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Profile Information
- Location (town and country)
- Bradford
- Institution
- UCLAN/Leeds Met
- Discipline
- Mental Health
- Job title
- PhD Student/associate lecturer
- Areas of interest and expertise
- disability, psychosis, humanities
Bill Penson's Blog
DE in the Midlands
Posted on August 19, 2013 at 14:14 1 Comment 0 Likes
I was quite surprised to read this piece at the end of last week, and even more surprised to see very little traffic on twitter, and the like, about it. DE, a man with learning disabilities, will be sterilised without his consent- fair measures can be taken to make this happen. While the full story is likely to be complex, it seems no-one was really disagreeing with the need for this to happen, and DE didn't want to have any more children. Presumbaly he didn't want to be operated on though,…
ContinueFree conference in York on 'chronic conditions'
Posted on July 9, 2013 at 7:00 0 Comments 0 Likes
Interesting web link- arts, dementia and ageing
Posted on June 28, 2013 at 19:51 0 Comments 1 Like
Really interesting work on ageing, dementia and dsm.
B
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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Hello there,
Good to see you last week and I am now finally able to access this propoerly.
HOpe to see you again soon.
Best wishes
Kate
Hi Bill, Thanks for your message. I just came across it whilst searches for mental health resources. Best wishes, Liz
Hi Bill, not sure when I first heard about MHHE - think I met Jill Anderson somewhere? Anyway it became very useful to me when I took on a job for Leeds Mind (originally for YHIP) writing a monthly e-bulletin about Employment & Learning Skills in Yorks & Humber, and I was getting a regular mailing. Then I lost contact when I changed my e-mail address after a bad case of hacking! So when my friend and colleague Mike Bush sent me a link to this site I thought it would be a way to renew contact.
Not sure if we've met? You don't look familiar but my memory's shocking! I haven't had a lot to do with the Metropolitan - although it's very implicated in my own mental health story since I had my first 'breakdown' there when a student in 1975! Maybe that's why I've avoided it! My work's mainly been in advocacy and involvement, though I wrote a couple of plays about mental health which were used as course materials by the OU, and the creative side of things has always been my ambition.
Good to be in contact, Terry
Hi Bill,
Thanks for your welcome message, makes a real difference - as in, it makes membership active and warming which I really appreciate. I've been in the email loop via Jill for about three years now and only realised I wasn't a member of the site the other day - or rather - didn't even think about membership issues either way. It's good to find another space in which I might express my ideas and values in re mental health
So - thanks.
Festive Wishes,
Janie
All the best
Clare
Thank you for the message Bill! Yes I lead our PgCHE programme and we are trying to help participants think about the inclusion agenda from the widest possible angles. So the mhhe is a useful resource for us to flag for staff right across the University. Best wishes, Clare.
Thanks for the welcome Bill, thats much appreciated.
Best wishes,
Trevor.
Hi Bill, Sorry for not replying sooner, however I have had a rather busy week and I have not had a chance to even open my laptop. Thanks for your message, I am finding the hub a source of lots of great information!
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