Enhancing learning and teaching about mental health across the disciplines
The articles in this special issue provide a range of perspectives on recovery. Some authors adopt recovery wholeheartedly and present examples of innovative work or evaluations of projects. Other…
Blog Clinical Psychology Forum - special issue on recovery 5 LikesMoccasin Bend is a river peninsula in Chattanooga Tennessee where stands a state psychiatric institution. Timothy Kelly was a patient there in 1997, and brought the stories of his mother who…
Blog Mocassin Bend - a place based autoethnography of psychosis 1 LikeJust to alert you all to a book coming out in October by Routledge.
It is based on a series of projects in which mental health service users spoke at length about their production and…
Blog Narratives of Art Practice and Mental Wellbeing: Reparation & Connection 1 Like Update to MH Online Resource MapHi all,
Just letting you know that I have made some updates to the MH Online Resource Map so please use the latest version:…
Dear Members,
I have put together a list of online resources which you may find useful - I have included MHHE too…
Blog Online Mental Health Resources 1 LikeA massive open online course (MOOC) is a course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course materials MOOCs provide interactive user forums that…
Blog Mental Health MOOCs 3 LikesThere has been a recent growth in the use of social media tools in social work education. This edited text presents a series of chapters which discuss social media activities and how they can…
Blog Social Media in Social Work Education 1 Like The Water Tower - mental health and creative practiceThe Water Tower is a short film about an Arts Council funded project bringing psychiatric patients and NHS staff into a beautiful space for a series of creative workshops. The film explores…
Blog The Water Tower - mental health and creative practice 1 Like Psychiatry in Context: new bookThis book, by Phil Thomas will be a great resource for AMHPs and psychiatry trainees, as well as students of mental health across all disciplines.…
The Open Futures Network is service user and community led, bringing together local groups and local services, artists, activists, health care professionals and academics within collaborative and…
Blog Promoting MH, reslience and wellbeing through Open Dialogue in Nottingham. 1 Like The Flogsta Roar - filmFlogsta is a shabby student ghetto in Uppsala, Sweden. Within the cramped walls of its dormitories, a multitude of dramas play out, involving broken frying pans, a never-ending orchestra…
Blog The Flogsta Roar - film 1 Like Psychiatry for Medical Students: need for a more holistic approach to teaching.Interesting letter in the Psychiatric Bulletin. Original link and contact details here.
Psychiatry for…
Rachel Cooper's new book Diagnosing the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Karnac, 2014) has just been published. The Diagnostic and Statistical…
Blog Diagnosing the diagnostic and statistical manual 2 LikesPosted 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…
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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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