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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…
Blog Social work education and training in mental health, addictions and suicide: a scoping review protocol 1 LikeNovember 2019
Labelled as the suicide capital of England and Wales, where one person is dying every week, St Helens needs some love, it needs some Madlove……
Blog MadLove take over 2 Likes
November 2018
There is growing recognition of the importance of kindness and relationships…
October 2018
Yesterday, on World Mental Health Day (10 October 2018), Action for Care-Workers Wellbeing (ACW) was launched.
Facilitated by BASW, ACW is a collaborative network of professionals from the…
Blog Action for Care Workers' Wellbeing 2 LikesSeptember 2018
Advance HE has issued a comprehensive new guide: “Religion and Belief: supporting inclusion of staff and students in higher education and colleges" to higher education institutions…
Blog Religion and Belief: supporting inclusion of staff and students in higher education and colleges 1 LikeNovember 2017
'The International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal (IIPDW) was created to respond to a glaring need in mental health: to develop ways for helping people withdraw from psychiatric…
Blog International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal 2 Likes Drayton Park women's crisis house - interview with Shirley McNicholasDrayton 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 LikesAugust 2017
Following the CCrAMHP meeting in Lancaster on 11 August, we created a collection of links on nature and…
Blog Nature and wellbeing - links 1 LikeMarch 2017
Normalising spiritual experiences is fundamentally a Human Rights issue.
Article 9 of the Human Rights Act states a right to Freedom of thought, belief and Religion. And yet…
Blog Emerging Proud 1 LikeFebruary 2017
There is surprisingly little evidence of the role that pets play in the lives of people living with…
Blog The role of pets in supporting people living with mental distress 1 LikeJanuary 2017
What is behind any work of art? Why do people make art? There are so many different ways of expressing ideas in a creative way – Painting, Pottery, Photography, Music, Model Making, Crafts,…
Blog Behind the Art - documentary film series 1 Like ResearchI work as a lived experience development worker in the NHS. My role is to support and develop ways of getting the service receiver voice and perspective heard in undergraduate medical education…
Blog Research 2 Likes Universities UK: Mental Health and Wellbeing in Higher Education ProgrammeUniversities UK has just established a Mental Health and Wellbeing in HE programme. 'The scope of the programme includes appropriate provision for those experiencing difficulties or mental…
Blog Universities UK: Mental Health and Wellbeing in Higher Education Programme 1 LikeDecember 2016
This journal was proud to produce the first special edition on service user involvement in 2006 (Vol25 No.4) with 11 pioneering articles from the UK. One of those authors contributing to the first…
Blog Service user and carer involvement in social work education - where are we now? 1 LikeNovember 2016
This 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 Likes Being Black, Going Crazy? BBC 3 documenaryBlack people in the UK are more likely to be both diagnosed with a significant mental health condition and to be sectioned.
In this authored documentary, blogger and radio presenter Keith…
Blog Being Black, Going Crazy? BBC 3 documenary 1 LikeJune 2016
While there has been considerable and welcome attention in the area of dementia over recent years, the mental health of people in later life, and specifically the complex…
Blog The interface between dementia and mental health - new report 1 LikeMay 2016
Social work’s traditional location between mainstream and marginalized society, its commitment to serving oppressed people, and its professional mandate to promote a more just social order,…
Blog Global Partnership for Transformative Social Work 1 LikeApril 2016
From the Recovery in the Bin website. A useful teaching resource.
"Following a few comments on our Facebook Group, about how some of us were lounging about in our PJs on…
Blog Women's experience in the psychiatric service - appearance and articulacy 1 LikeMarch 2016
Since 2014, British Universities and Collegest Sport (BUCS) has been working with Student Minds to develop a package of support which can be offered to universities across the country, using sport…
Blog Mental health and sport in higher education. 1 LikeBlog Posts
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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