4. Values-based practice and the Ten ESCs
The 10 Pointers to good process
It is easier to understand and remember the 10 pointers to good process if you apply them to a real situation. And they can be linked with the Ten ESCs. The next activity will help you to do this.
Read this account carefully and then complete the activity that follows.
When you have completed this activity you may like to look at the example below in the table ‘Mila’s account – example feedback’.
Mila’s account
‘Basically I’ve had a shit life. I had a hell of a childhood with abuse, racism and foster care. I came into services when I was 11 years old. I think
it must have been because I was harming myself pretty badly by then. Being part of child mental health services wasn’t too bad – they pissed me off sometimes
but I generally got the feeling they wanted to help me, it was just so difficult. But when I was 18 years old they moved me into adult services and I had my
first admission on an adult ward. My god, what a shock – they looked at me as if I was a criminal. I felt they hated me, saw me as a time waster stopping all
the people who were really ill from getting help. I know I was difficult; I was just all over the place, my moods seemed so extreme. I felt wretched all the
time and nobody seemed to understand. They kept telling me to stop being so attention-seeking and take some responsibility for myself. But I just felt like
exploding all the time and the more they didn’t like me and ignored me the more I wanted to hurt myself and the more they said I was attention-seeking. No
one told me I had been diagnosed as having a personality disorder – I don’t know if they treated me the way they did because of how I behaved or because they
had been told my diagnosis. I just know it was a shit time and no one seemed happy, me or them.’
Please complete activity 4.3 in your learning log.
Once you have completed activity 4.3 click through to the next slide.