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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.

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'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.

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

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Thursday
Sep232010

Risk-taking and the 'Risk Business'

DateThursday, September 23, 2010 at 9:43PM

We are in 'the risk business', but what is so wrong about that? Just as risk applies to the lives of everyone every day, so risk has always been an integral part of daily working practice in mental health services. We have choices:

  • To take a narrow and restrictive approach in our expectations of risk avoidance, with the more likely consequences of frustrating the potential of those who deliver services, and risk the disengagement and disenchantment of those who need and use the services.
  • To be more proactive and constructive in our appreciation that calculated risk-taking motivates and benefits everyone.

The article below (unpublished) sets out a definition of what Positive Risk-Taking is and how we go about doing it in a constructive way

PDF: Risk Taking and the Risk Business

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



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Tuesday
Sep212010

Positive risk-taking: an idea whose time has come

DateTuesday, September 21, 2010 at 8:54PM

Update: Originally the PDF was missing (and our thanks to an eagle-eyed visitor for letting us know). The PDF has now been added. The article is from 2004 and is a forerunner of 2 other articles, published in 2010, which can be found here.

This was the first of Steve's dedicated articles to the concept of positive risk-taking, and is produced here with kind permission from the publishers of Health Care Risk Report.

PDF: Positive risk-taking: an idea whose time has come

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