Resources

 

 

Mentalising

 

 

Staff concerns

 

 

Boundaries

 

 

Top tips

 

• Phrase books, dictionaries in the minority languages most used by patients
• Point It Traveller’s Language Kit by Dieter Graf or the similar Wordless Travel Book by Jonathan Meader, costing about a fiver they’re a bargain, or as we say in Yiddish, a metsiyah

 

Distressedor Depressed Patients

 

 

Anxiety

• Handbook – Mental Health First Aid England

 

Psychosis

• Psychological Perspectives on Distress and Unusual Experiences, by Coles S and Houghton P, 2012
• The abandoned illness: a report from the Schizophrenia Commission,2012 www.rethink.org
• The traumatic neurodevelopmental model of psychosis revisited, by Read J, Fosse R, Moskowitz A, Perry B, 2014
• Beyond Belief, by Tamasin Knight, 2009

 

Dementia

• VERA framework communicating with people who have dementia, by Blackhall A et al, Nursing Standard 26, 10, 35-39

 

 

Borderline Personality Disorder

• Handbook of Mentalization Based Treatment ed Jon Allen, Peter Fonagy www.mentalising.com

 

 

People with learning disabilities

 

Leadership

• If Disney Ran Your Hospital – Fred Lee

 

Star Wards stuff

• Wardipedia web site – A World of Ward Knowledge: http://www.wardipedia.org/
• Ward Stars – Applauding HCAs – the heart of care: http://wardstars.org

 

Other great resources

• Keeping everyone as safe as possible is a basic goal for any community. Keeping everyone as safe as possible also takes thought and effort: http://www.safewards.net/