Animals quite often figure in a social worker’s day to day work. This is because of Sec.48 of the National Assistance Act 1948, which states...

After the frippery of the last two posts, here is a hefty New Year analysis of Community Treatment Orders, complete with references and tast...

People often ask me if I run The Masked AMHP Blog all on my own. Well, blogs don’t maintain themselves. As well as having to write the actua...

Are you mad, or just a sandwich short of a picnic? Are you completely sparko-balarmey, or just a bit swivel-eyed? Find out today with the Ma...

Anorexia Nervosa is a fairly common mental disorder; the most common age of onset is 10-19 years of age; nine out of ten patients are female...

I wrote about Perdita in my post “The Section 2 That Wasn’t” in January 2010. She has a diagnosis of Emotionally Unstable Personality Disord...

Members of the public often become very alarmed and even affronted and incensed about people in the community who chose to live in unusually...