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  • 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

  • Mental health, work, and new incapacity benefit rules

    by Helen Waddell Because of the disabling symptoms of schizoaffective disorder I am unable to work, and obtain an income by claiming incapacity benefit. I feel relieved that I will not be subject to the criteria under which new claimants for its replacement - the employment and support allowance - will...
    Posted to The Social Care Experts Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-16-2008

  • 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

  • Normality?

    The question of ‘normality’ and what it is  has cropped up again in relation to this weekend’s Bonkerfest. I read about it in The Times at the weekend in an article which explains the ‘Mad Pride’ movement which has made its way over here, unsurprisingly, from the States...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-15-2008

  • Approval

    Yesterday, I received confirmation of the ‘approval’ part of my new role as an ‘approved social worker’ (ASW). After completing the designated additional specialist mental health training a couple of months back and having spent these remaining months, carrying out Mental Health...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-10-2008

  • 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

  • Looking for beds

    The new president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Professor Dinesh Bhugra, will according to the Guardian use his inaugural speech to lament the problems caused by the shortage of acute psychiatric beds in the system. This is something we hear a lot about, and indeed, something described on There...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-29-2008

  • Multi-disciplinary working.. or not.

    I read in on the Times website that a letter has been written to the British Journal of Psychiatry,  in which 36 signatories complain that ‘patients with serious problems are often referred to psychologists and social workers rather than clinicians and do not receive the medical therapies...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-27-2008

  • 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
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