The call came from the local police. They had a 19 year old male in the cells on a Sec.136. He had been found walking the streets in the mid...

Fast forward to 1981. After two years working as an unqualified generic social worker I did a two year Certificate of Qualification in Socia...

It was 1976. I had my first job as an unqualified social worker (most social workers were unqualified in those days) in an area office with ...

I always find it fascinating how certain forms of dementia can produce the most vivid and outlandish of hallucinations in older people. One ...

The phone rang. “Hi there, it’s Shirley Adams. I’m ringing about Leroy. I think we may need to section him.” I knew Shirley. She was the con...

AMHP’s and other mental health professionals use the word “section” all the time when referring to someone being detained under the Mental H...

I’d barely had time to get into work and make myself a coffee when I received a request for a MHA assessment. The GP was at the patient’s ho...