Enhancing learning and teaching about mental health across the disciplines
September 14, 2015 all day – University of Sheffield Colonising Madness: Postcolonial theory within Critical Disability Studies, Mad Studies, and Critical (Educational) Psychology Organised by China Mills and Dan Goodley, at the Critical Education and… Organized by University of Sheffield - school of education | Type: one, day, seminar
November 27, 2014 from 2pm to 4pm – St Marylebone Parish Church The term 'carer' is a legally enshrined term which describes the scope of the caring role and the legal rights of carers. In this seminar we will discuss the insights of some of the major faith trad… Organized by National Spirituality and Mental Health Forum | Type: seminar
October 13, 2014 from 2pm to 6pm – L101 (Lower Ground Floor), Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Charles Clore House, The CRRE national seminar series, sponsored by the Society for Educational Studies (SES), has begun to establish a vital critical space where educators, researchers and activists engaged in race equa… Organized by University of Birmingham - Centre for Research on Race and Education | Type: seminar
May 14, 2014 from 2pm to 4pm – University of Bedfordshire Although helping professionals generally experience a high level of job satisfaction, the work can be emotionally demanding and stressful. It has been argued that they require emotional resilience to… Organized by University of Bedfordshire | Type: seminar
March 27, 2014 from 2:30pm to 5pm – Rethink Mental Illness London, SE1 7TP Our next meeting of the Mental Health Qualitative Research Network will be about‘Autoethnography in mental health research’, and we will hear about challenges of using personal experience to gain in-… Organized by Mental Health Qualitative Research Network | Type: seminar
January 23, 2014 from 9:45am to 4pm – Highfield House, University of Nottingham Series Outline Organisers: Andrew King (PI) (University of Surrey), Kathryn Almack (University of Nottingham), Yiu-Tung Suen (Oxford University/Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Sue Westwood (Keel… Organized by Andrew King (PI) (University of Surrey), Kathryn Almack (University of Nottingham), Yiu-Tung Suen (Oxford University/Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Sue Westwood (Keele University). | Type: one, day, seminar
December 12, 2013 from 9:30am to 12:45pm – Innovation Centre, University of York This seminar will be introduced by Martin Webber who will present a summary of recent research findings about stress and burn-out in social work. In particular, he will present the findings of a nati… Organized by Making Research Count, York | Type: making, research, count, seminar
October 24, 2013 from 9:15am to 4:15pm – The Pavilion Hotel This seminar explores the findings of three research projects which focus on the networks of people with mental health problems. The Connecting People study has developed and is piloting an intervent… Organized by Making Research Count, York | Type: making, research, count, seminar
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
April 22, 2013 from 10am to 4pm – Cardiff School of Education This seminar seeks to bring students and academic staff together with representatives from a range of other HE stakeholder groups including inter alia student services, and student representatives. … Organized by Higher Education Academy | Type: seminar
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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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