Funding social care: what service users say

Funding social care: what service users say  Joseph Rowntree, March 2010 Click on the title above to access the full-text of this resource Abstract: Service users often aren’t involved in discussions about social care funding, yet they will be most affected by any changes to the current failing system. In 2009, 18 adult social care [...]

A mentor portfolio model for ensuring fitness for practice

A mentor portfolio model for ensuring fitness for practice, Nursing Management – UK, 2010 Mar; 16 (10): 28-31 Jones, S Abstract: The revised Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) (2008) Standards to Support Learning and Assessment in Practice aim to support mentors in ensuring that new registrants are fit for practice. The standards also include criteria [...]

Youth Therapist Strategies to Enhance Client Homework Completion

Youth Therapist Strategies to Enhance Client Homework Completion, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, May 2010, Volume 15 Issue 2, Pages 103 - 109 Carolyn Houlding Abstract: Background: This study examined strategies youth therapists use to attempt to enhance their clients’ therapeutic homework completion. Method: Thirty-two youth mental health therapists participated. All participants completed a ‘Follow-Through Strategy’ survey and 13 also participated in [...]