Enhancing learning and teaching about mental health across the disciplines
August 17, 2017 from 9:30am to 4pm – Broadway House What you will gain from attending: A clear understanding of how anxiety and stress contributes to poor learning – at any age How anxiety reduces motivation, causes writer’s block, freezes a student'… Organized by | Type: training, day/, course
September 13, 2017 from 9:30am to 4pm – The Promenade, Clifton Down, Avon, Bristol What you will gain from the day: A powerful way to stimulate optimism, hope and independence in distressed people A profoundly useful tool for getting through to people stuck in the black and white… Organized by | Type: training, day/, course
September 25, 2017 from 9:30am to 4:30pm – Broadway House What you will gain from attending: 20+ tried and tested psychological techniques for dealing with over-anxiety How guided imagery speeds up treatment for high anxiety plus special tips for using it… Organized by | Type: training, day/, course
October 4, 2017 from 9:30am to 4:30pm – Broadway House What you will gain from attending: The essential Dos and Don'ts for teams and individuals working with people who self-harm Demystification of self-harming behaviours and a greater understanding of… Organized by | Type: training, day/, course
October 11, 2017 from 9:30am to 4pm – The Promenade, Clifton Down, Avon, Bristol What you will gain from the day: Greater confidence in lifting depression and preventing suicides New insight into why depressed people wake up tired and unmotivated, and what to do about it Demonst… Organized by | Type: training, day/, course
October 12, 2017 from 9:30am to 4pm – Engineers House What you will gain from the day: Increased knowledge of the interdependence of the mind-body system and how this impacts on our lives An understanding of the physical health challenges facing us tod… Organized by | Type: training, day/, course
November 15, 2017 from 9:30am to 4pm – Dalton Ellis Hall, What you will gain from attending: The fundamental reasons people become stressed and why simple, easy-to-implement changes can make a big difference Why being stretched is good for us – but being s… Organized by | Type: training, day/, course
November 17, 2017 from 9:30am to 4pm – Broadway House What you will gain from attending: A clear understanding of how anxiety and stress contributes to poor learning – at any age How anxiety reduces motivation, causes writer’s block, freezes a student'… Organized by | Type: training, day/, course
November 17, 2017 from 9:30am to 4pm – Broadway House What you will gain from attending: A clear understanding of how anxiety and stress contributes to poor learning – at any age How anxiety reduces motivation, causes writer’s block, freezes a student'… Organized by | Type: training, day/, course
November 21, 2017 from 9:30am to 4pm – Broadway House What you will gain from attending: The essential knowledge and skills you need to deliver effective interventions to young people – both individually and in groups An increased understanding of what… Organized by | Type: training, day/, course
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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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