Enhancing learning and teaching about mental health across the disciplines
A mental health documentary exploring people's encounters with psychiatric medication. It is not giving advice. It is giving a voice. Beyond chemicals, how does the idea of medication…
Blog Medicating me: personal impressions of psychiatric medication 1 LikePersonification Across Disciplines (PAD 2018) -An interdisciplinary conference at Durham University
17-19 September 2018
Keynote speakers: …
Blog Personification Across Disciplines - call for papers 1 LikeDrayton Park women’s crisis house in North London offers an alternative to hospital admission for women experiencing mental health crises. It was Shirley McNicholas’ vision that brought it…
Blog Drayton Park women's crisis house - interview with Shirley McNicholas 2 Likes Trauma informed education in mental health nursingStirling University film looking at MH through a Trauma Lens featuring staff, graduates & clinicians.…
Blog Trauma informed education in mental health nursing 1 Like"When we globalize mental health, concepts of mental health, practices, and the ideology behind them, we are globalizing a particular way of being a person, a contemporary Western…
Blog Why Export Mental Health - interesting video 2 LikesThreshold concepts are ideas or ways of looking at things that enable a deep grasp of something in the world; the phrase ‘threshold’ signifies the crossing that a learner is enable to make between…
Blog Reflecting on Threshold Concepts: an introductory tool 1 LikeThis survey is from the Mental Health Alliance, a coalition of more than 75 organisations from across the mental health spectrum and beyond that work together to advocate for fair…
Blog Survey on the Mental Health Act 2 LikesThis resource comes out of five years working with health workers and activists under the title of Surviving Work. This involved running courses and discussion events and weekly blogging on topics…
Blog Surviving work in health 1 LikeThese materials have been produced - as part of a multilateral EU funded project - for Master's level students and teachers, for professionals to update their knowledge and for the service…
Blog eMenthe - elearning materials on mental health 1 Like Understanding psychiatric diagnosis in adult mental healthThis leaflet is designed to help people make sense of psychiatric diagnosis in adult mental health. It was produced by the British Psychological Society’s Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP) in…
Blog Understanding psychiatric diagnosis in adult mental health 1 LikeThis recently published report concludes that the administrative elements of care co-ordination reduce opportunities for recovery-focused and personalised work. The research indicates few shared…
Blog Recovery-focused mental health care planning and co-ordination: Collaborative Care Planning Project (COCAPP) report 1 Like Nature-based interventions for mental health care: new reportA report published today (9 February 2016) shows that taking part in nature-based activities helps people who are suffering from mental ill-health and can contribute to a reduction in levels of…
Blog Nature-based interventions for mental health care: new report 1 Like Children and Young People's Mental Health ResearchThe National Institute for Health Research has created these pages to give children and young people an understanding of research, why it is important and how they can find out more.…
Blog Children and Young People's Mental Health Research 1 Like Peer Support: a shared journey - two films from the Institute of Mental Health Blog Peer Support: a shared journey - two films from the Institute of Mental Health 2 LikesWhen Katherine Sharpe arrived at her college health center with an age-old complaint—a bad case of homesickness—she received a thoroughly modern response: a twenty-minute appointment and a…
Blog Coming of Age on Zoloft 1 Like “Looking at illness in a very different way”: psychiatrists’ views of mental health recoveryCity University London, Disability and Social Inclusion seminar on Friday January 22nd from 1.00 - 2.15pm
“Looking at illness in a very different way”:…
The use of first-hand service user accounts of mental illness is still limited in the professional literature available. This is, however, beginning to change, with a new ‘recovery’ focus in…
Blog Recovering from Psychosis: empirical evidence and lived experience - new book 4 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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