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Neil Walton
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- Location (town and country)
- Tottenham London
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- Job title
- Mental Health journalist/author
- Areas of interest and expertise
- Bipolar type 1 - suicide attempts - anxiety issues - clinical depression - Why people become ill - stress -
- Reason for joining the mhhehub
- Sharing how I survived five breakdowns over 12 years. Mentoring - reducing mental health stigma -
- Website:
- www.bipolar-expedition.co.uk
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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A rather belated welcome to the mhhehub Neil. It's great that you have joined. I hope you will find things on the hub that are helpful to you. Do explore - join a group, post something on your blog, make a friend, use the search box on the home page. . . Please add yourself to the member map which we are hoping will help support networking between those in the same geographical location. Any queries or suggestions, do just get in touch - either with myself or Bill Penson. Please pass the word around to other people with an interest in learning and teaching about mental health, and help us to build the hub.
Hi Jill, thank you for your message. I hope to be able to add something to the hub in terms of help, advice, humour (most important that) and to make people aware of the benefits of writing their story down (with a pen!). I, like most, have been through my private hell, but made it through to the other side with most of my 'normal' marbles in tact.
I have survived five breakdowns blah, blah blah and quite by chance joined a local user-run editorial team. It really was a life-altering move for me. I wrote my story and sometime later my first book was published in 2007. (FYI link below) I now write observational humour and have a second book ready for publishing, once I can find the right publisher. So if anyone can recommend one to me, I'd be more than grateful. The upshot of picking up the pen is that it's kept me well (on meds) for the last 11 years in row!
Catch you later, Neil Walton
Author of Bi Polar Expedition
www.bipolar-expedition.co.uk
Mental Health journalist &
Comedy writer
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