Are you...
• working in the field of psychiatric training and needing service user input?
• teaching at a school, college or university
and looking for a different angle on mental health?
Stop Paddling provides service user input for the training
of students of the caring professions, such as nurses and social workers.
Discussions regarding bipolar disorder should initially be by email. Discussion by phone is possible following contact by email.
Testimonial:
Forwarded by senior social worker affiliated to Reading University. February 2005
Roger, your session on 28.2 was very well received by students. I asked them to score your session in between 1 and 5 when 5 is high. From 18 people who rated your session, 15 scored it 5, two 4, and one 3. Excellent ratings! Specific comments were as follows:
Service user’s lecture was very interesting.
Service user’s perspective was fantastic – really honest.
Service user lecture was really useful.
Roger talking about bi-polar was excellent.
Session taken by a bi-polar sufferer was particularly interesting and useful.
The service user’s insight made it easier to relate to the material and made it ‘real’.
Service user’s perspective was interesting to hear about the reality of having a mental health problem rather than just a text-book description.
I really enjoyed different segments of the ‘mania and depression’ talk.
Roger gave a very interesting and informative account of manic depression.
It was extremely useful to have the service user’s perspective – I hung on his every word!
Example of course that `carers' very much appreciate: Recovery and WRAP , Miracle and Introduction to Bipolar
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