April 2013 Blog Posts (28)

50 MILLION MISSING

50 Million Missing



50 million Indian women have been reported missing in just three generations. In 20 years, 20 per cent of women in India will have been exterminated through gendercide, female foeticide and infanticide, dowry killings, murder for giving birth to girl infants, and the outcomes of repeated pregnancies and abortions. A history of collective shame, these crimes are just some of the many gender-related travesties that are impacting upon the mental well-being and human… Continue

Added by julie gosling on April 10, 2013 at 21:21 — 1 Comment

McPin Foundation

The McPin Foundation exists to transform mental health research by putting the lived experience of people affected by mental health problems at the heart of research methods and the research agenda. 

It works in three main ways:

  • Through conducting user focused mental health research. 
  • Through building the capacity of others to conduct user focused mental health research.  
  • Through seeking to influence methods, practice and decision…
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Added by Jill Anderson on April 10, 2013 at 18:49 — No Comments

Help define mental health social research priorities

Centre for Mental Health Social Research

The Centre for Mental Health Social Research is a collaborative centre bringing together researchers at the University of York undertaking social science research into mental health and well-being. Based in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, the Centre's research focuses on social perspectives in mental health through the life course from childhood to old age. The Centre meets a need for research into the social, economic and…

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Added by Jill Anderson on April 10, 2013 at 18:42 — No Comments

We need a new language for mental health - discussion hosted by the Reader

The Reader Organisation is calling for a new language to talk about mental health, with senior health professionals, readers and writers discussing the idea in the opening session of the charity’s annual conference, ‘Shared Reading for Healthy Communities’ at the British Library on 16th May 2013.

Unlike the growing number of ‘Books on Prescription’ and ‘Bibliotherapy’ schemes, The Reader Organisation, which is commissioned by health services across the UK, has chosen not to limit the…

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Added by Jill Anderson on April 10, 2013 at 10:33 — 1 Comment

Student mental health

I am attaching a link to a newsletter produced at the University of Bradford on student mental health.  This is distributed amongst staff and students.

headivalmag2.docx

This may be of interest.

Kate

Added by Kate Karban on April 9, 2013 at 8:42 — 3 Comments

TWO TYPES OF MADNESS

A GREAT POST FROM KIRSTEN BELLOWS IN CANADA ON HER 'PRIDE IN MADNESS' BLOG





Two Types of Mad. APR 6. Posted by prideinmadness



I self identify as a Mad person. I am someone who has a psychiatric history and I wear the reclaimed title of Mad with great pride (see where I got my blog name?)



http://prideinmadness.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/two-types-of-mad/



I was very… Continue

Added by julie gosling on April 7, 2013 at 11:34 — No Comments

Souzou - Outside art from Japan

Exhibition at the Wellcome Collection. The 46 artists represented in the show are residents and day attendees at social welfare institutions across Japan. The wonderfully diverse collection comprises ceramics, textiles, paintings, sculpture and drawings.

'Souzou' has no direct translation in English but a dual meaning in Japanese: written one way, it means creation, and in another it means imagination. Both meanings allude to a force by which new ideas are born and take shape in the…

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Added by Jill Anderson on April 6, 2013 at 21:44 — 2 Comments

CALDARA - A VERY BEAUTIFUL EXPERIENCE

BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL FILM - Caldera (2012)

from Evan Viera PLUS



https://vimeo.com/62596239



orchidanimation.com | facebook.com/evanvieraanimation

AWARDS

Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction

Award of Innovation - Seattle International Film Festival

Best Animated Film - Rome Independent Film…

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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

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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Unlearning through Mad Studies: disruptive pedagogical praxis

Posted by Jill Anderson on October 26, 2020 at 19:00 0 Comments

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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Stepchange: mentally healthy universities

Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:48 0 Comments

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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Think Ahead gets funding to boost its intake.

Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:41 0 Comments

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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Transforming Mental Health Social Work videos

Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:39 0 Comments

Health Education England has commissioned 11 videos centered on real-life experience of specialists in the social work field.

See the video playlist.

Transforming mental health social work - conference report

Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:37 0 Comments

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. 

Download the conference report.

Leadership in mental health social work - web pages

Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:33 0 Comments

A section of the Skills for Care website has been developed for mental health social workers and AMHPs

View the web pages here.

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

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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Mental health nurse education: perceptions, access and the pandemic

Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:25 0 Comments

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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