Book: Stories from Care Experienced Adults to Inspire Change

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"In this poignant book, Lisa Cherry brings together a collection of candid and personal reflections on the care system in the UK, offering alternative ways of thinking about the care experience, supporting better ways of working, and providing justification for a trauma-informed lens to be applied to all forms of work with those in care. Through personal insights and reflections, the book brings often-unheard stories vividly to life, beginning with the author’s own. These are stories about love and pain; hurt and isolation; the depth of lived experience that makes up a life; how we live our lives through our relationships with others and where we feel we fit in. In this thoughtfully compiled third edition, original contributors look back on their own reflections from the lives that they live now, new stories bring new perspectives, and discussion points provide the opportunity to consider the realities of the care experience as well as life beyond."

The Brightness of Stars: Stories from Care Experienced Adults to Inspire Change

Stories from Care Experienced Adults to Inspire Change

"Whilst each story is unique, shared themes reveal the truth of the care system and, coming at a time where there is a real opportunity for change, the narratives in this book are ultimately stories of hope and connection. This is crucial reading for policy makers, those working in social work, education and adoption, as well as care experienced adults." [Text c/o Routledge]

Lisa Cherry (2022) The Brightness of Stars: Stories from Care Experienced Adults to Inspire Change
London: Routledge. ISBN 9781032191584 

https://www.routledge.com/The-Brightness-of-Stars-Stories-from-Care-Experienced-Adults-to-Inspire/Cherry/p/book/9781032191584#

My source:

https://twitter.com/CareExp_Culture/status/1606208952437420032?s=20&t=nacOiLCrUFCCuNQiEY4dKw

Court of Protection: Supported Decision-Making - case of P

SELF - individual

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group - POPULATION

Decisions on: residence, care, alcohol consumption, depression reluctant and distrustful of (statutory) services Who would P feel she could trust  to help with decision? psychological interventions P. being listened to ... feel safer, healthier, in control, respected	detox placement  (identified by LA) place - area physical health services Access to knowledge - local expert - 'signposting'
Asking why and why again ... distrust of social workers sister and neice primary people of trust then GP. So family and GP became more involved. engagement	Local Authority [LA] Social workers and mental health support workers agreed to take a back seat CRPD Committee Mental Capacity Act Judge, Lawyer option to introduce elements of supported decision-making into the Court of Protection

This morning in a Court of Protection case, Macdonald J endorsed a supported decision-making approach. P has alcohol dependence & depression. She lacks capacity to make decisions about residence, care and alcohol consumption. (1)

— Oliver Lewis (@DrOliverLewis) April 3, 2019

c/o R Layard "Enact policies to boost emotional health"

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individual well-being MENTAL HEALTH "HAPPINESS - EMOTIONAL HEALTH	"EVIDENCE-BASED" "overarching criterion for measurement" processes - SCIENCES" PHYSICAL HEALTH
COMMUNITY WELL-BEING Society Social values Social cohesion	POLICIES on - "schools, mental health, family support, child support, addiction, social work,  loneliness, methods of management and town planning."

"Fortunately more and more governments are beginning to think along these lines."

Prof. Richard Layard* (2019) FT Weekend, 9-10 March. "Enact policies to boost emotional health"
Author of: Happiness - Lessons from a new Science

*Co-director, Well-Being Programme, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, UK

Paper: How social workers reflect in action and when and why they don’t [Mapped to h2cm]

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The self - personhood Reflection (as core concept) has value and limitations Non-reflection to protect the self Unbearable anxiety psychoanalysis - findings defended nature of the self thinking & non-thinking 'suspended self-preservation' Self - Two perspectives - Service User emotional intelligence internal supervision intuition - improvisation Reflexive Helicoptering - metacognition Sexuality (form of bracketing-off of oneself)* lived experience of the senses RATIONALE

Theories of reflection Frameworks for reflection (reflective practice) physical / somatic effects of anxiety ethnographic study audio recordings Reflective practice demands that you learn from experience. It requires you to be self-critical. It expects you to analyse what you think, feel, and do... #When is it better NOT to reflect? 'Containment' 'splitting' risks (being completely non-reflective) experiences and the (mobile) body TECHNICAL

*limits capacity of some aspects of relational work  Social Work Practice Home visits Family home children and parents 'tacit knowing-in-action' Reflection in Practise Fieldwork - home, car SW composed when service users in distress, absorb their sadness, shame, fears, and at times their joy # Face-to-Face interviews Relationships: sexuality, gender offloading informally - office

Social Work / Clinical Case Supervision  offloading formally Two Local Authorities Management Supervision and Governance Child protection Power Organisational risk management Policies, Procedures Lone working... Influence in 'advocacy' [comment on twitter - see below] (as a Professional or 'Independent'?)

Harry Ferguson (2018): How social workers reflect in action and when and why they don’t: the possibilities and limits to reflective practice in social work, Social Work Education, DOI: 10.1080/02615479.2017.1413083

My source: Twitter
 

Film: Sanctuary

"The Deprofessionals" BBC radio4: nursing, teaching and social work

Driving to Milton Keynes late afternoon for DTMD2013 Mon-Weds, I listened to a BBC radio 4 programme about the political assault on several public professions - The Deprofessionals

What does it mean to be a professional today, at a time when the public services are in a state of turmoil?
Time was when a professional was easily recognised for what he or she did by virtue of their qualifications and experience, when their competence could be measured against ...

It should be available for the next week.

When I think about community mental health nursing since 1985 I can identify with many of the points raised. How the role has changed, the former therapeutic skills focus, the change in skill mix, the advent of Agenda for Change and the existence of staff who may miss being clinically 'banded' altogether.

reVision Launch, 20th September 2012, Liverpool, UK

My source: MHHE list

Invitation to the Launch of reVision (formerly The Joint Forum)

We are a coalition of radical activists who believe in the social model of mental health.
We are seeking to be a voice for change by promoting and exploring knowledge and understandings of the social, economic and political causes of mental distress, and by proposing socially derived alternatives to medicalised approaches.

 Our vision is a society in which the social causes of mental distress are understood and treated with socially based solutions that improve individual lives and bring about wider social change.

We are launching our organisation on Thursday 20th on September 2012
At Liverpool John Moores University, Room 5.04, Avril Robarts, 79 Tithebarn Street,
Liverpool, L2 2ER from 1.00 to 4.00pm

We will be welcoming new members to the organisation at the launch, and are looking for people who seek radical alternatives to psychiatry and who have a critical, political understanding of the social causes of mental distress.

Our keynote speakers will be:

• Helen Spandler, member of Asylum and contributer to Critical Psychiatry
• Malcolm Kinney, Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Social Work: LJMU
• Phil O’Hare, Senior Lecturer: School of Social Work: UCLAN
• Naphtali Titus Chondol, mental health activist
• Jackie Patiniotis, freelance researcher with a particular interest in women’s mental health and working to end violence against women and girls

Please email ... to confirm your attendance.

Slides: Social Work Action Network SWAN Conference 31 March 2012

Here are the slides from the Social Work in Action - SWAN conference HOPE University in Liverpool 30-31 March 2012. The session was an introduction to the model. I've used the same template and some of the slides from Colombia last year adding a few new ones for this audience and to reflect the SWAN conference themes. The organizers have a copy of my slides which should appear on their site. The keynote session by Professor Danny Dorling from the University of Sheffield and the main speakers were also videoed and will be made available on the SWAN site.

It is a very difficult time for public services, the NHS and social care. This was a fascinating opportunity to witness the POLITICAL care domain as a 'living entity' not as some remote, abstract thing that other people engage in and appears on the news. This year and following ... the stakes are even higher in terms of possible cuts to follow.

Any questions, other opportunities to present Hodges' model please get in touch.

Social Work Action Network SWAN Conference 31 March 2012 Hodges model from Peter Jones

h2cm at 7th Annual Social Work Action Network Conference (SWAN)

The final programme is still to be confirmed, but I'll be presenting Hodges' model as a workshop next month at the 7th Annual Social Work Action Network Conference (SWAN). This will be hosted by Liverpool Hope University on 30 and 31 March 2012. This is a 40 minute train journey for me - a nice change.

As the website states: There will be two sessions of the conference made available to people to present their own research or conduct workshops. We are keen to facilitate alternative styles of presentation and would encourage people to consider group presentations, dramas, art-based workshops, social pedagogical based presentations as well, of course, as more traditional research presentations.

For several decades I have worked with many Social Workers: sitting across the desk at a community mental health project; as team members; doing joint home and residential care visits; being chased for assessment reports for 'Panel'. It will be very interesting to take in the activistic fervour at the conference. The other aspect of social work I am aware of is the relentless re-organisation they face - in common with health.

I also relish the opportunity to see how Hodges' model is received. A presentation and workshop will be prepared. Is h2cm the generic, multidisciplinary and universally applicable conceptual framework that I believe it to be?