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Infrequently asked questions

It's become standard practice on the internet to have a page of Frequently Asked Questions.

There, the website managers suggest your questions, and then helpfully answer them.

 Not so here. Here we raise the questions - and you have to answer them.

Reflective practice

Those who have already watched the "Handy Guide", or who have read the operational guidance (Keats et al 2012) , will know that we suggest various areas for consideration, rather than giving a definitive answer on "how to be a PIE".

You will know, too, that we regard "reflective practice" as the golden road to becoming a PIE, rather than adherence to any particular set of precepts. And reflective practice is partly about simply taking the time to reflect on experience. But it does help, to ask the right questions

In the panel to left/right, you will find, if you haven't already, a dozen or so further issues to consider.

The answers that are right for your work will vary from place to place, setting to setting, and even from time to time. Therefore it will be up to you to answer them, in your own way.

NB: for registered members, there is nevertheless the option of a dialogue with others, via the membership pages.

More issues to ponder

In addition to the "Big Six" - for which, see the "Handy guide" - in this section of the site, we suggest a variety of other issues in the development of PIEs in practice. The areas currently covered here are:

A single model?
Challenges to the PIEs concept
Commissioning
"Complex needs?"
Diversity (age, gender etc)
“Enabling environments”
“Greencare”
“Housing First”
Pre-treatment
Rough sleeping
Trauma-Informed Care
Also new, but restricted to members, is a new area for discussion on Domestic Violence – known now in the US as “intimate partner violence”.

Individual sections include links and/or download links to published papers on specific aspects. Some are available to all; others are available only to registered members, in the Documents Library of the Members area,

There you will find all the collected papers referenced here, in alphabetical order (that is, arranged by the authors’ names), whether publicly available or not. This large and growing area of useful material, long with videos and podcasts etc, will soon be searchable, using keywords, to identify particular areas of interest.

But, for more on paradoxical approaches to managing argumentative people, you might be interested to see, in the Library: "For argument's sake", on Debate Mate's way of encouraging assertive debating skills, and also "Debating at the Urban Academy", on the way this was used for example in Kids Company's Urban Academy.......

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