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All Events (4)
November 1Thursday
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The Future of Counselling? PCCS books 25th anniversary conference
November 1, 2018 from 8:45am to 4:30pm – Kings House Conference Centre Organized by PCCS Books | Type: one, day, conference
November 13Tuesday
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Psychosis and Institutional Racism
November 13, 2018 from 1pm to 5pm – Amnesty International UK Institutional racism is sometimes viewed as the elephant in the room in mental health and psychosis. We know that people from racialised minorities are more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia,… Organized by ISPS UK | Type: one, day, conference
November 14Wednesday
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CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON AND BEYOND ‘RECOVERY’: TEN YEARS ON
November 14, 2018 to November 15, 2018 – University College Cork At the first critical perspectives conference, in 2009, recovery principles and practices were debated and discussed with a considerable optimism about their potential to radically change mental heal… Organized by Lydia Sapouna, Catherine McAuley and Harry Gijbels in association with Critical Voices Network | Type: two, day, conference
July 22Monday
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9th International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health
July 22, 2019 to July 26, 2019 – University of York Held in the historic city of York, the conference will provide delegates with ideas and inspiration about shaping the future for social work in health and mental health services in their own country.… Organized by Martin Webber on behalf of ICSW | Type: international, conference
Blog Posts
Journal of autoethnography for health and social care.
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 17, 2018 at 17:32 0 Comments 0 Likes
This journal aims to provide a forum for opening intellectual curiousity and exploration via auto ethnographic enquiry. The journal casts a critical eye over the material, social, cultural and political worlds we inhabit.
Keeping Control - animation
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 12, 2018 at 11:00 0 Comments 1 Like
“IF BAD THINGS HAPPEN AND THEN YOU ARE NOT HELPED OR PROTECTED THAT MAKES IT MUCH WORSE”
This animation was commissioned to disseminate the findings from a research project carried out at Middlesex…
Action for Care Workers' Wellbeing
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 12, 2018 at 10:30 1 Comment 2 Likes
Yesterday, on World Mental Health Day (10 October 2018), Action for Care-Workers Wellbeing (ACW) was launched.
Facilitated by BASW, ACW is a collaborative network of professionals from the NHS and social care who represent a wide range of key UK caring professions (Nursing, General Practice, Psychiatry, Psychology, Social Work and Paramedics).
The group’s aim is to raise awareness of stress and burnout within the health and social care workforce, identify solutions, and propose…
Continue Abstracts and reviewers wanted: International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 5, 2018 at 10:14 0 Comments 0 Likes
Upcoming changes to the Mental Health and Mental Capacity Acts: video of SCIE webinar
Posted by Jill Anderson on September 27, 2018 at 15:17 0 Comments 0 Likes
In September 2018, SCIE hosted a webinar to discuss the forthcoming changes to the Mental Health Act and the Mental Capacity Act. The webinar reflected on the important changes in how people's rights are protected. A panel of policy and practice experts in both pieces of legislation helped practitioners, academics and others reflect on these important changes.
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Posted by Jill Anderson on September 23, 2018 at 7:42 0 Comments 0 Likes
Deaths from heart disease have fallen by almost two thirds since the 1960s.Yet outcomes for those with mental illness, from depression and anxiety to schizophrenia and bipolar disorders, have not improved for decades. Is this because we have the wrong diagnoses? Might neuroscience provide more precise descriptions and therefore more effective treatment? Or is mental health too complex for us to understand it in mere…
Religion and Belief: supporting inclusion of staff and students in higher education and colleges
Posted by Jill Anderson on September 22, 2018 at 8:30 2 Comments 1 Like
Advance HE has issued a comprehensive new guide: “Religion and Belief: supporting inclusion of staff and students in higher education and colleges" to higher education institutions across the UK, and colleges in Scotland.
The guidance examines a full range of engagements with students, staff and beyond the campus in areas such as access, recruitment and civic responsibilities, providing detailed recommendations which institutions may wish to consider when…
Continue Patient and Public Involvement and engagement and coproduction - call for papers.
Posted by Jill Anderson on September 13, 2018 at 14:51 0 Comments 0 Likes
Asylum 25.3 is out now
Posted by Jill Anderson on September 11, 2018 at 15:10 0 Comments 0 Likes
This special Welfare Rights feature was inspired by discussions with people attempting to navigate the welfare system and has been developed by co-editor Ria Dylan and Danny Taggart.
Asylum 25.3 presents a series of articles that reflect the despair, illness and worse that people have…
Continue SMaRteN network - project coordinator post
Posted by Jill Anderson on September 11, 2018 at 15:06 0 Comments 0 Likes
This role will support the development and coordination of a national student mental health research network, including a Student-led Research Team, ensuring strong stakeholder engagement across the network activities.…
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