4-5pm today.  Scroll down for chat screen.

See here.

Pick up news from the mhhe twitter feed (dark panel on the right).  Don't leave us! To view a link without leaving mhhehub, right click on it and choose 'open in new window'.  

In order to work effectively, social workers need to understand theoretical concepts and develop critical theory. In "Social Work and Social Theory," Paul Michael Garrett seeks to bring the profession into dialogue with the anti-capitalist movement and encourages a new engagement with theorists such as Antonio Gramsci, Pierre Bourdieu, and Nancy Fraser. It provides an accessible and exhilarating introduction for practitioners, students, and social work academics interested in social theory…

This guide is for those new to teaching who work with diverse groups of students on mainstream undergraduate and taught postgraduate courses in UK higher education (HE).

This guide will be useful to those who want to:

• learn about cultural diversity in approaches to learning;
• pick up techniques for engaging all students in a range of contexts;
• uncover their own assumptions and relate them to their teaching practices.…

Hi, All 

Came across a brilliant (i think) cartoon in Community Care about the 'Big Society'. 

attaching here and hope it makes you smile...

Dina 

The Mental Elf is looking for people who share a commitment to delivering quality-filtered updates of emerging evidence that focus on the needs of health and social care professionals. It would also help if you like elves!

You might be a subject specialist, a clinician, a researcher, a student or even an information scientist. If you want to use your research and writing skills to make a real difference to patient care,…

The next mhhehub chat session will be held on Tuesday 5 February at 4pm.  Just sign in to the hub and scroll down to the bottom of the home page for the chat screen.  Chats provide an opportunity to introduce yourself and network with other hub members.  This time we will also be talking about some implications for teaching of the articles here (absolutely no need to read them all -…

Hello,

Would anyone else like the idea of a 'critical friends' group on here for people who are writing? The idea would be that the members could review each others work prior to submission elsewhere? It wouldn't be a lot of work in that only one person would have to view each offering for it to be of use. I for one reach a point with something I'm writing and can't see 'wood for trees' and really value another angle/perspective. If there are some responses I'll create a group for…

Short film produced by IRISS and East Dunbartonshire Council.  A resource for use in teaching?

View here.

Throughout 2011/12, CQC commissioners visited 1,546 wards, of which 811 were unannounced and 95 took place on weekends.  Commissioners spoke to patients and staff, checked care plans and other documents, examined the state of wards and more.  This report, published today, contains their findings.

View the report and summary.

Adult safeguarding is about looking out for the people around us and protecting them from harm. Anyone can find themselves in a difficult situation where there is a possibility that they might be harmed, but when the situation involves someone who needs extra support – known as ‘an adult at risk’ – the situation becomes critical.

The resource explores the following questions:

• What is ‘adult safeguarding’ and how does it affect each and every one of…

Just wanted to say how good it is to see the MHHE network group growing.  Its wonderful to be able to welcome new members and there is clearly more and more activity on the website.

May be useful for teaching.  Made by the brilliant Mosaic Films, who also made Animated Minds.

View three short films about poverty here.

The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) is now seeking views from stakeholders as part of a new consultation on draft criteria for approving Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) education programmes in England.



Until its closure last year, the General Social Care Council (GSCC) had statutory responsibility for approving AMHP education programmes in England. The HCPC have now taken on this responsibility.



The criteria under…

The Higher Education Academy (HEA) is inviting students to participate as ‘jurors’ in a major social mobility conference to be held in Manchester on 26 - 27 March 2013.

The two-day conference, ‘What can higher education contribute to improving social mobility in the UK?’ will examine the contribution of higher education to improving social mobility in the UK. 

The HEA is looking for 12…

Haunted by visions of his father, Mark thought he’d won the jackpot when he discovered he was going to be housed. But now, safe and secure in his apartment, he’s overwhelmed by a new fear – will he lose his home when the study ends? 



This short film is a chapter from Here At Home, a web documentary about mental health and homelessness that takes us inside the Mental Health Commission of Canada's At Home pilot project.…