Tanya Moore looks at a new qualitative study on how to teach reflective practice.
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The impact of community well-being champions in African and Caribbean communities
Jenny Fisher examines a study seeking to understand the role and the impact of community well-being champions in African and Caribbean communities.
[read the full story...]Something old, something new: Defensive practice in social work
Jill Manthorpe examines a study on social work student perspectives on defensive practice and finds that fear and organisational culture play a role and that this can effect service user and family engagement.
[read the full story...]Mental health needs of people with learning disabilities – are mental health nurses prepared?
The mental health needs of people with learning disabilities may be overlooked.
In this blog, Paula Hopes looks at review of literature, which sets out to discover how prepared mental health nurses are to respond to these needs.
[read the full story...]Steps towards employment for disabled people: What works?
In this blog, Gerry Bennison offers an analysis of and perspectives on a study of employment programmes for people with learning disabilities or mental health problems.
[read the full story...]Mental health recovery: does training staff help?
John Baker summarises the REFOCUS RCT, which looks at supporting recovery in psychosis patients through care by community-based adult mental health teams.
[read the full story...]Mental Health First Aid improves knowledge, reduces stigma and makes people more likely to offer support
Sarah Knowles summarises a recent meta-analysis of Mental Health First Aid, which claims to be the first study to quantitatively synthesise the evidence in this field.
[read the full story...]Peer-led self-management for mental health: impressive programme, not so sure about the research
Lucy Simons and Chris Sampson appraise a recent evaluation of peer-led self-management training for people with severe mental illness.
[read the full story...]Support worker attitudes a key influencer of outcomes for people with learning disabilities, but new scales needed to measure these
Although the research base is small, it does strongly suggest that the attitudes of support workers can be key influencers of outcomes for people with learning disabilities and this would seem to be an entirely reasonable assumption. Here, Louise Phillips looks at a study which set out to not only explore the attitudes of a number of support workers in one service, but also to consider whether existing attitude measurement scales capture the range of attitudes expressed.
[read the full story...]Relationship training for children and family practitioners: does it work?
Martin Webber looks at a rare social work randomised controlled trial (RCT) on relationship training for practitioners working with children and families and finds that even findings from a study using ‘gold standard’ research methodology have to be carefully examined for reliability.
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