Emergency & Major Incident Mental Health Researcher & Healthcare Strategist fascinated by Psychosocial Resilience. Presidential Lead For Disasters RCPsych.
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Here is the front cover of my latest book with Verity Kemp, Keith Porter, Tim Healing and John Drury.
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Cambrian Coast Express teapawt.net/i/broadcasts/1dRKZlOyn…
I agree. I am concerned about approaches that are based on ‘teaching’ resilience; I worry that the evidence about group membership is not sufficiently incorporated.
Nurse burnout: why the term ‘resilience’ may do more harm than good
'As a nurse lecturer I refuse to teach students in preregistration nursing courses how to be more resilient'
The ‘supernurse’ culture puts too much responsibility on staff – argues @ora_dall
A couple of really busy days: an important opportunity yesterday to familiarise Grade 8 nurses in Bristol and SE Wales with Peer Support. Such able and inspiring people! And today, the launch of the One Voice initiative with the stalwart help of Kings Fund.
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A fantastic collaboration between @AneurinBevanUHB & @NorthBristolNHS discussing #peersupport today @ProfRJWWilliams @veritycycles @MaddockMorwenna @natalie_ferris @armstrongduff @monk_su @HBlanchardDoN @LindaAl28284726 – at Bristol, England
Our book ‘Social Scaffolding’ has made it onto the 2020 CHOICE list of Outstanding Academic Titles (selected for overall excellence, importance, originality, distinctiveness & value). This award is a fantastic honour and I am very grateful to fantastic colleagues for their work!
Lucie, this sounds great! Please can you let me know more about what you know about rumination.
Ready for my next online conference but this time I'm presenting! With the @BPSOfficial and Society of Occupational Medicine I'll be talking about Rumination/switching off from work and Covid-19 #occupationalpsychology #phdchat
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Ready for my next online conference but this time I'm presenting! With the @BPSOfficial and Society of Occupational Medicine I'll be talking about Rumination/switching off from work and Covid-19 #occupationalpsychology #phdchat
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I see that the government have seen fit to revive the label “the worried well” as a way of shaming people. I thought this horrible phrase had disappeared. Hopefully it will fade away again. – at South East, England
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A lovely evening walk to take the day off. Time to catch up with those little snippets of news in family land that ground me. What’s your wellbeing plan for balance? #care4nhspeople – at Welford-on-Avon, England
Thank you so much Wendy for all you have done and for a fabulous presidency! Enjoy your day.
My last day as President of @rcpsych. Up early to put finishing touches to my report for the AGM. Hand over to @DrAdrianJames at 5pm today.
Resilience is rarely ‘bouncing back’ - so, thank you Evangelos for pointing out this piece.
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I agree! That is why we wrote and published our book, Social Scaffolding (Cambridge University Press).
Social psychiatry could stem the rising tide of mental illness via @TC_Africa theconversation.com/social-p…
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Inequalities and Covid-19. On P5 of this Commentary, I spell out three consequences of structural racism in the US: police killings of black men, economic inequality, health inequality. Structural racism is harming BAME groups in the UK. Our police don't kill, but they do target.
Check out the latest edition of Commentary, now available online, as well as our specially commissioned cover (by artist @Matt_Kettell) celebrating the work of our frontline members and fellows.
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Out on my bike today and that is what our English city looked like. Greatly reduced levels of social distancing, people meeting with their friends, sharing cars etc.
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Thanks for this conversation. It’s very helpful. I am very concerned about the impact of COVID-19 but also about the legacy problems that stem from years of problems for healthcare staff. I have been asked by the Editor in Chief to commission a journal paper about this.
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We need high levels of competency but also the humanity and personal skills to make people-centred judgments and the sensitivity to create partnerships with people and apply these capabilities well. That’s why I prefer capabilities to competencies.
The competency based approach to healthcare misses the complexity and the critical thinking that is essential to professional working, argue @maxwele2 and @alisonleary1. In such systems, "there is less and less value attached to professional expertise" ow.ly/1OiA50zQdhF
