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Wadebridge Memory Bank: a psychoeducation group
- Authors:
- BENDER Mike, CONSTANCE Gilly
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 13(1), January 2005, pp.28-30.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Describes setting up a long-term support and self-help group for people with dementia. In this first of 2 articles, they describe setting up and running the group, out-lining perceived benefits and research issues.
Wadebridge Memory Bank - three years on
- Authors:
- BENDER Mike, CONSTANCE Gilly, WILLIAMS Joy
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 15(3), May 2007, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
This article reports on the Wadebridge Memory Bank Group, a support and self-help group for people in North Cornwall diagnosed with dementia.
How to run a successful psychoeducation group
- Authors:
- BENDER Mike, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 13(2), March 2005, pp.19-22.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Looks at some of the issues involved in running a psychoeducation group for people with dementia. Provides a checklist of dos and don'ts when running the group. Features the Wadebridge Memory Bank psycheducation group.
Support for all involved in the companion's club
- Authors:
- BENDER Mike, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 7(1), January 1999, pp.29-31.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
In the first of two articles, the author describes how he, and his colleagues, set up a peer supervision group for staff engaged in long term supportive counselling with people who have dementia.
Shifting our focus from brain to mind
- Author:
- BENDER Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 6(1), January 1998, pp.12-14.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Very little research has focused on psychological approaches to dementia. Considers the barriers to progress and proposes a framework within which such research could develop.
Therapeutic groupwork for people cognitive losses: working with people with dementia
- Author:
- BENDER Mike
- Publisher:
- Speechmark
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 274p.
- Place of publication:
- Bicester
Showing how evidence is lacking to support the model of dementia as a disease, the book explores the possibilities of psychological intervention for remediable or enduring cognitive losses. The book aims to give advice to group leaders, medical and mental health practitioners working in the field, for the planning and implementation of groupwork for people with cognitive losses.
Involving people who have dementia in the evaluation of services: a review
- Authors:
- CHESTON Rik, BENDER Mike, BYATT Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 9(5), October 2000, pp.471-479.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Government policy and good practice dictate that health and other care services should routinely involve service users in the evaluation of the services that they receive. While the carers of people with dementia have been involved in this process relatively often, it has been much rarer for people with dementia themselves to be involved. This article reviews five methods of gathering...
Adapting the counselling role for dementia care
- Author:
- BENDER Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 7(2), March 1999, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
In this second part of his article on the Companions Club, a peer supervision group, the author discusses the wider issues raised by long-term supportive counselling for people with dementia.
Restoring the give and take in a relationship
- Authors:
- SNELLING Emma, BENDER Mike, GREGSON Denise
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 8(1), January 2000, pp.18-20.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
For a person with dementia, the giving in a relationship can feel all one way as they receive increasing amounts of care and services. Reports on a powerful group experience where people with dementia were given the opportunity to reverse this 'gift relationship'.