Enhancing learning and teaching about mental health across the disciplines
Social Work Blues: the experiences of a mental health survivor as a professional social worker, by Philip Hill.
Publisher's information. 'This is an account of how Philip Hill, a mental…
Blog Social Work Blues: new book 1 Like Women, disability and mental distress - new bookOver recent decades an increasing amount of attention has been paid to identifying and meeting the individual support needs of mental health service users and people with physical impairments in…
Blog Women, disability and mental distress - new book 1 LikeThe Higher Education Academy’s Embedding Equality and Diversity in the Curriculum project has today published five discipline specific practitioner…
Blog Discipline Specific Guides on embedding equality and diversity - published by the HEA 1 Like Enlivened LearningWhat space is there in education, for wisdom, for Enlivened Learning – a holistic learning that can emerge with our heart, our heads, our hands and our connection to the…
Blog Enlivened Learning 1 LikeThe Sanctuary Model represents a theory-based, trauma-informed, evidence-supported, whole culture approach that has a clear and structured methodology for creating or changing an organisational…
Blog The Sanctuary Model 1 Like Breaking Down is Waking Up: recent bookThis book explores a new way of understanding psychological and mental distress based on Dr Razzaque's work as a consultant psychiatrist, together with the insights he has gained as a…
Blog Breaking Down is Waking Up: recent book 3 Likes Fit Mind, Fit Job: from evidence to practice in mental health and workThe costs of mental ill-health for individuals, employers and society at large are enormous. Mental distress is responsible for a very significant loss of potential labour supply, high rates…
Blog Fit Mind, Fit Job: from evidence to practice in mental health and work 1 Like Landscapes of Helping: kindliness in neighbourhoods and communitiesThe giving and receiving of informal acts of help, or kindliness, is taken for granted in many communities. However this is an area which is little researched or understood.
This paper…
Blog Landscapes of Helping: kindliness in neighbourhoods and communities 1 Like Mental Health Taskforce launchedAs signalled in the NHS Five Year Forward View, a new Taskforce is being established to develop a…
Blog Mental Health Taskforce launched 1 Like Asylum magazine - latest issue, on mental health in comics, out now!Asylum magazine is a forum for free debate, open to anyone with an interest in psychiatry or mental health. Asylum especially welcomes contributions from service users or ex-users (or…
Blog Asylum magazine - latest issue, on mental health in comics, out now! 1 LikePosted 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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