6 basic rights outlined in the Charter… …to communication/partnership with health professionals …to comprehensive assessment and treatment planning …to accessible, high quality, fully funded, specialised care …to respectful, fully-informed, age-appropriate, safe levels of care …to carers to be informed, valued and respected as a treatment resource …of carers to accessible, appropriate support and education resources Without good communication and coordination of support, care…
Writing – poetry
‘Pathways’, published 2005 by Koo Poetry Press, Aberdeen-based publishers specialising in poetry – a small collection of poems on the theme of love and life, laughter and loss. Written in and around the north-east of Scotland, the land, sea and shore as well as the people feature strongly. A small flavour from ‘Pathways’ – Winter Sunset at the Tore of Troup Earth held…
Educational materials
‘Fyvie Castle – its Life and Legends’ is an educational pack, published 1997 by National Trust for Scotland and Aberdeenshire Council – a fascinating project which I was asked to coordinate and co-wrote…and which particularly triggered my interest in the dramatic changes over the 20th century. Heating, lighting, plumbing, travel and transport, food, cooking, shopping, communications, medicine and health – every single aspect of life…
Seattle to California 08
A really great trip in May 08 to the USA west coast included attending International Conference for Eating Disorders (See page on work in eating disorders) followed by a train travel to see the country from Seattle to Napa California where I visited my friends Doris and Tom Smeltzer and enjoyed wonderful days watching the hummingbirds and butterflies, listening to the warm wind moving the…
New web magazine
My main non-fiction writing project currently is putting together materials for www.workingtogethercare.com – a new web magazine on building constructive communication… There are now well over 100 articles on this site, on Communication, Information, Resources, Confidentiality, Carer Survival. The website is based on and developed from my book ‘Families, Carers and Professionals: Building Constructive Conversations’, published 2007 by John Wiley and Sons – written from…
Workshops
All workshops are based on professional experience – as a teacher and head teacher supporting troubled children and their families was a very important part of my work; on personal experience as a main family carer when my adult daughter developed anorexia nervosa, binge/purge type; plus over the years talking to hundreds, possibly thousands, of other family members on national and local tel support lines…
Book – Skills-based caring …
Skills based Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder: the New Maudsley Method’ by Professor Janet Treasure, Gráinne Smith, Anna Crane, published by Routledge, June 2007. (Now available in Japanese as well as English!) A practical book for family and other informal carers, based on a wealth of experience and research by a team of world renowned professional Janet Treasure , Guy’s Hospital,…