This Week in Mentalists – Last Chance to Nominate for the #TWIMAwards Edition

Hi all. The nominations for the This Week in Mentalists will close at the end of Thursday. You have until then to leave a comment on this blog post telling us your favourite mental health blogs and vlogs (note: you need to nominate at least two blogs or vlogs to be counted). The top three in each category will be passed through to the judging panel to pick winners, and the results announced just before Christmas. Several of the judges are esteemed bloggers in their own right. I think I’ll use this opportunity to take a peek at what some of them have been writing about this week. Mental Health Cop has some musings inspired by a Zen parable on the words, “We’ll see”. We see other intended consequences.  We have lost around 1,700 inpatient mental health since 2011 and then we learn that the NHS is concerned that the use of section 136 MHA by the police is rising.  Well, we have been asking the police to “get better at mental health” for some while and we’ve seen forces posting people to full-time positions, implementing training and now very active in areas where they were traditionally reactive.  And not all of that is getting it right, because all the cops working on it have three or four hours of mental health training and very little mental health law training.  So … we’ll see. We have deinsitutionalised our healthcare, only to find we now have to imprison more people with mental health problems than ever before, a good number of which...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - Category: Mental Illness Authors: Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs