Approved Mental Health Professionals: Teamwork, ‘Safety Nets’ and ‘Buckling Under’ In England and Wales, Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) have the ultimate responsibility, based on doctors’ medical recommendations, for deciding to detain a person, without consent, und...

Hi Bluesky friends and colleagues 👋🏻. I'm starting here with my new journal article out today: AMHPs: Teamwork, 'Safety Nets' and 'Buckling Under'.

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‘We are quite a “can anyone help me?” kind of team’: the role of the team as secure base in social workers’ sensemaking There is recognition that teams act as a locus for the sensemaking activity that underpins social workers’ judgement. Research has highlighted that teams also provide emotional support for practiti...

For anyone who might be interested, my latest journal article is out now. It's on social workers' sensemaking and the team as secure base. It's open access and will hopefully be of interest to practitioners as well as academics. #AcademicSky #SocialWorkSky

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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We’re holding another of these on Monday—if you’re a social worker, now’s your chance to shape our thinking about the future of renewals and CPD www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/registrati....

Registration Renewal and Reimagining CPD workshops Tell us about your experiences and views of renewing your registration and carrying out continuing professional development (CPD).

First post on BlueSky! Calling all social workers, we still have spaces on our listening event about registration renewal and CPD - join us this Wednesday, sign up here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/registrati...

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