Enhancing learning and teaching about mental health across the disciplines
Asylum Magazine
A forum for free and open debate about controversial issues in mental health and psychiatry.
Beck Road Alliance
The Beck Road Alliance (BRA) exists to support survivors of organised childhood sexual abuse on Beck Road, Hackney, and ALL survivors EVERYWHERE, to share their testimonies of surviving childhood sexual abuse.
http://www.jacquidillon.org/beck-road-alliance/
Bridge Collective CIC [Exeter]
A democratic community where people who have experiences, beliefs, and feelings that have sometimes been labelled as mental illness are welcomed and can talk about these experiences freely, safely and without judgement; a place to participate in friendship, support, learning, teaching, discussion, being active, and making a valid contribution both within the collective and the wider community.
http://www.bridgecollective.org.uk/
Critical and Creative Approaches to Mental Health Practice [Lancaster]
A discussion group - for all who are passionate about sustaining creative and critical practice in mental health.
Critical Mental Health Nurses' Network
The CMHNN has been formed by a group of critically minded nurses and student nurses and has attracted substantial attention since its launch in April 2015. It is a network in which anyone who is interested in the quality of mental health nursing may participate.
https://criticalmhnursing.org/
Critical Psychiatry Network
A network primarily for psychiatrists, psychiatric trainees and medical students with an interest in psychiatry.
http://www.criticalpsychiatry.co.uk/
Community Psychology UK
A movement of community psychology in the UK. Together we hope to empower, liberate and achieve improved well-being for all.
http://communitypsychologyuk.ning.com/
Evolving Minds
Evolving Minds is a public meeting which meets on the first Monday of each at 7.30pm the Stubbing Wharf pub, Hebden Bridge, to discuss different approaches to mental health problems.
http://www.rufusmay.com/index.php/resources/36-what-is-evolving-minds
The Free Psychotherapy Network
A group of psychotherapists offering free and low-fee psychotherapy to people on low incomes.
https://freepsychotherapynetwork.com/
Hearing Voices Network
Supports local groups, provides a forum, website and resources.
https://www.hearing-voices.org/
ISPS UK
ISPS promotes psychological and social approaches to psychosis. ISPS UK is the United Kingdom network of the International organisation ISPS – International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis (formerly known as the International Society for the Psychological Treatment of the Schizophrenias and other Psychoses).
Mad Pride Hull
Mad Pride is about getting people talking about madness, and challenging the tyranny of normality, in creative ways.
Mad Studies Network
This started as a website for the Mad Studies stream at Lancaster Disability Studies conference 2014. At first it just had the abstracts and programme from the conference. But since then it has grown. Those who attended the conference thought it might a good idea to begin an international network, so that those involved with Mad Studies could connect with each other, share work and ideas.
https://madstudies2014.wordpress.com/
See also, Ragged University’s Mad World Archive - a collection of critical perspectives in the area of Mad Studies.
https://www.raggeduniversity.co.uk/mad-world-archive/
Mental Health Under Capitalism [London]
Mental Health Under Capitalism" is a debate and peer support group, discussing specific topics around mental health in our society, such as The Happiness Industry, Managing Hearts (self-care) and hearing voices.
https://en-gb.facebook.com/MentalHealthUnderCapitalism/
National Paranoia Network
The Paranoia Network was originally launched in 2004. It is run by Peter Bullimore, Kate Crawford and Tori Reeve, the organisation aims to raise awareness of how disabling paranoia can be and to breakdown social taboos.
http://www.nationalparanoianetwork.org/
National Survivor User Network
NSUN network for mental health is an independent, service-user-led charity that connects people with experience of mental health issues to give us a stronger voice in shaping policy and services.
See also: NSUN directory of groups - http://www.nsun.org.uk/groups/
Psychologists for Social Change
Psychologists for Social Change is a network of applied psychologists, academics, therapists, psychology graduates and others who are interested in applying psychology to policy and political action.
Recovery in the Bin
This User Led group is for MH Survivors and Supporters who are fed up with the way colonised ‘recovery’ is being used to discipline and control those who are trying to find a place in the world, to live as they wish, trying to deal with the very real mental distress they encounter on a daily basis. We believe in human rights and social justice!
ReVision [Liverpool]
A coalition of radical activists who believe in the social model of mental health.
Contact: revision.liverpool@hotmail.co.uk
Shatter Boys UK
A peer support groups for adult male survivors of child sexual abuse.
https://shatterboysuk.wordpress.com/
Social Perspectives Network
The Social Perspectives Network is a unique coalition of service users/survivors, carers, policy makers, academics, students and practitioners interested in how social factors both contribute to people becoming distressed, and play a crucial part in promoting people’s recovery.
Social Work Action Network
SWAN is a loose network of social work practitioners, academics, students and social welfare service users united in their concern that social work activity is being undermined by managerialism and marketisation, by the stigmatisation of service users and by welfare cuts and restrictions.
http://www.socialworkfuture.org
Soteria Network
A network of people in the UK promoting the development of drug-free and minimum medication therapeutic environments for people experiencing 'psychosis' or extreme states.
http://www.soterianetwork.org.uk/
Survivors History Group
The Survivors History Group was founded in April 2005 to value and celebrate the contribution that mental health service users/survivors have made and are making to history. Meets regularly in London.
http://studymore.org.uk/forum.htm
Survivor Researcher Network
The Survivor Researcher Network (SRN) is a network set up to support people with lived experience of mental distress with an interest in research. It is hosted by NSUN.
http://www.nsun.org.uk/about-us/our-work/survivor-researcher-network/
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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
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…
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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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