Enhancing learning and teaching about mental health across the disciplines
October 16, 2013 all day – Clarendon suites, Birmingham In order to celebrate twenty years of independent publishing, PCCS Books will be hosting a one-day conference which brings together leading experts in mental health who share the desire for ‘honest,… Organized by PCSS books | Type: one, day, conference
October 8, 2013 from 10am to 5pm – The Old School Rooms, the Round Chapel Mia Kurtti, a family therapist who has been working in the Open Dialogue team in Western Lapland in Finland for 10 years, and Nick Putman, a psychotherapist from the UK, who has been visiting Western… Organized by Open Dialogue UK | Type: one, day, seminar
July 16, 2013 from 10am to 3:30pm – University of Hull - social work service user and carer group The conference will be led by Social Work Service Users and Carers at the University of Hull. It will provide an opportunity for service users and carers, teachers, practitioners, and researchers to… Organized by University of Hull | Type: one, day, conference
June 28, 2013 from 9am to 4:30pm – University of Sunderland The Spiritual Crisis Network began life in 2004 as a volunteer committee of mental health workers and experts by experience. Its aims are to provide information, training, and support for those who a… Organized by The Spiritual Crisis Network | Type: one, day, conference
May 3, 2013 all day – Faculty of Health and Social Care, Robert Gordon University Entitled ‘Promoting Mental Health and Well-Being for all -evidence for mental health practice', the conference will explore the scope of the topic in the context of practitioner roles, the client gro… Organized by Scottish Universities, NHS Healthcare providers, and the Scottish Mental Health Research Network. | Type: one, day, conference
April 16, 2013 all day – Bournemouth University This exciting full-day event provides opportunities to explore novel and emerging practice in narrative approaches in education and research for professional practice. Facilitated through creative an… Organized by Bournemouth University/HEA | Type: one, day, event
March 10, 2013 all day – Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh Mindfulness is known to have many benefits for individuals, whether to improve resilience, reduce stress and improve productivity. Many organisations including Google, AOL, Transport for London and C… Organized by Sandra Gyaltsen and Angela McCusker | Type: one, day, conference
December 6, 2012 all day – The Met, Leeds This conference will explore putting into practice three key aspects of this changing landscape – personalisation, payment by results (PbR) and peer power.PersonalisationThere are many changes in the… Organized by Pavilion Publishing | Type: one, day, conference
December 4, 2012 all day – Brighthelm Centre, Brighton Key speakers: Robert Whitaker, Sami Timimi, Lucy Johnstone, Anne Beales Why has the number of psychiatric diagnoses given to adults and children skyrocketed over the past 50 years? Why does this 'e… Organized by BPS division of clinical psychology, Uni of Brighton, Capital Trust & MIND | Type: one, day, conference
November 10, 2012 all day – Wolfson Theatre, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London Dr Murray Jackson, who died last year, made outstanding contributions through his teachings and writings to the understanding of people with psychosis and therapeutic approaches both on his inpatient… Organized by ISPS | 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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