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Alicia Wood
@aliciawood.bsky.social
Trainer, writer, consultant. Interested in art, human rights, learning disability, mental health and autism. Get in touch if you need brilliant online neuroaffirming autism training. Neurodivergent. Asturias, Spain.
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This grim article shows why institutionalised abuse of people with learning disabilities & autistic citizens drags on. Evidence is clear: long term segregation is harmful. This is a squalid example of a profession protecting its own back & not caring about patients www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Long-term segregation and seclusion for people with an intellectual disability and/or autism in hospitals: critique of the current state of affairs | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core
Long-term segregation and seclusion for people with an intellectual disability and/or autism in hospitals: critique of the current state of affairs
www.cambridge.org
December 11, 2024 at 8:35 PM
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Today, a quick thread on the vital
www.gov.uk/government/p... and on the very recent response from some Psychiatrists & colleagues, who seems to have misunderstood what it says and means/
Baroness Hollins' final report: My heart breaks - solitary confinement in hospital has no therapeutic benefit for people with a learning disability and autistic people
www.gov.uk
December 6, 2024 at 9:29 AM
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I fully stand by @BaronessHollins & this report
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Baroness Hollins' final report: My heart breaks - solitary confinement in hospital has no therapeutic benefit for people with a learning disability and autistic people

www.gov.uk/government/p...
Baroness Hollins' final report: My heart breaks - solitary confinement in hospital has no therapeutic benefit for people with a learning disability and autistic people
www.gov.uk
December 7, 2024 at 5:33 AM
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'A lot of hope out there. More than hope, there's possibility' youtube.com/shorts/CZHdK...
Growing our power #SocialCareFuture
YouTube video by #SocialCareFuture
youtube.com
November 18, 2024 at 8:38 AM
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Good to see this attempt to restrain the private firms profiteering from dire children’s social care.

So when will those fat cats and offshore financiers profiteering from abusive and third-rate psychiatric services see a similar crackdown?

www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2024 at 7:38 AM
Trying to find the people I followed in the other place. Used this- it´s a bit clunky if you followed lots of people, but still helpful dmuth.medium.com/how-to-migra...
How to Migrate Follows and Blocks from Twitter to Bluesky
If you’re like me, and you’ve had just about enough of being on Twitter and would like to move to Bluesky, there’s a way to take your…
dmuth.medium.com
November 17, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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We see the need for an approach to supporting #autistic people that is, by principle, grounded in acceptance of the autistic diversity of being and informed by autistic experience, which we elaborate on in this article, led by @elainemcgreevy.bsky.social +moi
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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November 17, 2024 at 4:16 PM