Mental Health in Higher Education Hub
Enhancing learning and teaching about mental health across the disciplines
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Book Club
13 members
Mindfulness and Higher Education
9 members
Newly Qualified Workers.
5 members
Social work and mental health
24 members
All Groups (17)
Mindfulness and Higher Education
9 members Latest Activity: Jan 18, 2019
This group is for anyone interested in exploring issues relating to mindfulness approaches and their use in learning and teaching about mental…
Newly Qualified Workers.
5 members Latest Activity: Nov 27, 2017
This group is for Newly Qualified Workers working within Mental Health to share resources and ideas.
Arts and Mental health
3 members Latest Activity: May 19, 2017
A forum for everyone interested in learning, research and teaching around the relationship between creativity and mental health and wellbeing.
MY MAD SPACE
19 members Latest Activity: May 19, 2017
I would like this to be a space for anyone who is using their lived experience of mental distress in teaching and learning - or would like to!! -…
Book Club
13 members Latest Activity: May 19, 2017
This is a group for members who want to suggest , recommend or review books they are currently reading in the mental health field.
Distress or Disability?
13 members Latest Activity: May 19, 2017
This group has been set up to take forward discussion from the event held at Lancaster University on 15-16 November 2011.
Involving service users with dementia or learning disability
10 members Latest Activity: May 26, 2013 A place to share ideas on involving people with cognitive difficulties (eg dementia, learning disability) in research, education or practice…
mhhe new lecturers
11 members Latest Activity: May 19, 2017 This group is for all who consider themselves new to teaching about mental health within a higher education context and wish to network with others…
mhhe forum
10 members Latest Activity: May 19, 2017
For all involved in learning and teaching about mental health. Provides biannual opportunities for people to meet face to face. An evolution of…
mhhe students
12 members Latest Activity: May 19, 2017 This group is for anyone engaged in learning about mental health - across all disciplines. Use it to share ideas and resources and pose questions.
Wellbeing in Prisons Higher Education Network
12 members Latest Activity: Aug 3, 2019
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.…
Development of User and Carer Involvement in Education
39 members Latest Activity: Jul 30, 2014
For anyone with an interest in how service users and carers can be involved in learning and teaching about mental health. An open group which…
Learning and Teaching about Mental Health in Wales (LTMH Wales)
3 members Latest Activity: May 19, 2017 Please see in this group for items relating to
Learning and Teaching about Mental Health in Wales (LTMH Wales)
Real World Education? GCU Mindfulness group
7 members Latest Activity: Jun 9, 2014
A forum for participants in the Mindfulness programme at Glasgow Caledonian University.
AMHP programme leads
3 members Latest Activity: Mar 15, 2016
This is a group for those of us who are responsible for AMHP programmes. It is intended to provide a space to exchange ideas and experiences…
Critical friends
3 members Latest Activity: Apr 9, 2013
This is a group for anyone writing who wants to be able to give and receive feedback.
Social work and mental health
24 members Latest Activity: Dec 8, 2013 This group is for all with an interest in learning and teaching about mental health within social work programmes (pre- and post qualifying) and in…
Blog Posts
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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