Working with People in Secure Forensic Mental Health Settings

Cover of the book - Working with People in Secure Forensic Mental Health Settings - A staff training pack providing key underpinning knowledge for induction and CPD

This training pack contains three units to help frontline staff working in forensic mental health to develop their knowledge and practice.

Working within secure forensic settings can be highly demanding, and individuals starting work in this challenging and complex sector will be faced with a very steep learning curve. This training pack has been developed to support new staff members in gaining and developing their understanding of work in forensic mental health services. For those already working with mentally disordered offenders, the material will allow the learner to reflect on their practice and explore their existing knowledge in more depth.

The training pack comprises of three units which are designed to enable the learners to understand their role within secure forensic services, how to develop therapeutic relationships with service users, and how to assess and manage risk effectively. The three units can be run over consecutive days to form a comprehensive training course or delivered individually as standalone units. The training pack includes a CD-rom with all of the resources needed to run the training, including handouts, training materials and PowerPoint slides.

The materials will help learners to evidence aspects of the following Forensic Mental Health National Occupational Standards:

  • SFHFMH1 – Assess, diagnose and formulate an individual’s mental health disorder
  • SFHFMH3 – Observe an individual who presents a significant imminent risk to themselves or others
  • SFHFMH8 – Assess and formulate an individual’s needs for forensic mental health treatment and care
  • SFHFMH9 – Develop and review an integrated care programme for an individual in forensic mental health care
  • SFHFMH11 – Support an individual in forensic mental health care to participate in treatment
  • SFHFMH12 – Manage hostility and risk with non-co-operative individuals, families and carers
  • SFHFMH13 – Help an individual to feel more psychologically secure
  • SFHFMH15 – Increase the individual’s capacity to manage negative or distressing thoughts and emotional states

 

 

 

Attachment-based Practice with Adults

Cover of the book - Attachment-based Practice with Adults

Attachment-based Practice with Adults is an illustrated, multi-media resource offering a theoretically coherent, practice-based model for the application of attachment theory in working with any adults, including those who pose a risk to themselves or to other adults or children.

At the heart of the resource is the five-step LEARN model, a flexible interviewing strategy which helps practitioners work with confidence in an attachment-informed way. Having introduced contemporary attachment theory, its links with neuro-biology and the importance of personal stories, the manual and audio DVD provide five powerful case studies to illustrate the three different attachment strategies, with audio interviews, commentaries and guided practical exercises.

A detailed Interviewing Guide provides an invaluable framework for conducting and making sense of interviews, with examples of possible responses which might promote integration. Further exercises provide the basis for assessment and intervention with clients, and a final section shows how attachment-informed supervision can help to enhance practice.

As a work-based resource, Attachment-based Practice with Adults increases the confidence of practitioners to act as change agents with their clients, and to relate to them in attuned and effective ways. It can be used by individuals, teams, co-workers, supervisors and teachers/trainers to reflect on and improve the preparation, use and support of attachment thinking in practice. It speaks to diverse professions and modalities and can be used in a multidisciplinary environment by both adult and children’s services.

Author Clark Baim also runs a 10 day course, Attachment-based Practice, spread over 9 – 12 months for all professionals who work with people in distress or who are at risk of harm to themselves or others, of which this training resource accompanies.

Professionals within the social care sector are required to undertake Continuous Professional Development (CPD) by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). Those who use this resource will be able to gain CPD points.

Read the great reviews for Attachment-based Practice with Adults. (pdf)

 

 

Applying Person-centred Care in Mental Health

Cover of the book - Applying Person-centred Care in Mental Health - A guide to values-based practice

Applying Person-centred Care in Mental Health focuses on the environment of inpatient mental health units. Here, a patient’s actions are often understood through reference to their illness; if they disagree with staff they lack insight or are aggressive, if they seek independence they are uncooperative and non-compliant, if they wish to be alone they are seen as withdrawn. Imagine being this patient, faced with situations where you are told your reality is not right, that you are a different person to who you think you are and that you have a mental disorder and need treatment, even though you do not think so. Imagine the impact this clash of values could have on you, where your values are routinely undermined, ignored, or subsumed within a medical paradigm.

This contemporary and unique guide will be valuable for all staff working with people with a mental illness. Its focus is on inpatient units, however it also applies to staff working in the community. The guide provides a broad understanding of values-based practice and how to work with people’s values from a person-centred perspective.

Developed by K.W.M. Fulford, values-based practice ensures that the person, as a patient, has their perspective acknowledged and considered in any decisions or actions taken. This book utilises a 10 principle decision-making framework to guide and enable clinicians to reflect on their engagement and clinical decisions. Using exercises and practice scenarios, values used in clinical practice, how they present in different situations and how they influence decision making are examined. It will assist you to critique and monitor your practice in order to maintain best care according to the patient’s perspective.

 

 

Autism Arts Level 3

Cover of the book - Autism Arts (Level 3) - A drama syllabus for children on the autism spectrum

Autism Arts Level 3 follows the way creative arts and drama-therapy are increasingly used to help people with special educational needs to explore, reflect and develop when linguistic ability or intellectual functioning restricts their self-expression.

Autism Arts Level 3: is for use by facilitators with and without drama experience, and encourages autistic children to learn, interact and develop. Through storytelling, group activities and arts and crafts, students can improve their social skills, self-expression, vocal and physical skills, and imagination.

During the course, children are encouraged to take part in fun and imaginative activities, including singing, dancing, making sock puppets, and acting in the interactive stories Sandy’s Jungle Adventure and The Land of Smilealot!

The Autism Arts Level 3 syllabus covers three levels. Each level is one year long and comprises three terms with 12 lessons per term. Level 3 draws on the previous learning to encourage students to develop an integrated sense of self. The content is aimed at children and young people from five to fifteen.

Includes CD-rom with supplementary material.

The additional two manuals make up a drama syllabus to help autistic children develop their communication skills, life skills and self-confidence.

Autism Arts Level 1:

Autism Arts Level 2:

 

Autism Arts Level 2

Cover of the book - Autism Arts (Level 2) - A drama syllabus for children on the autism spectrum

Autism Arts Level 2 addresses the fact that creative arts and drama-therapy are increasingly used to help people with special educational needs to explore, reflect and develop when linguistic ability or intellectual functioning restricts their self-expression.

The Autism Arts Level 2 is a drama syllabus for use by facilitators with and without drama experience, and autistic children to learn, interact and develop. Through storytelling, group activities and arts and crafts, students can improve their social skills, self-expression, vocal and physical skills, and imagination.

During the course, children are encouraged to take part in fun and imaginative activities, including singing, dancing, making sock puppets, and acting in the interactive stories Sandy’s Jungle Adventure and The Land of Smilealot!

The Autism Arts Level 2 syllabus covers three levels. Each is level is one year long and comprises three terms with 12 lessons per term. Level 2 focuses on the voice and imagination. The content is aimed at children and young people from five to fifteen.

Includes CD-rom with supplementary material.

The additional two manuals make up a drama syllabus to help autistic children develop their communication skills, life skills and self-confidence.

Autism Arts Level 1:

Autism Arts Level 3:

Fire Dynamics for Firefighters

Cover of the book - Fire Dynamics for Firefighters (Volume 1) - Making fire dynamics science accessible

Fire Dynamics for Firefighters the first book in the Compartment Firefighting Series. It simplifies the science of fire dynamics for all frontline and trainee firefighters. It aims to empower firefighters with crucial knowledge around how fires start, spread and develop that will keep themselves and others safe. This allows them to make life saving decisions quickly, based upon the science of fire dynamics.

This flexible self-study book is also a valuable resource to support firefighters in keeping up with their professional development and training.

Neil Gibbins QFSM FIFireE says of the book: “This original and practical book challenges some of the thinking from the last decade and covers the imperative topics that all firefighters need to be fluent in, including the importance of flow rates and the impact of building construction on fire behaviour. Benjamin’s thought provoking use of case studies really brings the reality of the consequences home. This book will add to the tools available to firefighters as they deal with these situations on a daily basis.”

Dementia Awareness

Cover of the book - Dementia Awareness - A Care Quality Guide for health and social care staff and carers

The Dementia Awareness Care Quality Guide aims to help health and social care staff and carers refresh, develop or extend their learning in key areas of practice.

If you are new to working with this client group, or are in a new role, you can use this guide to quickly develop the knowledge you need, and where appropriate, work towards a relevant qualification.

If you are a more experienced worker, you can use the guide to refresh your learning, meet the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) standards for Continuous Professional Development (CPD).

If you are a manager, you can use the guide with staff in the context of supervision and CPD, and to contribute towards meeting Care Quality Commission (CQC)and HCPC standards.

This guide also provides underpinning knowledge for Qualifications and Credit Framework QCF unit DEM 201: Dementia awareness, and the thinking and practice activities can contribute to evidence of learning.

The guide also includes a short, illuminating film, Understanding the Experience of Dementia, in which people with dementia and their carers talk about their experiences of living with dementia, which can help staff and carers understand how people with dementia can be supported in a positive and meaningful way. Members of the HOPE group and their carers talk about living with dementia and the supports they have valued.

David Moore is a senior lecturer for the Association for Dementia Studies at the University of Worcester and fellow author Kirsty Jones is a training and development officer for the adults’ services training department at West Sussex County Council.

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ETpedia Technology

Cover of the book - ETpedia Technology - 500 ideas for using technology in the English language classroom

Technology is becoming an ever more popular and useful tool in the ELT classroom. Whether you are already an avid user of technology or you are inexperienced but want to explore more, then ETpedia Technology is the resource you need. It suggests ways to use text-based tools, multimedia, smartphones and more, as well as providing easy-to-use activities and more general advice for using technology in the classroom. It also covers some of the important discussions around using technology, such as the safety of young learners and the question of plagiarism. This resource can be used whatever your current teaching context, whether you are teaching in face-to-face lessons, online or a mix of the two, and can be adapted for whatever technology and resources you have available.

ETpedia Technology is part of the ETpedia series. Each book uses units of 10 to create an easy-to-use yet comprehensive resource book for the ELT classroom. The series includes the original ETpedia, providing 1000 ideas for English language teachers, as well as more specific resources which each provide 500 ideas on a particular topic. Topics include young learners, exams, grammar, management and materials writing.

You can take a look at a sample chapter from ETpedia Technology here.