Workers

The AMBIT TiddlyManual is designed and written with workers in mind as the key "audience". We appreciate that many different workers may be involved in the kind of "street level" or outreach approaches that AMBIT seeks to support and foster, and that such workers may come from very different training backgrounds. Some may be extensively and formally trained in one or more therapeutic modality, others may have much less formal therapeutic training, but may have a combination of life experience, and local knowledge to bring.

Some parts of the manual are more "technical" than others - we are trying to weed out jargon, and to use plain English wherever we can. We are also trying to expand the number of video clips to illustrate or explain particular points, as many people find this suits their learning style better than text. We are open to offers of video clips to add to existing content, as it is helpful to have a wide range of "talking heads" available.

Commissioners

Most services are commissioned in one way or another. Commissioners may be unclear what they are ACTUALLY paying for beyond a limited set of outcomes/outputs that generally fail to portray the richness of a clinical service. A locally-adapted version of the manual (see @tiddlymanuals for examples) is extremely helpful for commissioners as a way of defining in much more operationalised detail what they are paying for.

Clients and Families

A Mentalizing approach to therapeutic work fits well with this "OpenSource" approach to treatment manuals and to "therapy" as a whole - we work hard to make our thinking, beliefs, hopes, fears and intentions, etc, as EXPLICIT as we can, rather than leaving them as IMPLICIT, or undefined. If a young person or family member were interested to browse our practice manual, we would encourage this, and in particular we would be asking:

"Are there any aspects of the work in our manual that YOU have spotted, which YOU think would be helpful for us to focus on more than others?"

As ever, it is always the young person, and those who know them best of all, who are most likely to know what will work best.

Other professionals

The point of TiddlyManuals is to help support, develop and share best practice in ways that are efficient, affordable and effective. The "Elsewhere" heading that you will find in the Show references and info panel for each page ("Tiddler") shows if there are any other locally-edited variations of pages with the same heading, and is designed to encourage and facilitate cross-comparisons between practices in slightly different settings, or with slightly different client groups. We therefore welcome the attention of other professionals, and invite them to give Feedback please! if they are willing and able.