Enhancing learning and teaching about mental health across the disciplines
Pharmacy Services at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLSTG) have developed an innovative app that is available free to help with the safe prescribing, administering and monitoring of lithium.
In the UK, Lithium Carbonate (often referred to as lithium) is the medication most commonly used to treat bipolar disorder. As we know, for lithium to be effective the dosage must be strictly…
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In this new section of HealthTalk online you can find out about the experiences of health researchers of involving patients and members of the public in their research, by seeing and hearing people share their stories on film. Involvement is about research being carried out with or by members of the public, who may play a role in any or every aspect of the research process. HealthTalk researchers travelled all around the UK to talk to 36 people (35 interviews) working in health research,…
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The government's Green Paper for higher education signals the biggest change to how higher education is organised and governed in England for a generation.
The implications of the proposed changes are far reaching, with the impact being felt throughout all parts of the higher education sector. Institutions must start preparing for the changing architecture and initiate planning to ensure that they will be fit for the future landscape.…
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City University London, Disability and Social Inclusion seminar on Friday January 22nd from 1.00 - 2.15pm
“Looking at illness in a very different way”: psychiatrists’ views of mental health recovery
With the development of recovery-based services (e.g. Implementing Recovery through Organisational Change (IMROC) programme to support local NHS and independent mental health service providers to become more ‘recovery’ oriented) and…
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Papers are now invited for the following panel:
Anthropology of mental health: at the intersections of transience, 'chronicity' and recovery
*ASA 2016, University of Durham, 4-7 July 2016
*Convenors: Anna Lavis (University of Birmingham) and Karin Eli (University of Oxford)
Short outline:
This panel turns its attention to the anthropology of mental illness and distress. It…
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The Working with Substance Use online resources aim to provide health and social care professionals with a basic understanding of substance use and an opportunity to enhance their practice.
The resources includes presentations, film clips from experts (both service users and professionals), animations, individual and group exercises, and practice scenarios to help apply what has been learned. Suggestions are made for future study and personal development.
These…
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The second international conference on Innovative and Critical Approaches to Higher Education will be held at Roskilde University in Denmark, June 22nd to 24th, 2016. The purpose of the conference is to bring together scholars, students and administrators who are interested in the history, theory, and practice of progressive higher education and wish to rethink and reinvigorate its strong traditions in the globalized context of the 21st century. We are therefore not only interested in papers…
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The use of first-hand service user accounts of mental illness is still limited in the professional literature available. This is, however, beginning to change, with a new ‘recovery’ focus in mental health services meaning that the voices of service users are finally being heard. Recovering from Psychosis: Empirical Evidence and Lived Experience synthesises a narrative approach alongside an evidence-based review of current treatment by including Stephen Williams’ own personal…
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This series of reports explores new forms of teaching, learning and assessment for an interactive world, to guide teachers and policy makers in productive innovation. This fourth report proposes ten innovations that are already in currency and are having an increasing effect on education.
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IASSW invites proposals for projects, designed to advance social work education internationally. Grants of up to USD 4.000 are available for proposals that can be expected to contribute to the implementation of the IASSW Mission Statement, and to the enhancement of cooperation among schools of social work world-wide.
This is continuous aspect of IASSW activities but the final submission date for the next round of bids is the 31st of May 2016. Proposals (in…
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Based at the University of Edinburgh, the Leverhulme Trust 'Neuroscience and Family Life' study will employ concepts and methods from the social sciences to examine the ways in which ideas about the brain are informing health and social services, and the individuals who make use of them.
Part of our project will involve running focus groups with a range of families in Scotland’s Central Belt. If you’re interested in participating, please…
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The role of personal experiences of mental ill-health in medical sociological research
7 June 2016, University of Edinburgh…
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This Research in Practice briefing offers an overview of the field of adolescent mental health for frontline practitioners in teams offering family support, social work and youth work. It aims to provide a broad ‘map of the territory’ and to offer some practical guidelines and tools for frontline workers who may feel they carry much of the burden of these complex and worrying problems. The briefing focuses in particular on the concept of ‘mentalisation’, an area of specialist expertise…
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The Centre for Advancement of Interprofessional Education – CAIPE – has a new membership category and is inviting people who have lived experience of health, social care and other services either as a user or as the carer of someone who uses services to become members. CAIPE would be useful for people who have an interest in or contribute to interprofessional education. Membership costs £10 for up to 3 years, and benefits include e-bulletins, website…
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The workshop will take place in Brighton on 2-3 June 2016. It is organised by the ERC Connectors Study & hosted by the Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QQ.
The workshop will bring together researchers and activists concerned with the lived experiences of activism across the lifespan, with a particular emphasis on earlier and later life experiences. It has an interest in the spaces, places and…
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If not, why not start the new year by subscribing. Asylum is a bargain, at only £16 for a print and £12 for a digital subscription.
Asylum magazine - which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year - is a forum for free debate, open to anyone with an interest in psychiatry or mental health.
It is a wonderful, and challenging, resource for us in teaching - see…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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Three sample articles are available on the Asylum website:
Beyond the Pale – Raza Griffiths
An Illustrated Mind – Kathryn Watson …
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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…
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Health Education England has commissioned 11 videos centered on real-life experience of specialists in the social work field.
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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.
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A section of the Skills for Care website has been developed for mental health social workers and AMHPs
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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…
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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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