'Out The Box' Radical Psycho-Social Thinking Relativistic Psychology & Psycho-Social Theory - Social Research, Education, Training & Consultancy
Welcome to the University of Life All that we know is by virtue of our senses and - all our senses, including the ones we ignore - our intuitive, integrated mental senses.
One of the areas which is closely allied to the primary issues that we dealing with, are the areas of Health Care and of Social Care. We in fact, broaden this to include aspects of Policing and other Community Services. This section has been moved to the Professional website, where it is more appropriately placed. If you want to follow the development of this section, please follow the link to the Professional Site. Otherwise, the following perspective and links on the left may be helpful enough.
Health & Social Care Services:
If someone has experience any kind of trauma; Physical, emotional, or psychological; they often turn to one of these services at some point. The service themselves are not representative of people's problems though. The person is still central to any service. This is a requirement of all Community Services, health & social, although specific services may be specialist for particular problems.
Most of the website is dedicated to following the 'individual' & their needs, responding to their questions & interests, including those expressed by others who are involved in their (your) support. We then follow the path that their 'problems' take us down. We try to remain 'Person Centred', but your problems may have to be dealt with by different specialist, however.
For this and other reasons, you will find material that may be of interest, and references to Health & Social Care, and related subjects, in other sections. We don't follow our rules blindly. We try and stick to the basic principles though. We will guide to to the critical information from the key pages and provide links to others sections that may be helpful, provide information and explanation, or allow to to gain a more fundamental, radical understanding.
I will try to maintain 'Key' links to these other sections to the Top Right of any page. This is quite a task. If you see any omission anywhere, please let me know. To the Right are brief descriptions of each potential contributor to Community Care, as it should be. These contain 'Text' Links to other information on the site, with additional external links in the text.
Health & Social Care is quite a broad area and we approach if from an essentially 'British', western, developed world, viewpoint. This is because it is the area and region I have the most experience of. Our interest is not just in these perspective though.
That said, this is an interactive & dynamic site, in that we welcome contributions from all groups and from all nations. The issues we deal with show up in various forms everywhere, even if they are identified differently and have different priorities. With the expectation that we will get wider contribution, the site will develop accordingly.
To the top left are the links to the broad subject of Health & Social Care, like the history of the development of the concept and the services, and outlines for the two broad areas of Health Care and Social Care. These. in turn, will have more detailed pages on each service.
As in most sections, there are a number of elements to most of the pages:
A general introduction that is, hopefully easy reading for most people, informative and guiding them towards what information they need and where it can be found, or suggestions to how they may best be able to find the information.
There is usually a more academic section, which is designed to assist interested Service Users and Family Carers and non-specialist Professional and Paid Carers, in understanding the nature & structure of services available
There is the often a more intellectual component, dealing with theory and practices, especially those which are very much alive at the time. This is there for anyone of that inclination, to better understand, or make a contribution to the understanding, of the problems and issues that arise in these area of work. Ethics is quite a regular one.
The next component is what I call 'Critical Perspectives'. This is an often sharp debate about 'critical issues' presented in a 'critical' way.
The final component, if it can be called that, are conclusions, reflections and questions that arise from the previous sections. The may result from ideas that come along, suggestions made that are not yet quite formulated into something that can stand for itself, in one of the other sections. Its a catch all.
Eventually, as each of these sections becomes large enough to stand in its own right, the arrangement then will be one where the general information is on the 'lead' page and the other sections have their own pages (listed to the top left of 'lead' page.
