Enhancing learning and teaching about mental health across the disciplines
July 4, 2017 to July 5, 2017 – Edgehill University Grand Challenges: Social Work for Today and Tomorrow. The ‘Grand Challenge’ initiative seeks to identify ambitious yet achievable goals for society that mobilise the profession and capture the public… Organized by Edgehill University/ JUCSWEC | Type: two, day, conference
May 8, 2017 to May 9, 2017 – University of the Highlands and Islands This two-day symposium arose out of a series of conversations and reflections on the nature of openness within Higher Education. It started with the observation that openness is increasingly seen as… Organized by University of the Highlands and Islands | Type: two, day, symposium
March 30, 2017 to March 31, 2017 – Canada Lodge and Lake Compassionate Mental Health – Building Compassionate Communities is a two day experiential event designed to inform, inspire and empower people living and working with mental distress. We’ve gathere… Organized by Compassionate mental health | Type: two, day, conference
February 18, 2017 to February 19, 2017 – University of Leeds Leeds Psyched society welcome you to attend the National Student Psychiatry Conference 2017! We welcome all students who are interested in mental health, clinical psychology and psychiatry. The confe… Organized by Leeds Psyched society | Type: two, day, conference
July 11, 2016 to July 12, 2016 – University of Surrey This Two-Day Symposium will bring together academics and postgraduate research students who have theoretical and empirical interest in recovery in the context of mental health, physical illness or in… Organized by University of Surrey | Type: two, day, symposium
June 30, 2016 to July 1, 2016 – University of Nottingham Mental disability law (including both mental health law and mental capacity law) in the UK has come into its own in recent years, and there is now a wide range of researchers active in the field, in… Organized by University of Nottingham School of Law and Institute of Mental Health | Type: two, day, conference
May 12, 2016 to May 13, 2016 – The Carlton Hotel The next few years are likely to see dramatic change across HE and FE given recent developments in the national context such as the announcements about a possible Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF),… Organized by SEDA | Type: two, day, conference
May 7, 2016 to May 8, 2016 – The Chancellor's building The Keele Counselling Psychology team warmly welcomes researchers, practitioners and students from all disciplines with an interest or passion for qualitative research, whether relatively new to the… Organized by Counselling Psychology Team, Keele University | Type: two, day, conference
February 24, 2016 to February 25, 2016 – 200SVS The keynote speaker is Kirsten Jack, Manchester Metropolitan University, and the theme for this year’s Health and Social Care conference is how can we inspire, support and share excellent practice in… Organized by HEA Health and Social Care | Type: two, day, conference
September 30, 2015 at 10:30pm to October 1, 2015 at 5:30pm – Holgate Centre, Grey College 'Making Sense of Mad Studies' is a two day conference to be held on 30 September and 1 October 2015-funded by the Wellcome Trust and hosted by the Centre for Medical Humanities at Durham University i… Organized by Centre for Medical Humanities | Type: two, 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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