On Friday I was listening to Radio 5 live in the morning and happened upon an interesting show concerning the diagnoses of mental disorders. The 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM 5) has thrown into sharp relief the problematic nature of diagnosing mental illness.
The show featured psychologists, patients and psychiatrists and centred on the power relationship between the 'diagnoser' and the 'diagnosee'. It also talked about how it is for social workers to walk the line between protecting the public and protecting the individual who may have a serious diagnosis.
Whilst the show does feature other items besides mental health and diagnosis, I really do think it's worth a listen.
It'll be available until May 23rd and the show is here.
Showing posts with label radio 5. Show all posts
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Monday, 20 May 2013
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Radio programme on Multi-agency Safeguarding Hubs
I'm a Radio 4 kinda guy.
This is hardly a revelation as I'm always pushing their output in your direction.
However, yesterday morning whilst working at home I heard an episode of Victoria Derbyshire's Radio 5 programme, and I'm very glad I did too. Amongst all the usual travel updates and news there was a long report on the development of Multi-agency Safeguarding Hubs (MASH makes such a good acronym in this case) which I'd read a little about, but didn't really know how it was supposed to work.
The programme sat in with a unit and looked at how it was created to improve communication between all the different social agencies and departments. Because it's on iplayer the programme will disappear in 6 days, but you can always download it to keep it for longer.
You can listen or download from here.
This is hardly a revelation as I'm always pushing their output in your direction.
However, yesterday morning whilst working at home I heard an episode of Victoria Derbyshire's Radio 5 programme, and I'm very glad I did too. Amongst all the usual travel updates and news there was a long report on the development of Multi-agency Safeguarding Hubs (MASH makes such a good acronym in this case) which I'd read a little about, but didn't really know how it was supposed to work.
The programme sat in with a unit and looked at how it was created to improve communication between all the different social agencies and departments. Because it's on iplayer the programme will disappear in 6 days, but you can always download it to keep it for longer.
You can listen or download from here.
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