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LIVED EXPERIENCE OF PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT
LIVED EXPERIENCE SURVEY ON…
ContinueAdded by julie gosling on March 19, 2014 at 16:12 — No Comments
Create Hope By Spreading Stigma
http://prideinmadness.wordpress.com/2013/11/30/create-hope-by-spreading-stigma/
Great post from Kirsten Bellows - Canadian E by E
Any thoughts on this campaign?
Added by julie gosling on November 30, 2013 at 20:16 — No Comments
Your Pain Is The Breaking Of The Shell
Negative Emotions Are Key to Well-Being
Feeling sad, mad, critical or otherwise awful? Surprise: negative emotions are essential for mental health
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=negative-emotions-key-well-being
By Tori Rodriguez
' ... the… Continue
Added by julie gosling on November 26, 2013 at 11:00 — 2 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…
Added by julie gosling on July 5, 2013 at 8:00 — No Comments
A GREAT DISCUSSION WAS HAD BY ALL!!
THANK YOU TO JOAN, JILL, CAROLINE, DINA, ANDREW, THURSTINE, AND BART AND ALLIES WITH LIVED EXPERIENCE FROM BELGIUM FOR CONTRIBUTING TO AN INVALUABLE TALK TONIGHT ON THE USING OF LIVED EXPERIENCE IN TEACHING AND LEARNING. I SHALL POST THE MAIN POINTS WITHOUT REFERENCE TO SPEAKERS ON THE HUB IN THE NEXT DAY OR TWO. BUT IF ANY OF THE CONTRIBUTORS PREFER THAT THEIR COMMENTS (ANONYMISED) ARE NOT INCLUDED - CAN THEY PLEASE LET ME KNOW
LOVE
JULIE
Added by julie gosling on June 18, 2013 at 20:00 — 3 Comments
THE VOICE HEARER AS A PUBLIC IDENTITY
A great intro from the even greater Angela Woods to her article which can be accessed free on the link below.
Posted on June 18, 2013 by Angela Woods on Centre For Meidcal Humanities Blog and reposted here on MHHEHUB by Julie Gosling…
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GREAT STUFF ON STORIFY #mhcurr
Added by julie gosling on June 17, 2013 at 9:30 — No Comments
TALKING ABOUT SHARING LIVED EXPERIENCES IN TEACHING AND LEARNING - TUESDAY JUNE 18th 6pm - MHHEHUB LIVE CHAT - BE HERE!!!
All question and opinions welcome. Here's some starters to get us going:
'What About My Reputation?'
Service users / tutors/students are sharing lived experience of distress and resilience in many ways within higher education:
- What helps / hinders?
- What are the risks / costs / benefits / opportunities?
- What support is required and where do we draw it from?
' Wanna Be In Our Gang?'
Some of… Continue
Added by julie gosling on June 16, 2013 at 10:30 — No Comments
CREATIVE TWEETS
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Hey Jill.
Just read Irene Mckintosh blog on creative tweeting. She has encouraged people to try and 'tweet' a work of fiction (limited edition obviously!)- I think this is a wonderful idea - and taking it further - we could tweet a rolling creative narrative - with people adding tweets that develop the story further - what do you and colleagues at the current seminar think?
Added by julie gosling on June 13, 2013 at 14:00 — 5 Comments
'TO WHOM I MAY CONCERN!'
' ... spouses have shared pride in the courage displayed by their loved ones. Professionals have been brought to tears as they acknowledge their deeper understanding about what the person with dementia experiences ... '
This great project from US enables groups of people with dementia to share experiences - then to…
Added by julie gosling on May 26, 2013 at 15:10 — No Comments
TO TELL THE TRUTH: WHY AND HOW MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS CAN AND SHOULD SELF-DISCLOSE PERSONAL PSYCHIATRIC HISTORIES
Reposted from The Institute of Recovery by John Thorpe in Linked-In group: Peer Support Network
http://www.mhrecovery.org/library/view.php?libraryitem_id=285
Among mental health professionals, self-disclosure of personal information has been a long-debated subject. Some believe this disclosure interferes with treatment. Other clinicians are… Continue
Added by julie gosling on May 24, 2013 at 9:00 — 1 Comment
DINERS RUNNING THE RESTAURANT?
Service Users owning their own Clinical Practice - It is possible?
My Time CIC is a pioneering service user owned mental health service in Birmingham which has just won a National Award for Learning for Health. My Time is founder member of the Birmingham Mental Health Consortium and is a strong advocate for service users setting up their own services. My Time has been successfully running for 11…
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DEAD WHEN I GOT THERE
Film in the making which sounds incredible:
Documentary about mental asylum run by its own patients
Since 2011 I’ve been making a feature length documentary about a man who manages a mental asylum run by its own patients in Juárez, Mexico. Apart from empathy, the patients share few resources but somehow they’ve survived the trauma of life in the world’s…
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RESEARCH FINDINGS TRANSLATED INTO BALLET!!
Here is just one example of the exceptionally creative output from Durham University's Centre For Medical Humanities and surely a wonderful beacon for the rest of us to follow. Read on ....
Ordinary Wars: Transition, Weddings, Wives, Choreography and Research
by Centre for Medical Humanities…
Added by julie gosling on May 23, 2013 at 10:00 — No Comments
GET CREATIVELY MALADJUSTED!
New post on Centre for Medical Humanities Blog… |
Added by julie gosling on May 9, 2013 at 14:43 — No Comments
THE TRUTH IS LIKE A LION!!
http://www.madinamerica.com/2013/05/truth-is-like-a-lion-the-25th-world-hearing-voices-conference/
'The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it - Let it loose; it will defend itself.'
- St Augustine
Great Rap from Rufus May (reblogged from Mad in America)
I wrote this rap a few years ago when I was in a debate with lots of CBT…
Added by julie gosling on May 7, 2013 at 15:30 — No Comments
SURVIVOR? MAD? OR ANTI-PSYCHIATRY?
APR 29. Posted by prideinmadness reblogged in MHHEHUB by Julie Gosling
http://prideinmadness.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/alternate-mental-health-communties/
I say “alternate” for a lack of a better word. Chapter 4 in Mad Matters is called, “What Makes Us a Community? Reflection on Building Solidarity in Anti-sanist Praxis” by Shaindl… Continue
Added by julie gosling on April 30, 2013 at 8:00 — No Comments
THE INMATES ARE RUNNING THE ASYLUM
Date: May 11, 2013
Location: Carnegie Community Centre, 401 Main Street (corner of Main and Hastings), Vancouver, BC Canada
An upcoming documentary about the Vancouver based Mental Patients Association: a radical mental health group founded in the 70s.
“Radical History must be public history and public history must be radical history. Activism, like history, begins with the telling.”
-Max Page,… Continue
Added by julie gosling on April 28, 2013 at 15:24 — No Comments
2013. ~ THE MAD DANCE PROJECT - JUNE 2013
http://www.maddancementalhealthfilmtrilogy.com/
Mad Dance is a trilogy of beautiful and provocative short documentary films that re-envision the way we think and speak about our individual and collective mental health in today's chaotic world. Anticipated DVD release, June 2013.
~ THE MAD DANCE PROJECT FEATURES 3 FILMS ON A SINGLE DVD… Continue
Added by julie gosling on April 19, 2013 at 20:16 — No Comments
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- AGEING IS A MENTAL DISORDER!
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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 0 Likes
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…
ContinueUnlearning through Mad Studies: disruptive pedagogical praxis
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 26, 2020 at 19:00 0 Comments 0 Likes
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…
ContinueStepchange: mentally healthy universities
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:48 0 Comments 0 Likes
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 …
ContinueThe Autumn issue of Asylum magazine is out now
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:44 0 Comments 0 Likes
Three sample articles are available on the Asylum website:
Beyond the Pale – Raza Griffiths
An Illustrated Mind – Kathryn Watson …
ContinueThink Ahead gets funding to boost its intake.
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:41 0 Comments 0 Likes
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…
ContinueTransforming Mental Health Social Work videos
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:39 0 Comments 0 Likes
Health Education England has commissioned 11 videos centered on real-life experience of specialists in the social work field.
Transforming mental health social work - conference report
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:37 0 Comments 0 Likes
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.
Leadership in mental health social work - web pages
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:33 0 Comments 0 Likes
A section of the Skills for Care website has been developed for mental health social workers and AMHPs
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 1 Like
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…
ContinueMental health nurse education: perceptions, access and the pandemic
Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:25 0 Comments 0 Likes
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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