The Neuroplastic Narrative in the classroom
trauma-informed approaches
Trauma informed care on acute inpatient units: reducing self harm and restrictive practices
This research article by Kirsten Lawson has been published on The Mental Elf website. It begins: “The NHS Long Term Plan (2019) is now 4 years old and within it there was laid out a 10-year plan for mental health services to be…
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Indicative Trauma Impact Manual ITIM: ITIM for Professionals
This manual – written by Jessica Taylor and Jaimi Shrive – is now available for purchase. The publishers say: “A non-diagnostic, trauma-informed guide to emotion, thought, and behaviour. This must-have manual presents the first trauma-informed, non-diagnostic alternative to other manuals of…
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The Biases of Western Medicine | Gabor Maté, MD
This transcript of a talk by Dr. Gabor Maté has been published by Sustainable Human . It begins: “In the realm of child development, I just wish we’d actually look at the evidence. But we don’t. I worked in family practice for…
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Indicative Trauma Impact Manual 2023
This manual is currently on pre-order, with a release date of 1st March 2023. The publishers say: “A non-diagnostic, trauma-informed guide to emotion, thought, and behaviour. This must-have manual presents the first trauma-informed, non-diagnostic alternative to other manuals of mental health…
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Skepticism, Psychosis, and Hallucinations as Evidence for Our Beliefs
Trauma-informed practice: a paradigm shift in the education of mental health nurses
Children Who Witness Violence at Home
“Interpersonal violence, especially violence experienced by children, is the largest single preventable cause of mental illness.”Steve Sharfstein, 2006. In De-Medicalising Misery: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition , Chapter 9 – Children Who Witness Violence at Home – is written by clinical psychologist Arlene Vetere. It begins: “The…
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Not Crazy: You May Not Be Mentally Ill
The publishers of this 2011 book (by Charles L. Whitfield) say: “… It exposes the pseudo-science behind modern biological psychiatry that misdiagnoses people who have painful emotional, psychological and behavioral symptoms as being ‘mentally ill’ and then mistreats them with…
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Searching for a Rose Garden: challenging psychiatry, fostering mad studies
The publishers ( PCCS Books , 2016) of Searching for a Rose Garden describe it as “an incisive critique of all that is unhelpful about sanestream understandings of and responses to mental distress. Drawing on world-wide survivor activism and scholarship, it explores…
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