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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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A Challenge to Evidence Based Practice

DateThursday, November 11, 2010 at 4:38PM

What is the evidence base for risk as we know it? Isn’t an evidence base meant to be something constructive and supportive for practitioners to use in their judgements and interventions? This article (unpublished) explains the impact of a blame culture, and recommends how we should shift to a strengths-based and positive risk-taking agenda as a more constructive way of working with risk.

PDF: A Challenge to Evidence Based Practice: Reshaping the Risk Agenda

The PowerPoint presentation: ‘Risk Assessment and Management: The Role of Evidence, Politics and Practice’ was developed for an invitation to present at the Royal College of Psychiatrists AGM ON 4th July 2008. Due to illness I was unable to attend, but the presentation is available to be viewed.

Powerpoint: Risk Assessment and Management: The Role of Evidence, Politics and Practice

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

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