PROTECT | Values for Well-being and Resilience
HEALING WITH HOPE | A Journey of Mental Wellbeing, Resilience, and Connection
Welcome to PROTECT, a transformative podcast dedicated to nurturing mental well-being, building resilience, and fostering hope. At its core, PROTECT is about the power of human connection—exploring how values like compassion, belonging, and loyalty can become lifelines for those facing challenges. Founded on the principle of Relational Safety, this podcast moves beyond traditional perspectives, asking not “what’s the matter with you?” but “what matters to you?”—empowering both professionals and individuals in their journey to chip away at pain and build strength.
Hosted by Dr. Manaan Kar Ray, an innovator and leader in mental health crisis care with over a decade of experience at Oxford and Cambridge, and now the Director of Mental Health Services at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, PROTECT is changing the way we think about suicide prevention. Each episode blends leading-edge research with person-centered practice, bringing insights that promote hope, purpose, and resilience.
In our new focus, we introduce Sunny’s Value Scouts—an uplifting series designed to cultivate resilience in younger audiences. Each story explores a value—from belonging and acceptance to courage and compassion—helping to build emotional strength and guide listeners through life's ups and downs. This podcast is an essential resource for all those who care deeply about mental health, suicide prevention, and building communities that thrive on connection and kindness.
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PROTECT | Values for Well-being and Resilience
14 | AWARE 1 - Appraise Clinical Decision - ANXIETY
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Professionals need a good understanding of self before they can understand others.
AWARE protects against undue influences in the act of clinical decision making. Intended to make practice safer, its use in clinical supervision or multidisciplinary case reviews should bolster practice by making individuals and/or teams who assess people in suicidal crisis, mindful of the implicit effect of the AWARE factors.
The five factors are:
Anxiety (generated/diffused in):
●Patient
●Family/carer/friend
●Referrer
●Triaging/assessing practitioner
Weighting (of symptoms elicited):
●Diagnosis (comorbidity - personality disorder/alcohol or substance misuse)
●Course of illness (acute/chronic/acute on chronic)
●Factors considered outside core remit (relationships/finances/accommodation/employment/family - carer availability)
Agenda (elicited in):
●Referrer
●Patient
●Family
●Practitioner
●Team
Resources (identified or not):
●Beds
●Home treatment capacity
Experience (generalised from):
●Same patient to different presentation
●Other patients from the same diagnostic group
●Other patients from the same demographic profile
●Past adverse events
These episode dives deep into Anxiety and discusses why we see what we want to see.
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