Author: Pavilion Publishing

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

Working with People with Learning Disabilities and Offending Behaviour

Cover of the book - Working with People with Learning Disabilities and Offending Behaviour Handbook - A handbook

This handbook is designed to provide the reader with information on forensic issues in people with learning disabilities. Covering the same topics as the training resource, it reflects the latest developments in services and treatment for this group. The handbook can be read independently or used to support the training course materials contained in Forensic Issues in People with Learning Disabilities: A multi-agency approach: A training resource.

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

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Autism and Intellectual Disability in Adults Volume 2

Cover of the book - Autism and Intellectual Disability in Adults (Volume 2) - Learning from success series

Autism and Intellectual Disability in Adults: Volume 2 explores issues and practice affecting the support of adults with intellectual disabilities who are on the autism spectrum. This volume explores potential key moments in the lives of adults with intellectual disabilities who are on the autism spectrum, covering a breadth of subjects. In this second volume, there is a substantial focus on autistic people with intellectual impairments who come into contact with the criminal justice system, with three chapters on this topic. Other topics include employment, autism and intellectual impairment in old age, mental health, housing, and the transforming care agenda. We have also included a number of chapters on our continuing theme of participatory research and practice.

This volume has been brought to you by a highly creative group of people, many of whom are either on the autism spectrum or have close family ties to autistic people. The focus of this series is not on the causes of autism; our interest instead lies in considering ways in which autistic people (focusing here on those with additional intellectual impairments) can have the best possible quality of life, on their own terms. Common themes emerge between authors, including the fundamental requirement to acknowledge, respect and facilitate autistic expertise as being central to the production of research, policy and practice.

Autism and Intellectual Disability in Adults: Volume 2 will inform and benefit health, social care, and education professionals, families, students, support staff in learning disability services and many others. The annual shares information, tools and resources in ways that are accessible, useful and usable by the broad range of professional groups involved in this area of practice.

Personalisation

Cover of the book - Personalisation - Practical thoughts and ideas from people making it happen

Discover how personalisation in adult social care transforms lives by empowering users to take control and shaping effective support strategies. Personalisation: practical thoughts and ideas from people making it happen is a practical guide on the use of personalisation in adult social care services. The content will consider how people can make sure that transformation happens, and how users can be enabled to take more control over their own support and their lives.

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.

Working with Strengths

Cover of the book - Working with Strengths - putting personalisation and recovery into practice

Working with Strengths is a handbook to delivering person-centred practice and recovery. The language in health and social care is littered with references to person-centred care, person-centred planning, personalisation, self-directed support, recovery and enablement.

However, there remains a degree of confusion between service users, carers, practitioners, managers and commissioners about the practical delivery of these concepts in daily practice. A consistent theme throughout all of these concepts is the need to identify and work with people’s strengths (i.e. their abilities, capabilities, qualities, motivations, wants and aspirations).

Outside of health and social care, the Gallup Organisation has identified through decades of research that focusing on strengths is at the heart of every successful business. So, it is not something that should only impact on the thinking and working of practitioners. Working with Strengths elaborates on how we need to place strengths as the driving force for staff development, team development and organisational leadership.

Youth Self-harm and Suicide Awareness

Cover of the book - Youth Self-harm and Suicide Awareness - A reflective practice training pack

Research shows that while staff find training courses that provide facts and figures about self-harm and suicide useful, such training does little to build their confidence when working with young people. In addition to exploring key facts and research, Youth Self-harm and Suicide Awareness seeks to recognise the importance of acknowledging attitudes and encourages workers to understand how their attitudinal stance impacts their work with young people who self-harm or feel suicidal.

The core training comprises two full-day modules: module one introduces self-harm in young people and module two expands on this learning by examining more closely working with young people who self-harm. Both modules are underpinned by a framework of reflective practice and a basic application of theories from transactional analysis.

Youth Self-harm and Suicide Awareness also includes three optional youth suicide prevention workshops, which can be run together as a full day’s training. The purpose of the workshops is to increase participants’ knowledge and understanding about youth suicide and to look at developing local youth suicide prevention guidelines and support within local areas and organisations.

Nutrition and Addiction

Cover of the book - Nutrition and Addiction - supporting recovery from food

Addiction treatment centres in the UK combine medication, counselling and behaviour modification to tackle cravings and aid recovery, yet relapse rates remain alarmingly high. A practical, in-depth handbook, Nutrition and Addiction examines newly emerging concepts in the management of addiction. Leading researchers and experienced nutrition practitioners explore the underlying nutritional and biochemical factors involved in addictive behaviour, and the importance of nutrition in the prevention and management of addiction and its role in sustainable recovery.

Nutrition and Addiction is an up-to-date, fully referenced resource with a glossary and guide to drug terms. It is a useful guide for those with a basic understanding of nutrition, as well as for more experienced practitioners and health care professionals.

Addiction Recovery

Cover of the book - Addiction Recovery - A movement for social change and personal growth in the UK

A theoretical but highly accessible book, Addiction Recovery helps develop understanding about the philosophy of recovery, what the supporting evidence is and how workers and managers can apply this in a more recovery friendly way, as well as what they can do to assess and evidence these changes.

It will examine evidence from a number of international recovery studies and examples of successes in the UK where established recovery communities and groups, some peer projects and some services, have changed their philosophy to a recovery-oriented one.

Strength, Support, Setbacks and Solutions is a follow-up to this book Addiction Recovery