Enhancing learning and teaching about mental health across the disciplines
June 10, 2015 all day – Liverpool Hope University The work of Peter Sedgwick and in particular his classic text PsychoPolitics (1982) has a renewed relevance in the context of ‘austerity’, the privatisation of welfare provision and emergent forms of… Organized by Department of social work, care and justice - Liverpool Hope University - and partners | Type: one, day, conference
May 22, 2015 from 6pm to 7pm – East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham The date is 11 June 2020 and it is your induction day for your new academic post at Futura University. The Vice-Chancellor will welcome you and set out this new University’s priorities for learning a… Organized by Higher Education Academy | Type: one, day, simulation
May 21, 2015 all day – Weetwood Hall This event, the next in the HEA enhancement series will focus on developing pedagogy in Health and Social Care. The event will open with a keynote address from Dr Elizabeth Cleaver, from the Learning… Organized by Higher Education Academy | Type: one, day, conference
May 15, 2015 all day – Conferencing and Business Centre Why is interest in Open Dialogue growing so fast in the UK? What is the experience of Open Dialogue actually like? Is it relevant for you - should you be getting involved? This is a day for anyone wa… Organized by ISPS | Type: one, day, conference
March 17, 2015 all day – Friends Meeting House Speakers to include: Jerry Tew, author of Social Approaches to Mental Distress Sarah Yiannoullou, Managing Director of the National Survivor User Network Professor Peter Beresford on a Social Model… Organized by BASW and SPN | Type: one, day, conference
March 10, 2015 all day – Holiday Inn, Bloomsbury If - as a society - we want caring and compassionate frontline professionals, we have to treat them with care and compassion to facilitate this.There is strong evidence of stress related illness, li… Organized by Community Care | Type: one, day, conference
February 13, 2015 all day – Woburn House Conference Centre Higher Education students are under a great deal of pressure in the modern social climate. Not only are many making a significant financial commitment due to their university and college fees and li… Organized by UUK Mental Wellbeing in Higher Education working group | Type: one, day, conference
January 21, 2015 all day – Central London (t.b.c.) The Centre for Innovation and Leadership in Health Sciences, University of Southampton, extends a very warm welcome to all those interested in participating in this one-day conference, being held in… Organized by University of Southampton | Type: one, day, conference
June 28, 2014 all day – Ruskin College Theme of the Conference The crisis in mental health services has become so acute that even the government has had to acknowledge the scale of the problem. Welfare services, which service users and ca… Organized by Social Work Action Network | Type: one, day, conference
June 25, 2014 from 10am to 5pm – ICO Conference Centre, London This conference is a Partnership Conference between The National Survivor User Network (NSUN) for mental health and Healthcare Conferences UK. NSUN is an independent, service-user-led charity that co… Organized by NSUN and Healthcare Conferences | 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
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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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