trauma-informed approaches – A New Vision for Mental Health

The Neuroplastic Narrative in the classroom

Author: Editorial 1st December 2023 0 Comments

This report has been published by the Critical Mental Health Nurses’ Network. It begins: “The following is a report of a UK-based student mental health nurse discussion group. … It was part of the work of a final-year university module called…
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Adverse childhood experiences, Critical Mental Health Nurses’ Network, evolutionary biology, Haley Peckham, mental health nurses, Neuroplastic Narrative, neuroplasticity, New Approaches, trauma-informed approaches

Trauma informed care on acute inpatient units: reducing self harm and restrictive practices

Author: Editorial 19th October 2023 0 Comments

This research article by Kirsten Lawson has been published on The Mental Elf website. It begins: “The NHS Long Term Plan (2019) is now 4 years old and within it there was laid out a 10-year plan for mental health services to be…
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acute inpatient psychiatric units, inpatient mental health units, Kirsten Lawson, Power Threat Meaning Framework, Team Formulation and Psychological Stabilisation intervention, The Mental Elf, trauma, trauma-informed approaches

Indicative Trauma Impact Manual ITIM: ITIM for Professionals

Author: Editorial 17th July 2023 1 Comment

This manual – written by Jessica Taylor and Jaimi Shrive – is now available for purchase. The publishers say: “A non-diagnostic, trauma-informed guide to emotion, thought, and behaviour. This must-have manual presents the first trauma-informed, non-diagnostic alternative to other manuals of…
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anti-oppressive practice, books, Jaimi Shrive, Jessica Taylor, New Approaches, non-diagnostic approaches, trauma, trauma-informed approaches, victim focus

The Biases of Western Medicine | Gabor Maté, MD

Author: Editorial 1st February 2023 0 Comments

This transcript of a talk by Dr. Gabor Maté has been published by Sustainable Human . It begins: “In the realm of child development, I just wish we’d actually look at the evidence. But we don’t. I worked in family practice for…
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ADHD, biomedical model, children and adolescents, Gabor Maté, Mad in America, Sustainable Human, trauma-informed approaches, videos

Indicative Trauma Impact Manual 2023

Author: Editorial 31st October 2022 0 Comments

This manual is currently on pre-order, with a release date of 1st March 2023. The publishers say: “A non-diagnostic, trauma-informed guide to emotion, thought, and behaviour. This must-have manual presents the first trauma-informed, non-diagnostic alternative to other manuals of mental health…
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anti-oppressive practice, books, New Approaches, non-diagnostic approaches, trauma, trauma-informed approaches, victim focus

Skepticism, Psychosis, and Hallucinations as Evidence for Our Beliefs

Author: Editorial 31st January 2022 0 Comments

This essay by Bradley Astra Aldridge has been published on the website of the BC Hearing Voices Network. It begins: “Sextus Empiricus was a physician and ancient philosopher who argued that human beings should be suspicious of our capacity for knowledge,…
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Bradley Astra Aldridge, Bradley Astra Aldridge has been published on the website of the BC Hearing Voices Network, enactive psychiatry, hearing voices, objectivity, schizophrenia, subjectivity, trauma-informed approaches

Trauma-informed practice: a paradigm shift in the education of mental health nurses

Author: Editorial 4th March 2021 0 Comments

“The emphasis is on what has happened to the person instead of what is wrong with the person.” This article has been co-authored by Jennifer Young, James Taylor, Brodie Paterson, Ivor Smith and Sandy McComish. It has been published in Mental…
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mental health nurses, Mental Health Practice, RCNi, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, trauma, trauma-informed approaches, University of Stirling

Children Who Witness Violence at Home

Author: Editorial 28th February 2020 0 Comments

“Interpersonal violence, especially violence experienced by children, is the largest single preventable cause of mental illness.”Steve Sharfstein, 2006. In De-Medicalising Misery: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition , Chapter 9 – Children Who Witness Violence at Home – is written by clinical psychologist Arlene Vetere. It begins: “The…
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Arlene Vetere, books, children and adolescents, domestic violence, psychiatry, trauma, trauma-informed approaches, violence

Not Crazy: You May Not Be Mentally Ill

Author: Editorial 31st May 2018 0 Comments

The publishers of this 2011 book (by Charles L. Whitfield) say: “… It exposes the pseudo-science behind modern biological psychiatry that misdiagnoses people who have painful emotional, psychological and behavioral symptoms as being ‘mentally ill’ and then mistreats them with…
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American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association, books, Charles Whitfield, Childhood trauma, National Alliance on Mental Illness, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, trauma, trauma-informed approaches

Searching for a Rose Garden: challenging psychiatry, fostering mad studies

Author: admin 30th June 2017 0 Comments

The publishers ( PCCS Books , 2016) of Searching for a Rose Garden describe it as “an incisive critique of all that is unhelpful about sanestream understandings of and responses to mental distress. Drawing on world-wide survivor activism and scholarship, it explores…
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books, Clients & Patients, Mad Studies, madness, paradigm shift, peer support, psychiatry, survivors, trauma-informed approaches