Enhancing learning and teaching about mental health across the disciplines
September 29, 2016 from 10am to 4pm – Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre A symposium bringing together the disciplines of medicine, sociology and philosophy to explore how narrative helps us to understand the experiences and lives of people who engage with psychiatry. In… Organized by Birmingham City University | Type: one, day, symposium
January 11, 2017 all day – Institute for Lifecourse and Society, National University of Ireland Confirmed Speakers Include: Tina Minkowitz, Maths Jesperson, Cath Roper, Professor Rosie Harding, Dr. Piers Gooding, Michelle Dalton.The right to refuse treatment is a fundamental principal in the ri… Organized by Centre for Disability Law and Policy | Type: one, day, seminar
January 21, 2017 all day – The Gateway Centre What is Beyond the Therapy Room?Last June, the Beyond the Therapy Room conference ran for the first time in London. This conference featured psychologists, academics and writers speaking about ways… Organized by BPS Division of Clinical Psychology | Type: one, day, conference
January 26, 2017 all day – Amnesty International This free* one day conference, supported by the BPS, provides an opportunity to explore the value of, and problems with, psychiatric diagnosis. Using some alternative ways of understanding, and respo… Organized by Hearing Voices Network in conjunction with the BPS | Type: one, day, conference
February 28, 2017 all day – Trinity Chapel, Leicester de Montfort University As part of #DMUpride month, we are holding our 3rd annual conference entitled Mental health in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer Communities: Building resilience. This conference will uniquely… Organized by Leicester de Montfort University | Type: one, day, conference
March 10, 2017 all day – The Melting Pot This one day Continuing Professional Development (CPD) event is for everyone who is interested in the current debates around mental health. It aims to attract psychologists, counsellors, service user… Organized by Jo Watson | Type: one, day, conference
March 16, 2017 all day – Woburn House Conference Centre Student mental wellbeing is a one day conference offered jointly by UUK and the Mental Wellbeing in Higher Education Working Group (MWBHE). The event will inspire delegates to review and refine curre… Organized by Universities UK | Type: one, day, conference
April 7, 2017 all day – Kings College London, Strand Campus This conference will have a focus on: - engaging and supporting students - engaging and supporting teachers and - innovations in undergraduate psychiatry. Programme Booking form Organized by AUTP | Type: one, day, conference
April 8, 2017 all day – Teesside University This is the 12th Social Work Action Network Conference and is open to all social workers, students academics and service users. It willl include plenaries on privatisation, racism, austerity and inte… Organized by Social Work Action Network | Type: one, day, conference
April 26, 2017 all day – Stirling Court Hotel A national conference to share and promote best practice in service user and carer involvement in professional education. The conference will bring together service users and carers, students, educat… Organized by Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stirling | Type: one, 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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