Direct payments and mental health: new dimensions
 

Working with People with Learning Disabilities


Learning materials to support the Level 2 Learning Disability Qualification Induction Award in Supporting People with a Learning Disability

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Today: a handbook


This accessible and wide-ranging handbook is invaluable both to students and practitioners wishing to develop their knowledge and understanding of the difficulties experienced by young people and their families.

Crossing Frontiers
International Developments in the Treatment of Drug Dependence

Managing Stress and Violence at Work


Work-related stress has been consistently identified as one of the major workplace concerns to employees and can ultimately challenge the healthiness and performance of an organisation. The training provided by this resource will empower staff to deal with and reduce workplace stress and violence.

Promoting mental health and well-being of older people
Learner workbook

Materials to support the Level 3 certificate and introductory award (available from December 2008) Published by partnership with Age Concern and City & Guilds.

Promoting the mental health and well-being of older people
Learner workbook

Material to support the level 2 award (available from September 2008) Published by Pavilion in partnership with Age Concern and City & Guilds

Promoting the mental health and well-being of older people
Trainer manual

Materials to support the level 3 certificate and introductory award (available from December 2008) Published by Pavilion in partnership with Age Concern and City & Guilds.

Promoting the mental health and well-being of older people
Trainer manual

Material to support the Level 2 award (available from September 2008) Published by Pavilion in partnership with Age Concern and City & Guilds

Psychosis Revisited


Built on innovative work by The British Psychological Society (BPS), the training resource examines practical ways in which to work effectively with people who have psychotic experiences.

Sex and the 3 Rs


A frank training resource, with clear line drawings to inform adults with learning disabilities about their rights and responsibilities and possible risks of their sexual lives.

Staff Supervision In Social Care - New, Revised 3rd Edition
Making a real difference to staff and service users

Supporting people in their own homes - single copy
The Skills for Care common induction training standards for domicilary care workers

A guide for the newly appointed domiciliary care worker and their manager/employer through this process to ensure that their induction meets the appropriate standards and that they have received the necessary training to enable them to work safely and appropriately.

Whose Secret?
DVD training resource

The aim of the training pack is to help prevent abuse of vulnerable adults by raising awareness of the issues across a wide range of agencies.

Working with Drug Users
Available summer 2008

This training resource improves the care of regular users of drugs or alcohol and those who experience problems connected to their physical health, relationships, financial situation or become involved in crime as a consequence.

Feeling Safe - Children and young people's group facilitator's resource


Therapeutic group programme using creative interventions for children and young people who have experienced domestic violence.

Feeling Safe - complete set of facilitator's resources


Includes both the Childrens and young people's group facilitator's resource and the Women's group facilitator's resource.

Feeling Safe - Women's group facilitator's resource


Therapeutic group programme using creative interventions for women who have experienced domestic violence.

Managing Self-harm


Focuses on helping those individuals whose self-harming behaviour is a repeated act carried out primarily as a way out of an unbearable emotional state. The training pack offers coherent and pragmatic framework for working with self-harm.

Person-centred Active Support
A multi-media training resource for staff to enable participation, inclusion and choice for people with learning disabilities

Strength to Strength
A facilitator's guide to preparing supervisees, students and trainees for supervision

Supporting people in their own homes - Pack of 5
The Skills for Care common induction training standards for domiciliary care workers

A guide for the newly appointed domiciliary care worker and their manager/employer through this process to ensure that their induction meets the appropriate standards and that they have received the necessary training to enable them to work safely and appropriately.

Using DANOS to Develop Practice in the Workplace
Set of 12 Workbooks (15% discount on total individual cost)

Materials to support the delivery and achievement of DANOS units for substance misuse staff working towards the Health and Social Care N/SVQ Levels 3 and 4.

Caring for the Older Person - single copy
The Skills for Care induction training standards for newly appointed care workers

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment Schedule (ChA-PAS)
The ChA-PAS handbook and clinical interview

Designed to improve the evidence base for child and adolescent psychiatric assessment, this unique resource aids the process of skilled diagnosis and formulation.

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment Schedule (ChA-PAS)
Score Forms - Pack of 20

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment Schedule (ChA-PAS)
Score Forms - Pack of 40

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment Schedule (ChA-PAS)
Score Forms - Pack of 60

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment Schedule (ChA-PAS)
Score Forms - Pack of 80

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment Schedule (ChA-PAS)
Score Forms - Pack of 100

Making the Most of Supervision
A support manual for supervisees in health and social care

‘A highly recommended read for all. Take the ideas and use them’ Sean Turner, Trainer and Supervisor for Radical Services – Crisis Interventions. Published in Interprofessional Care 21(5) 2007.

Mental Health Promotion for People with Learning Disabilities
Available from Autumn 2008

Supporting people with learning disabilities to stay mentally well.

Learning Disability Today
2nd Edition Fully Revised

Accessible and thought provoking the handbook will help practitioners to reassess their values, consolidate their skills and gain new insights into needs of people with learning disabilities.

Managing At The Front Line
A handbook for managers in social care agencies

Mental Health Today: a handbook
'From the front cover to the last page this book encourages thought and reflection, in a manner that informs and challenges in a wholly unthreatening way. Wholeheartedly recommend this book for entry level workers to the mental health field'. - May 2007

The Mini PAS-ADD Handbook
Psychiatric Assessments Schedules for Adults with Developmental Disabilities

Young Minds
Looking After the Mental Health of Looked After Children

Mental Health in Learning Disabilities: a training resource


When people with learning disabilities suffer from mental health problems, they need specially trained care. The following training resources are essential for developing the skills and knowledge needed to give such care. These resources will also aid you in relevant units of N/SVQs in Health and Social Care and the new Learning Disability Qualification Induction Award that replaces LDAF.

Stress at Work and how to reduce it: A manager's guide
Training course

Working with Risk
Trainer's Manual

The group exercises are excellent and the manuals are well laid out. I would feel able to facilitate this workshop without any specialist knowledge.’ Nursing Standard, November 2007

Caring for the Older Person - Pack of 5
The Skills for Care induction training standards for newly appointed care workers

Mental Health in Learning Disabilities: a reader (3rd edtion)
A Reader

Each module in Mental Health and Learning Disability is supported by a chapter in the reader.

Stress at Work and how to reduce it: A manager's guide
Self-learning tool

Understanding Learning Disabilities (DVD)
A dvd-based resource for trainers and managers to use with their staff

Working with Risk
Practitioner's Manual

The group exercises are excellent and the manuals are well laid out. I would feel able to facilitate this workshop without any specialist knowledge.’ Nursing Standard, November 2007

A Holistic Approach to Black and Minority Ethnic Mental Health
The Letting Through Light Training Pack

A1 Award
Assess Candidates Using a Range of Methods

An Introduction to Coaching for the Health and Social Care Sectors


Focuses on coaching as a way of motivating and developing the skills and expertise of people on an everyday basis, for the benefit of the person concerned and for the organisation.

Beat Bullying!
Working with looked after children to overcome threatening behaviour

Becoming a Woman
A teaching pack on menstruation for young women with learning disabilities

Blurring the Boundaries
Report on the relationship between housing, care and financial support for older people