment

    I came across this story yesterday which was published in the Rye and Battle Observer about a 92 year old man who hanged himself because he was unable to cope at home and had been told he might not be placed in a residential home although he had asked to. I have to say honestly, I [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-01-2008

  • 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

  • Of cars and kittens

    I don’t drive. Not only do I not drive, I don’t actually have a driving license. My last driving lesson (14 years ago) ended in my driving instructor actually telling me she did not want to teach me anymore (2nd crash - in my defence it wasn’t serious - I only drove into the back [...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-05-2008
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