The Dementia Care Training Library is a unique modular suite of person-centred, dementia-specific content designed to provide everything required for professionals working in relevant care services to deliver authoritative in-house training.
A Complete Resource for Developing Person-Centred Skills and Approaches
The Dementia Care Training Library offers distinctive, contemporary and expandable training materials on dementia specific topics relating to the learning needs of staff in care environments. The Starter Pack provides the library's binder, along with core content on the lived experience of dementia and dealing with challenging behaviour.
A Handbook for Health and Social Care Professionals, Service Users and Carers
A ground-breaking handbook exploring the nature of spirituality and its relevance to the mental health and well-being of people coming into contact with health, social care, education, and allied support services.
A Trauma-informed Approach to Caring for People with a Personality Disorder and an Intellectual Disability
This training manual introduces trauma informed approaches to caring for people who have both a personality disorder and an intellectual disability. The CaPDID training is a short course designed for staff without any specific expertise in mental health or psychotherapy, such as care home staff, learning disability nurses or managers.
Shows mental health providers how to expand their practice in order to treat older adults. Chapters describe tools and techniques for assessing and treating common conditions that practitioners encounter when working with older adults, including depression, anxiety, cognitive impairment, and prescription drug misuse.
This reflective and evidence-based book will equip students as well as professionals who work with people with learning disabilities in primary, secondary and specialist healthcare settings, with the knowledge and skills they need to work effectively with people with learning disabilities. Chapters - written by leading academics and practitioners in the learning disabilities field - examine and discuss core issues, while a case-study approach ensures a solid grounding in practical skills. This practical element is further reinforced by the inclusion of service-user and practitioner 'voices', whose lived experiences make the book even more engaging, as well as a range of reflective exercises and regular opportunities for readers to self-audit their learning. Reflecting the multi-professional nature of services for people with learning disabilities, this book will help practitioners and students make a real difference to the lives of people with learning disabilities who access health and social care environments.
The Dementia Care Training Library is a unique modular suite of person-centred, dementia-specific content designed to provide everything required for professionals working in relevant care services to deliver authoritative in-house training.
Guides readers through the full process of treating suicidal patients, from screening to relapse prevention, using effective, research-informed interventions. Sam Knapp explains suicidal behaviour through ideation to action theories of suicide, and argues for the application of principle based ethics when making treatment decisions.
Presents a practical, systematic decision-making model based on positive ethics that practitioners can use to address conflicting roles and responsibilities, balance competing ethical and legal requirements, and maintain high standards of ethical practice and professional competence.
