Enhancing learning and teaching about mental health across the disciplines
Time: June 19, 2014 from 9am to 6pm
Location: King's College London, Waterloo Campus, F-WB Room 1.70
City/Town: London
Website or Map: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/dep…
Phone: guntars.ermansons@kcl.ac.uk
Event Type: one, day, workshop
Organized By: Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine in collaboration with the Institute of Psychiatry and the SCRWU
Latest Activity: May 12, 2014
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Recently, understanding of mental health has increased in relevance for improving overall health and wellbeing. Initiatives include the Movement for Global Mental Health and the 2014 international mental health leadership exchange hosted by the UK. The new DSM-5 was released in 2013, raising significant questions about the ‘nature’ of mental health and diagnosis, treatment and management of mental illness. This mental health workshop will reflect these important developments. Participants will be invited to focus on particular issues in mental health from varied theoretical and methodological perspectives addressing such questions as:
The workshop will involve plenary and breakout sessions involving problem-solving and training in methodological approaches. It will provide opportunities for postgraduate and senior researchers to share research experience and address questions better understood from the perspectives of social sciences, policy research and health sciences by developing research methods and engaging in discussions of contemporary theoretical developments. In so doing it will open up the possibilities for new collaborative engagements by PhD students and researchers.
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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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The Stepchange approach and shared set of principles inform the …
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Beyond the Pale – Raza Griffiths
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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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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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