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Profile Information
- Location (town and country)
- Leeds
- Institution
- Leeds University
- Discipline
- Social Work and Mental Health
- Job title
- Mental Health Consultant and Trainer
- Areas of interest and expertise
- Suicide Prevention. Promoting mental and emotional wellbeing in social care and health staff.
- Reason for joining the mhhehub
- To learn from others and share insights and understandings.
- Website:
- Mind and Soul, SWEP
Biography profile - Mike Bush
I have worked in the social health care area for over 38 years. My experience has been predominantly in adult services and mental health, mainly working in Community Mental Health Teams as a Mental Health Social Worker. I am a member of the Samaritans National Advisory Group and have done consultancy work for the Samaritans concerning there National Strategy Plan. I have been an adviser to the Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention Forum. I am a member of the Dept of Health National Suicide Prevention Strategy Working Party responsible for developing the “Help is at Hand” National Suicide Bereavement Information Pack. I am a member of the Leeds Suicide Prevention Strategy Group and I have written the introduction to this document. I am a member of the All Party Group on Suicide Prevention at the House of Commons.
I have been a speaker at national and regional conferences concerning suicide issues and men’s mental health and have appeared as a panellist on the Radio 4 you and yours concerning mental health issues regarding suicide and stigma. I have also been involved with local radio and television regarding mental health issues. I have also had papers published on suicide and mental health issues in mental health journals and on websites in Britain and America.
Ironically in November 2000 I suffered a major mental breakdown I became about as depressed as a human being can get and was actively suicidal myself. I cannot put into words how much I have learnt as a result of this year of living hell that I experienced. I am heavily involved in a wide range of national and regional mental health organisations and mental health user involvement campaigning groups .My mental health user experience has meant a journey of light years in understanding acute mental distress and it has contributed more than I can say to my perception of mental distress and has greatly informed my practice as a lecturer in mental health work at universities in the Yorkshire area.
Contact details:
Email crossbear4953@yahoo.co.uk
Mike Bush's Blog
The importance of supporting social workers’ own wellbeing should not be underestimated
Posted on May 22, 2014 at 17:21 0 Comments 0 Likes
The importance of supporting social workers’ own wellbeing should not be underestimated
After Mike Bush experienced a mental breakdown while working as a social worker he looked to improve support for professionals' wellbeing
ContinueSocial workers must employ "everyday small actions of resistance" to revolt against austerity-based poor bashing
Posted on March 30, 2014 at 11:35 0 Comments 0 Likes
Austerity is being deliberately targeted at poorer people who depend on public services, a BASW Cymru World Social Work Day event heard.
University of Wolverhampton academic Graeme Simpson told social workers at Cardiff University that disabled people are being particularly hard hit by service closures and tougher eligibility criteria. He said that councils will be forced to make cuts of nearly 75% by 2018-19, with more than half affecting services and benefits.
Mr Simpson used…
ContinueHow to look after yourself: our professional resilience debate
Posted on March 28, 2014 at 4:13 0 Comments 0 Likes
On 6 March TCSW held its second debate on the new Communities of Interest platform, on the topic of professional resilience.
Given the stories that have been published over the last few weeks about stress and burn out in mental health and NHS…
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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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That's great Mike.
For anyone interested, here is the link to the Consultation:
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Consultations/Liveconsultations/DH_128065
Hi Mike,
Keeping busy as ever (in fact more than busy !).
Hope all is well with you. Let me know when you are around these parts next and I'll get the kettle on.
Best wishes
Gary
Hello Gary
As it happens will be at Leeds Uni on 2/11/11 in the social work dept 10.30 till 12.30 could see you after that if you are ok than look forward to hearing from you.
Regards
Mike
Hello Mike. Thanks for your welcoming post :-)
Sending you best regards from the Berlin autumn!
Hi Mike
It has taken a few days to sort out my access, but looks as if this is now OK.
This looks like a very useful forum.
Thanks for your message.
Best wishes
Kate
Hi Mike. I've posted a thread in the Forum on academic wellbeing and included the links to the bundlr collections. Have a look, and contribute if you feel like it. Hope we can get some discussion going. Jill
Sorry - meant to add - it's here: http://mhhehub.ning.com/forum/topics/wellbeing-and-academia?xg_source=activity
You might be interested in this: http://mhhehub.ning.com/profiles/blogs/on-wounded-healers-and-coming-out
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