July 2013 Blog Posts (31)

Living well with long-term depression - new video

This documentary explores people's experiences of living with longer-term depression, and how self-management approaches can empower individuals to take control of their mental well being. The film also gives a powerful insight into how service-user involvement has helped shaped a new approach.

View the documentary here.

Use the comments box below to share your thoughts on it, and its potential for use…

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Added by Jill Anderson on July 12, 2013 at 10:08 — No Comments

Call opens for HEA doctoral programme awards

The Higher Education Academy is inviting bids from UK higher education institutions to host one or more doctoral studentships for the academic years 2014-15 to 2017-18.

The Mike Baker Doctoral Programme forms part of the HEA's strategy to undertake a significant and extensive study to develop pedagogical knowledge and evidence based practice in Higher Education.

Calls open today, 9 July 2013, and the closing date for submissions is 23 September 2013. Applicants will find out if…

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Added by Jill Anderson on July 12, 2013 at 9:58 — No Comments

Rhizomatic education: community as curriculum.

'The increasingly transitory nature of what is lauded as current or accurate in new and developing fields, as well as the pace of change in Western culture more broadly, has made it difficult for society in general and education in particular to define what counts as knowledge. The existing educational model with its expert-centered pedagogical planning and publishing cycle is too static and prescribed to accommodate the kind of fluid, transitory conception of knowledge that is necessary to…

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Added by Jill Anderson on July 12, 2013 at 9:55 — No Comments

Request for film suggestions: emotional wellbeing and diversity

Jenny Shuttleworth is looking for recommendations for films that will stimulate debate about emotional wellbeing & diversity.  Any suggestions?

Added by Jill Anderson on July 12, 2013 at 9:51 — 2 Comments

Forming social citizens - the role of universities: interesting blog posting.

The value of the university cannot be reduced to a monetised figure. By drawing from human development discourse and the capabilities approach, Melanie Walker argues the university can be re-imagined in terms of its commitment to individual freedoms, social citizenship formation and social change. The university should have an active role, engaged in local and global spaces, to foster and support a just and sustainable society.…

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Added by Jill Anderson on July 12, 2013 at 9:49 — No Comments

Journal of Health and Social Care Education

Latest issue is out now

 

Added by Jill Anderson on July 12, 2013 at 9:42 — No Comments

HEA teaching development grants - departmental round.

Departmental teams can apply for up to £30,000 to fund projects that encourage cooperation between colleagues while enhancing learning and teaching.

Successful bids will include scope for long-term impact with opportunities for evaluation and dissemination.

Applications should relate to one of the main HEA themes: assessment and feedback, education for sustainability, employability, flexible learning, internationalisation, online learning, retention and success, reward and…

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Added by Jill Anderson on July 12, 2013 at 9:30 — No Comments

JSWEC conference - follow the activity

The Joint Social Work Education conference is taking place this week and is a hive of ideas and activity:

http://www.jswec.net/conference/

You can follow it on twitter using hashtag: #JSWEC

Added by Jill Anderson on July 11, 2013 at 10:43 — No Comments

Free conference in York on 'chronic conditions'

See here http://www.york.ac.uk/c2d2/1st-conference/ for the conference details. I'm starting to notice the word 'chronic' creep in ....

Added by Bill Penson on July 9, 2013 at 7:00 — No Comments

CREATIVE MALADJUSTMENT WEEK HAS ARRIVED

Please join in:
http://www.mindfreedom.org/
A global celebration of critical reflection and non-violent action - explore the roots of bad solutions and replace them with kindness creativity and non-conformism -
Action from the heart - July 7 - July 13 - and after

Added by julie gosling on July 6, 2013 at 19:30 — 2 Comments

AGEING IS A MENTAL DISORDER!

http://www.cchr.org.uk/campaigns-overview/elderly-at-risk/

Reported from the above site



Elderly at Risk

Citizens Commission for Human Rights. July 4th 2013



The wholesale drugging of the elderly in both private and public nursing homes has reached epidemic levels, with the use of anti-psychotics, anti-anxiety drugs (tranquilizers) and antidepressants.



Patients are being harmed and…

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Added by julie gosling on July 5, 2013 at 8:00 — No Comments

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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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