Enhancing learning and teaching about mental health across the disciplines
May 15, 2018 all day – University of Gloucestershire The concept of resilience in various guises is becoming an increasingly recognisable trope within the contemporary university. From discourses that fit broadly within self-help narratives, whereby in… Organized by University of Gloucestershire | Type: one, day, conference
June 12, 2018 at 6pm to June 13, 2018 at 7pm – Temple Hall, York St John University Universities are having to adapt to rapidly changing economic and demographic changes. One way in which they are doing so is through increasing engagement in their local communities within which High… Organized by York St John University | Type: two, day, conference
July 11, 2018 to July 13, 2018 – Manchester Playful Learning is pitched at the intersection of learning and play for adults. Playful in approach and outlook, yet underpinned by robust research and working practices, we provided a spa… Organized by | Type: conference
September 17, 2018 all day – Buckingham House See programme Organized by Duncan Double | Type: one, day, conference
October 9, 2018 all day – St Andrews Healthcare Confirmed speakers:– Dr Ruth Allen, CEO BASW– Dr David N. Jones, Chair, BASW International Committee– Dr Kevin Stone, Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, UWE– Dr Sarah Vicary, Open Univ… Organized by BASW | Type: one, day, conference
October 12, 2018 from 1pm to 5pm – Birkbeck, University of London Speakers Ewen Speed Rick Burgess Anne O'Donnell There is a mental health and social welfare crisis in the UK. Disability and service user-led groups are leading campaigns to raise awareness o… Organized by British Sociological Association | Type: half, day, conference
October 18, 2018 from 9:30am to 5pm – RSA House The Joint University Council (JUC) was formed a hundred years ago during another time of national and international crisis. Its purpose was to shape public services so that they could meet the needs… Organized by Joint University Council | Type: one, day, conference
November 1, 2018 from 8:45am to 4:30pm – Kings House Conference Centre Organized by PCCS Books | Type: one, day, conference
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 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
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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Three sample articles are available on the Asylum website:
Beyond the Pale – Raza Griffiths
An Illustrated Mind – Kathryn Watson …
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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…
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Health Education England has commissioned 11 videos centered on real-life experience of specialists in the social work field.
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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.
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A section of the Skills for Care website has been developed for mental health social workers and AMHPs
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…
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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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