Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) e-learning course

Part of e-Learning courses

e-Learning course raising awareness of child sexual exploitation for health, social care, education and other frontline staff. Provides basic knowledge and skills to identify and respond to child sexual exploitation.

Managing risk, minimising restraint elearning

Part of e-Learning courses

e-Learning course for social care staff exploring definitions, thoughts and ideas about the use of restraint and how to minimise it.

Recognising and preventing delirium

This quick guide from NICE and SCIE will help care home managers and their staff to recognise the symptoms of delirium and to understand what they can do to prevent it.

Personal budgets: risk enablement and mental health

This film for adult social care commissioners and staff showcases the work of Stockport Council and Pennine Care NHS Trust. It established a panel for discussing final support plans for people considered to be at risk as part of its risk enablement strategy for personal budgets and mental health.

Parental mental health and families: introducing the family model

Part of e-Learning courses

This e-learning module introduces the Family Model, a conceptual framework that can help consider the parent, the child and the whole family when working with families with a parent with mental health problems. First it looks at how some of the common risks and stressors can prevent the needs of family members being met. It also looks at how the presence of protective factors and appropriate resources can influence positive outcomes. The four sections of module look at: the family model; the organisational context; the impact of inequalities; and risk, stressors and protective factors. A list of references, useful resources and a glossary is included.

User involvement in adult safeguarding

This At a glance briefing looks at ways of involving people who use services in adult safeguarding at an individual level and at a strategic level.

Sexual, reproductive and mental health: unprotected and risky sex

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This e-learning resource on unprotected and risky sex is one of 8 modules developed to help mental health professionals deal with aspects of sexual and reproductive health in the context of mental illness. The module covers safe and unsafe sex, including condom use and barriers to using condoms, the diversity of sexual practices, sex and the law.

Dementia e-learning: what causes dementia?

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One of a series of e-learning resources from the Open Dementia e-learning programme which aims provides a general introduction to the dementia and the experience of living with dementia. This module covers: the different types of dementia and the key characteristics of each; the different areas of the brain and how dementia affects these areas; and factors that are known to increase or lessen the risk of dementia. This resource contains audio and video.

SCIE research briefing 27: factors that assist early identification of children in need in integrated or inter-agency settings

SCIE Research briefings

An introduction to the mental health of older people: common mental health problems amongst older people

Part of e-Learning courses

This learning object introduces you to some of the key facts and statistics about depression, dementia and long standing mental ill health. It explains who might be at risk of developing a mental illness as they grow older and why. It also includes information about people who have experienced serious mental illness such as schizophrenia throughout their lives and the main issues facing them as they age.