The importance of a place called home: connection, loss, and hope.
In my patch of the world it’s a beautiful spring day. But for the people of Ukraine things are bleak. A visit to the cemetery where Tim...
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Caroline Aldridge - social worker, author, speaker, trainer and practice educator.
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The Pit of Inaction: My Thoughts
Many of us are frustrated by the way large organisations seem to get stuck. Even though people at every level are working really hard,...
Threads of love: From He Died Waiting to They Died Waiting (and beyond)
It’s a year since He Died Waiting: Learning the lessons – a bereaved mother’s view of mental health service was launched. In this blog, I...
Values-driven practice (explained using Quilt Theory).
If you are wondering what values-driven practice might look like, or what Quilt Theory is, and how these apply ideas to social work (or...
Untangling the threads: Using a stitched reflective journal to make sense of things.
Creativity is a higher order thinking skill, textile crafts are great ways of processing feelings, and reflective journals are a useful...
'What about me?’ Author-researcher-insider-outsider-imposter conundrum
All professionals in health, social care, or education, have personal lives and experiences that influence who their values and practice....
Last night I made a pledge... A review of the He Died Waiting book launch.
On the 11th February 2021, the University of Essex Social Work and Social Justice department and the charity, Mental Health Time for...
Values-based practice - Using the book, He Died Waiting, as a learning tool
The book, He Died Waiting: Learning the lessons - a bereaved mother's view of mental health services by Caroline Aldridge (2020), and...
He Died Waiting: Book Review
Book review, by Stephanie Hassanali (nurse and clinical nurse trainer), of He Died Waiting: Learning the lessons – a bereaved mother’s...
He Died Waiting: A book with a purpose
In this blog, I shall tell you about my book that I have written in the hope of changing hearts, minds, and practice. I am pretty excited...