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
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/