Top Tips for Understanding the Importance of Support and Supervision
Support and supervision are not an optional extra. They are the foundation for building trust, clarity and consistency in teams.
Author: Mike Phillips
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Top Tips for Understanding Vision, Mission and Values in Dementia Care
Vision, mission and values are often written down but not always brought to life. In dementia care, they are not abstract ideas.
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Top Tips for How Wellbeing is Shaped by How Work is Organised
Mental Health Awareness Week is an opportunity to look at how work is organised, not just how people cope.
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Top Tips for Why Inclusion Is More than Awareness
Dementia Action Week challenges us to move beyond awareness and ask what inclusion looks like in practice, across services, communities and everyday encounters.
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Top Tips for Support Mental Health Without Becoming a Therapist
Mental Health Awareness Week is a good time to remind ourselves that we can be supportive without taking on roles we are not trained for.
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Top Tips for Working Alongside Families and Unpaid Carers
During Dementia Action Week, it is important to recognise carers not simply as helpers, but as people who need understanding, partnership and support in their own right.
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Top Tips for Psychological Safety is a Mental Health Issue
Psychological safety is not a “nice to have”. It plays a vital role in protecting mental health and supporting collaboration.
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Top Tips for Seeing the Person beyond the Dementia
When dementia becomes the dominant lens, people risk being treated as a set of symptoms rather than as individuals with lives, histories and agency.
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Oi, Queer! You’re Dead
“Oi, Queer… those were the words shouted at me by a group of around six men when I was 23. They chased me into a secluded mews near Earl’s Court. At least two of them were carrying baseball bats.
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Top Tips for Why Mental Health Is an Issue for All of Us
Mental Health Awareness Week offers a chance to reframe mental health as something created, supported or undermined collectively, not carried by individuals alone.
