An Opportunity for Recovery: Social Work in Emergency Mental Health - Ep. 76
The Social Work Stories Podcast
Is She in a Bikini?
I really like the use of just normal assessment skills. I think he got a sense of how she was speaking, what her thoughts were like. And then there was a conversation with the mum. So lots of levels, just in the assessment process. He wasn't just thinking about the obvious risk factors - is she unsafe to herself or to other people? What does the history tell him about that? But he was also thinking about things like, like you say, she's in a bikini, it's the middle of winter. If we discharge her now, we're discharging her to the streets to a seasonally unsafe situation. Yeah. It's not a judgement about the bikini, it
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