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CALL ME CRAZY - STORIES FROM THE MAD MOVEMENT

Great post from Pride In Madness







Call Me Crazy: Stories from the Mad Movement

APR 15. Posted by prideinmadness



http://prideinmadness.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/call-me-crazy-stories-from-the-mad-movement/



At 3 am I got the email saying Call Me Crazy: Stories from the Mad Movement by Irit Shimrat arrived at the library closest to and was ready… Continue

Added by julie gosling on April 15, 2013 at 18:00 — No Comments

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

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

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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Added by julie gosling on April 3, 2013 at 18:52 — No Comments

Sanism, ‘Mental Health’, and Social Work/Education: A Review and Call to Action

http://journals.library.mun.ca/ojs/index.php/IJ/article/view/348



Sanism, ‘Mental Health’, and Social Work/Education: A Review and Call to Action



Jennifer M. Poole, Tania Jivraj, Araxi Arslanian, Kristen Bellows, Sheila Chiasson, Husnia Hakimy, Jessica Pasini, and Jenna Reid



Abstract

Sanism is a devastating form of oppression, often leading to negative stereotyping or arguments… Continue

Added by julie gosling on March 21, 2013 at 11:56 — 2 Comments

NO MORE TREATMENT WITHOUT CONSENT

http://www.mdac.info/en/05/03/2013/un-torture-expert-no-more-treatment-without-consent



The report and the statement are together groundbreaking contributions to global efforts to mainstream standards of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) across all human rights mechanisms. This has been a key strand of MDAC’s advocacy for the last three years. The word… Continue

Added by julie gosling on March 19, 2013 at 8:51 — No Comments

SOCIAL NETWORKING - MENTAL HEALTH 'PORTAL' or 'PITFALL'

Does the Internet and social networking sites such as Facebook offer opportunities for WELLBEING and inclusion or alternatively do they fuel addictions and cause loneliness and distress?



Michael Poh on the Hongkiat site offers brief discussions in blogs such as:



http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/facebook-addiction-signs/

7 Telltale Signs Of Facebook Addiction.

and…

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Added by julie gosling on January 28, 2013 at 22:00 — No Comments

MAY WE ALL LIVE EACH AND EVERY DAY IN CREATIVE MALADJUSTMENT!

CREATIVE MALADJUSTMENT WEEK (July 7-July 14, 2013) is only 6 months away! On this national day in celebration of the founder of the International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment [IAACM], MindFreedom echoes the famous words of Martin Luther King, Jr. in saying that "the salvation of the world lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted!"…



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Added by julie gosling on January 27, 2013 at 21:30 — No Comments

SHACKLED TO THE SYSTEM

False Arguments: A Three-Part Story - Sera Davidow. January 15, 2013



http://www.madinamerica.com/2013/01/false-arguments-a-three-part-story/



PART 1 of Sara Davidow's excellent blog offers a humorous, passionate and deeply incisive perspective on defining and colonising of human experience and finishes with the moving and insightful poem 'Tools are Shackles'



Extracts:

'...… Continue

Added by julie gosling on January 18, 2013 at 0:38 — 2 Comments

RESTORING MEANING IN MADNESS

More Thinking about Alternatives to Psychiatric Diagnosis

Lucy Johnstone - January 15, 2013 - MadinAmerica



http://www.madinamerica.com/2013/01/more-thinking-about-alternatives-to-psychiatric-diagnosis/



a useful and informed blog exploring a psychological alternative to psychiatry



Extracts:

the most important function of any alternative system is… Continue

Added by julie gosling on January 18, 2013 at 0:14 — No Comments

OPEN DIALOGUE VIDEO

http://www.madinamerica.com/2012/06/open-dialogue/

Mad in America present a trailer of the excellent video by Daniel Mackler detailing the success of Finland's 'talking interventions' in treating psychoses. The video can be ordered via this link

Added by julie gosling on January 17, 2013 at 23:31 — No Comments

Canada follows Finland with an Open Dialogue pilot

http://www.7dvt.com/2013burlingtons-howardcenter-tries-new-approach-treating-mental-illness-more-talking-fewer-meds



Article by Ken Pickard in SEVEN DAYS - Vermont's Independent Voice - 16.01.13



extracts:

“If you’ve just spent your entire career giving people these drugs, and in many cases convincing people why this is what they really need… Continue

Added by julie gosling on January 17, 2013 at 23:23 — No Comments

The Danger of Benzodiazepine

http://recovery-road.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Times-article-16.01.2013.pdf

recovery-road.org



The Times

Martin Barrow Health Editor Published at 12:01AM, January 16 2013



Extract:

Doctors are being told to curb the prescription of sleeping pills and tranquillisers to millions of people after admitting that they can be highly addictive and have devastating… Continue

Added by julie gosling on January 17, 2013 at 0:25 — No Comments

PETER BREGGIN - THE CONSCIENCE OF PSYCHIATRY

There is always food for thought in Peter Breggin's on-line publications. He has aptly been titled the 'conscience' of psychiatry



December 2012 Dr. Breggins Empathic Therapy Newsletter



http://secure.campaigner.com/Campaigner/Public/t.show?ZFcL--Herj-1TC4cS8



This editions content includes:

Psychiatry Has No Answer To Gun Massacres - Peter Breggin - 22/12/12…



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Added by julie gosling on January 16, 2013 at 23:30 — No Comments

Blog Posts

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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