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April 8Monday
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Student wellbeing and mental health: supporting successful transition
April 8, 2019 to April 9, 2019 – Celtic Manor Resort Student wellbeing and mental health is most vulnerable at times of transition, particularly for those entering their first year of higher education. Between them, delegates at the Admissions Confere… Organized by UCAS | Type: two, day, conference
May 16Thursday
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE MENTAL HEALTH & WELLBEING OF POSTGRADUATE RESEARCHERS
May 16, 2019 to May 17, 2019 – Jury's Inn Waterfront This two-day international conference will provide delegates with a national and international view of sector policy developments, insights into the implementation of institu… Organized by Nature Research | Type: two, day, conference
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Improving Student Mental Health Outcomes
May 16, 2019 from 9:15am to 4:15pm – Mary Ward House Conference and Exhibition Centre Recognition of the prevalence of student mental health and wellbeing issues has led to a culture change in higher education institutions. This conference will bring together HEIs, public and voluntar… Organized by Open Forum Events Ltd | Type: one, day, conference
May 17Friday
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Mad Hearts: The Arts and Mental Health
May 17, 2019 to May 18, 2019 – Queen Mary University of London This two-day conference explores productive, radical, contemporary encounters between the arts and mental health, bringing together clinical, artistic and research perspectives that offer a re-interp… Organized by Maria Turri | Type: two, day, conference
May 23Thursday
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Promoting and Improving Student Mental Health and Wellbeing in Higher Education
May 23, 2019 from 8:45am to 3:45pm – Central London This Forum will provide attendees with the opportunity to discuss pioneering ways of supporting Higher Education (HE) students and ensuring all those that need help due to mental ill health are… Organized by Inside Government | Type: one, day, conference
June 18Tuesday
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Mind Reading: Mental Health and the Written Word
June 18, 2019 to June 19, 2019 – Arts Building - Lecture Rooms 6 and 7 Do clinicians and patients speak the same language? How might we bridge the evident gaps in communication? How can we use narrative to foster clinical relationships? Or to care for the carers? How do… Organized by University of Birmingham, University of Oxford | Type: 2, 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
September 3Tuesday
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Refocus on Recovery
September 3, 2019 at 9am to September 5, 2019 at 7pm – Nottingham Conference Centre This conference aims to advance the field of recovery research and to create an international community of influence. The event takes place in Nottingham in England, and has three parts: &… Organized by This conference is a joint collaboration between The Institute of Mental Health, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, The University of Nottingham, the World Health Organisation, ImROC, Mental Elf, Making Waves and the Mental Health Foundation | Type: 3, day, conference
September 12Thursday
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25th International Mental Health Nursing Research Conference
September 12, 2019 to September 13, 2019 – RCN London Join us at this premier international conference as we explore developments in mental health nursing research, education and practice. Discover how nurse-led initiatives are influencing the glo… Organized by Royal College of Nursing | Type: 2, day, conference
November 4Monday
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Group of Trainers in Clinical Psychology Annual Conference
November 4, 2019 to November 6, 2019 – Hilton ‘Though your dreams be tossed and blown’: Human rights, social justice and clinical psychologies of resistance Hosted in Liverpool, a city of radicalism and resistance, the 2019 Group of Trainers in… Organized by British Psychological Society | Type: 3, day, conference
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QMU launches the world's first Masters in Mad Studies
Posted by Jill Anderson on December 1, 2020 at 11:50 0 Comments 0 Likes
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh is launching the world’s first master’s degree in Mad Studies. The MSc Mad Studies course is primarily a course for graduates with lived experience of mental health issues. It has been hailed by a leading international Mad Studies academic as the most exciting piece of curriculum development in the last 20 years!
Mad Studies is a recognised academic discipline that explores the knowledge and actions that have grown…
ContinueUnlearning through Mad Studies: disruptive pedagogical praxis
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 26, 2020 at 19:00 0 Comments 0 Likes
Medical discourse currently dominates as the defining framework for madness in educational praxis. Consequently, ideas rooted in a mental health/illness binary abound in higher learning, as both curriculum content and through institutional procedures that reinforce structures of normalcy. While madness, then, is included in university spaces, this inclusion proceeds in ways that continue to pathologize madness and disenfranchise mad people.
This paper offers Mad…
ContinueStepchange: mentally healthy universities
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:48 0 Comments 0 Likes
Earlier this year, UUK published a refreshed version of its strategic framework, Stepchange: mentally healthy universities, calling on universities to prioritise the mental health of their students and staff by taking a whole university approach to mental health.
The Stepchange approach and shared set of principles inform the …
ContinueThe Autumn issue of Asylum magazine is out now
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:44 0 Comments 0 Likes
Three sample articles are available on the Asylum website:
Beyond the Pale – Raza Griffiths
An Illustrated Mind – Kathryn Watson …
ContinueThink Ahead gets funding to boost its intake.
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:41 0 Comments 0 Likes
Fast-track mental health social work provider Think Ahead will expand its intake by 60% from next year following a government funding boost of at least £18m.
The Department of Health and Social Care has agreed a contract with Think Ahead to increase the number of trainees for its 2021 and 2022 cohorts from 100 to 160, with…
ContinueTransforming Mental Health Social Work videos
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:39 0 Comments 0 Likes
Health Education England has commissioned 11 videos centered on real-life experience of specialists in the social work field.
Transforming mental health social work - conference report
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:37 0 Comments 0 Likes
In February 2020 Health Education England and Skills for Care put on two major conferences about the role and development of mental health social work.
Leadership in mental health social work - web pages
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:33 0 Comments 0 Likes
A section of the Skills for Care website has been developed for mental health social workers and AMHPs
Social work education and training in mental health, addictions and suicide: a scoping review protocol
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:29 1 Comment 1 Like
Social workers are among the largest group of professionals in the mental health workforce and play a key role in the assessment of mental health, addictions and suicide. Most social workers provide services to individuals with mental health concerns, yet there are gaps in research on social work education and training programmes. The objective of this open access scoping review is to examine literature on social work education and training in mental health, addictions and…
ContinueMental health nurse education: perceptions, access and the pandemic
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:25 0 Comments 0 Likes
With World Mental Health Day this Saturday, a new Nuffield Trust report discusses how more people might be attracted to apply to study mental health nursing, and the reasons why they might currently be less likely to do so.
Co-author Claudia Leone picks out some key findings.
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