Mental health awareness: Video learning resources
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Mental health awareness in adult social care is essential for ensuring that the care and support that people receive is holistic and person-centred. These resources can help you to consider what effective support might look like and how the effect of mental health stigma can be seen in everyday interactions.
Introduction
Mental health awareness in social care is essential for ensuring that the care and support that people receive is holistic and person-centred. These resources can help you to consider what effective support might look like and how the effect of mental health stigma can be seen in everyday interactions.
The videos below outline:
- The concept and definitions of good mental health.
- A summary of mental health treatment and the C.H.E.C.K. mnemonic.
- How we can best support practitioners with whose life experience of includes social work involvement in their own family lives.
The films
What is good mental health?
Jo Holloway-Green explores the concept and definitions of good mental health.
Challenging mental health language and stigma
Jo Holloway-Green examines the impact of negative language when working with people living with mental health.
Responding to mental health
Jo Holloway-Green summarises how we can support mental health.
Professional Standards
PQS:KSS - Person-centred practice | The role of social workers | Supervision, critical analysis and reflection | Assuring good social work practice and development
CQC - Caring | Effective | Responsive | Safe
PCF - Knowledge | Intervention and skills
RCOT - Develop intervention | Service users
Person-centred approaches to adult mental health
Reflecting on how to keep the person at the centre of support in the context of mental health.
Embedding trauma-informed approaches in adult social care: Frontline Briefing (2019)
We are all impacted by our past experiences, which can have a lasting effect on the way we view and experience the world. This Frontline Briefing will develop the capacity of practitioners to understand how complex trauma affects people. Practitioners reading this publication will build their confidence in applying trauma-informed approaches in their work with people across the life course.
Person-centred approaches to adult mental health: Frontline Briefing (2018)
Person-centred care and support is a fundamental principle within adult social care. This Frontline Briefing explores how this can be applied in mental health settings and services, using research and evidence to support practitioners in seeing the person not the diagnosis.