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‘The Strengths Revolution’ weekly podcast show was launched on 22nd April 2014. Just go into iTunes Store, click the ‘Podcast’ link on the top menu, then put ‘The Strengths Revolution’ into the search box.

Listen, subscribe, and add a review if you feel able to. Remember… listening, downloading or subscribing to the show is FREE!

'Working with Strengths' was published in May 2014 as a comprehensive resource for reviewing the literature and reflecting on strengths-based practice as applied to people in contact with services, as well as the strengths-focused development of practitioners, teams and organisations. It draws on the wider business literature as well as health and social care references to broaden the applicability of the ideas.

'Risk Decision-Making' was published in 2013 to help shift the focus from a tick-box culture to the realities of what good practice should be about. The manual and cd-rom provide the resources that should engage senior management in organisations, as well as the practitioners and multidisciplinary teams.

June 2007 saw the publication of the Working With Risk Trainers Manual and Practitioner Manual through Pavilion Publishing. The Trainers Manual provides a flexible two-day training programme, with the option of using any of the individual sessions as stand-alone training resources. The Practitioner Manual provides a set of practice-based risk tools with supporting guidance on how and when to use each. These materials also aim to discuss some of the wider risk issues and identify a key part of current research and literature. The practice-based tools are also supported by completed case examples.

To make contact either send me a message via the 'Contact Me' form or (if it's urgent) you can call me on 07733 105264.

Practice Based Evidence commenced business in October 2001. Promoting the value of the messages from service users, carers and practitioners experiences. These are often marginalised by the emphasis placed on research.

 

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    Jointly written by Practice Based Evidence & ARW, this resource is of importance to everyone in mental health, social care and learning disability services, including primary care.

  • Assertive Outreach: A Strengths Approach to Policy and Practice
    Assertive Outreach: A Strengths Approach to Policy and Practice

    Primarily aimed at developing assertive outreach, but its focus on a strengths approach is applicable to all parts of the mental health system.

Entries in OpenMind (7)

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Nov042010

CPA: a process or an event?

DateThursday, November 4, 2010 at 9:13PM
First published in Openmind February 2007 and printed here with kind permission

In the article below, available as a PDF, Steve Morgan argues that we need a radical shift in thinking to support the CPA to deliver in the way originally intended.

PDF: CPA - process or event? - OpenMind article

To read the report above you will need free software called Adobe Reader. This software can be downloaded here.

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Sep232010

‘Personalisation revisited’

DateThursday, September 23, 2010 at 9:12PM

The article linked within was first published in Openmind 159, Sept/Oct 2009) and is made available as a PDF with their kind permission.

Excerpt: The conundrum

The current driver for the transformation of all UK public services is the concept of personalisation.

But haven’t we been here before, and if so what have we failed to learn? Case management, the National Service Frameworks, Valuing People in learning disability services, and recovery are but a few of the recent designs on service delivery sharing some common characteristics. They all lay claim to service user-focused or person-centred ways of working, and all are intended to transform the way services are delivered. Personalisation may just be he latest catchphrase for the same messages. If so, is it the aims or the message that we are getting wrong?

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