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Wellbeing in Prisons Higher Education Network
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This network is for all with an interest in the wellbeing of prisoners, and how this should feature within curricula for health and social care.
Members: 12
Latest Activity: Aug 3, 2019
About WIPHEN
WIPHEN is coordinated by Peter Jones RMN MA FBACP, Visiting Fellow at Durham University and Chair of the Counselling in Prisons Network. Contact Peter.
It exists to pool expertise and best practice in higher education, to identify research agendas and develop excellence in teaching , research and other relevant scholarly activity. Membership is open to all with an interest in the wellbeing of prisoners.
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Comment by Bill Penson on September 13, 2011 at 17:01
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Hi all,
Thought it might be of interest I'm part of a research team across sites that has been successful in getting DoH funding for a systematic review of peer support in prisons! I'll let you know what I can when I can!
Best
Bill
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Comment by Euan Hails on September 16, 2011 at 20:47
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Hi all,
I'd be interested to learn what psychotherapy (if any) is being offered to inmates across your areas?
Ta,
Euan
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Comment by Jill Anderson on February 28, 2013 at 14:17
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A new report by the Mental Health Foudation, Losing Track of Time, is based on research from prisons around the world dealing with the challenges of an ageing prison population.
The report highlights a number of key findings and makes a series of recommendations to tackle these issues.
Policy makers and others working in the field of criminal justice, including prison staff, may find the report especially useful.
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QMU launches the world's first Masters in Mad Studies
Posted by Jill Anderson on December 1, 2020 at 11:50 0 Comments 0 Likes
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…
ContinueUnlearning through Mad Studies: disruptive pedagogical praxis
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 26, 2020 at 19:00 0 Comments 0 Likes
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…
ContinueStepchange: mentally healthy universities
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:48 0 Comments 0 Likes
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 …
ContinueThe Autumn issue of Asylum magazine is out now
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:44 0 Comments 0 Likes
Three sample articles are available on the Asylum website:
Beyond the Pale – Raza Griffiths
An Illustrated Mind – Kathryn Watson …
ContinueThink Ahead gets funding to boost its intake.
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:41 0 Comments 0 Likes
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…
ContinueTransforming Mental Health Social Work videos
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:39 0 Comments 0 Likes
Health Education England has commissioned 11 videos centered on real-life experience of specialists in the social work field.
Transforming mental health social work - conference report
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:37 0 Comments 0 Likes
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.
Leadership in mental health social work - web pages
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:33 0 Comments 0 Likes
A section of the Skills for Care website has been developed for mental health social workers and AMHPs
Social work education and training in mental health, addictions and suicide: a scoping review protocol
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…
ContinueMental health nurse education: perceptions, access and the pandemic
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:25 0 Comments 0 Likes
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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