Enhancing learning and teaching about mental health across the disciplines
February 28, 2019 from 10am to 1pm – Food For Thought, Lune Street, Lancaster We are running a 10 week course called Confidence in Self Employment. Its for people thinking about self employment. Its for anyone with a disability or a health related issue including mental health… Organized by Lionel Rice | Type: supportive, learning, opportunity
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
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Posted by Jill Anderson on November 5, 2018 at 14:29 0 Comments 0 Likes
Some links to project with a focus on the mental health of mental health professionals and/or humanising health and social care.
Action for Careforce Wellbeing
https://survivingwork.org/action-for-care-worker-wellbeing/
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Destigmatising the experience of mental ill-health in mental health professionals…
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This animation was commissioned to disseminate the findings from a research project carried out at Middlesex University.
The project set out to address an important gap in research and practice knowledge relating to ‘disability hate crime’, targeted violence and hostility against people with mental health…
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A Melbourne Social Equity Institute research team is examining ways of avoiding coercive practices to ensure people experiencing mental health crises are treated with dignity and respect. Most recently, the team undertook a systematic review of global practices that aim to reduce, prevent and end coercive practices in mental health settings.
The review was commissioned…
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There is growing recognition of the importance of kindness and relationships for societal wellbeing. But talking about kindness does not fit easily within the rational lexicon of public policy.
Julia Unwin’s report, for the Carnegie Trust, Kindness, emotions and human relationships: The blind spot in public policy argues that there have been very good reasons…
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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.
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 12, 2018 at 11:00 0 Comments 1 Like
This animation was commissioned to disseminate the findings from a research project carried out at Middlesex…
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…
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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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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…
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