Enhancing learning and teaching about mental health across the disciplines
This may be of interest. Free dropbox space for university students. See here for details:
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Rethink petition: http://www.rethink.org/how_we_can_help/our_campaigns/current_campaigns/bring_back_the_menta.html
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Sanctuary tells the stories of six asylum seekers and refugees living in Glasgow, and aims to address the stigma and discrimination often experienced by asylum seekers and refugees. With Glasgow hosting increasing numbers of asylum seekers and refugees over the last few years, it was considered a priority to ensure the mental health of this social group. With stigma and discrimination often an issue, there is a reluctance for people with mental health issues to seek help within these…
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The latest edition of the SPN newsletter is online. The AGM is on 22 November 2012 in London and they are seeking new committee members. http://www.spn.org.uk/index.php?id=1255
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'Diseases of the body garner sympathy, says comedian Ruby Wax -- except those of the brain. Why is that? With dazzling energy and humor, Wax, diagnosed a decade ago with clinical depression, urges us to put an end to the stigma of mental illness.
Ruby Wax is a loud, funny woman -- who spent much of her comedy career battling depression in silence. Now her work blends mental health advocacy and laughs'.…
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This is a short documentary - produced by Ryerson University - in which 12 Toronto activists discuss how they identify themselves. View on youtube.…
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.. . paint a depressing picture. See: http://martinwebber.net/?p=750
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Blog posting by Martin Webber. View here.
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Special issue of Research Papers in Education has a focus on this theme. See here for further details.
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The HEA has opened the call for its Student retention and success change programme which has been designed to examine reasons for low rates of student satisfaction.
The three-year programme builds on the learning from the ‘What works? Student retention and success programme’, funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
Surveys show that between 33% and 42% of students consider leaving university in their first year.…
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Calls are now open for the HEA's Green Academy Change Programme. The programme aims to address challenges of embedding sustainable development in the curriculum and making graduates more globally aware and sustainability literate citizens.
It will draw on theories of change and recent national and international research on sustainability in higher education to support evidence-informed change at institutional level.
The call closes at 5pm on Tuesday 27 November 2012 and…
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World Mental Health Day raises public awareness about mental health issues. The day promotes open discussion of 'mental disorders', and investments in prevention, promotion and treatment services. This year the theme for the day is “Depression: A Global Crisis”.
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Final report now available: http://www.healthyuniversities.ac.uk/uploads/files/hu_final_report_1.pdf
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Men, suicide and society: why disadvantaged men in midlife die by suicide. Samaritans research report.
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New report by Alison Faulkner and Jayasree Kalathil, commissioned by Together.
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A collection of ideas, examples, information and research about therapeutic mental health inpatient care.
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Article in new journal - Intersectionalities.
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In the last year a range of radical education projects have sprung up across the UK. With the threat to academic values posed by the coalition government’s higher education ‘reforms’, it seems that people across a range of institutions (and outside of them) are trying to explore different, freer and more autonomous ways of learning.
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This book addresses philosophical issues - including conceptual challenges and opportunities - raised by the notion of recovery of people with experience of mental ill health.
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Interesting blog post by Martin Webber, advertising the Mental Elf: http://martinwebber.net/?p=688
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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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