Everyone's Blog Posts - Mental Health in Higher Education Hub2024-03-19T10:33:30Zhttps://mhhehub.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?xn_auth=noQMU launches the world's first Masters in Mad Studiestag:mhhehub.ning.com,2020-12-01:6392542:BlogPost:669682020-12-01T10:50:06.000ZJill Andersonhttps://mhhehub.ning.com/profile/0dta9vdfxayg5
<p><span>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 </span><span>has been hailed by a leading international Mad Studies academic as the most exciting piece of curriculum development in the last 20 years!</span></p>
<p><span>Mad Studies is a recognised academic discipline that explores the knowledge and actions that have grown…</span></p>
<p><span>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 </span><span>has been hailed by a leading international Mad Studies academic as the most exciting piece of curriculum development in the last 20 years!</span></p>
<p><span>Mad Studies is a recognised academic discipline that explores the knowledge and actions that have grown from the global mad movement. </span><span>It cuts across the fields of social sciences, healthcare and humanities and expresses a radical new voice in academia about madness.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.qmu.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/20203011-qmu-launches-the-world-s-first-master-s-in-mad-studies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Find out more</a></p>Unlearning through Mad Studies: disruptive pedagogical praxistag:mhhehub.ning.com,2020-10-26:6392542:BlogPost:528582020-10-26T18:00:00.000ZJill Andersonhttps://mhhehub.ning.com/profile/0dta9vdfxayg5
<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><span>This paper offers Mad…</span></p>
<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><span>This paper offers Mad Studies as an alternative entry point for engaging with madness in higher education, arguing that centring madness in pedagogical praxis has the potential to interrupt hegemonic ways of knowing, being, and learning. The paper illustrates how this disruption is facilitated by examining particular aspects of pedagogical praxis mobilized in Mad Studies, including building curriculum alongside mad community, centring madness in course design and student assessment, and the practice of mad positivity.</span></p>
<p><span>Ultimately, this approach provides a metacurriculum of unlearning, challenging students to consider how their engagement with madness in the classroom, and beyond, has the potential to disrupt sanist systems of oppression and the normalcy they reconstitute.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/23550/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read this paper</a></p>Stepchange: mentally healthy universitiestag:mhhehub.ning.com,2020-10-16:6392542:BlogPost:490662020-10-16T14:48:53.000ZJill Andersonhttps://mhhehub.ning.com/profile/0dta9vdfxayg5
<p>Earlier this year, UUK published a refreshed version of its strategic framework,<span> </span><a href="https://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/stepchange-mhu" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Stepchange: mentally healthy universities</a>, calling on universities to prioritise the mental health of their students and staff by taking a whole university approach to mental health.</p>
<p>The Stepchange approach and shared set of principles inform the<span> …</span></p>
<p>Earlier this year, UUK published a refreshed version of its strategic framework,<span> </span><a href="https://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/stepchange-mhu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stepchange: mentally healthy universities</a>, calling on universities to prioritise the mental health of their students and staff by taking a whole university approach to mental health.</p>
<p>The Stepchange approach and shared set of principles inform the<span> </span><a href="https://www.studentminds.org.uk/charter.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Student Minds University Mental Health Charter</a><span> </span>which will provide a voluntary accreditation scheme for universities. UUK has also published an open access<span> </span><a href="https://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/stepchange-mhu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">self-assessment tool</a><span> </span>developed with the Child Outcomes Research Consortium.</p>
<p>Recommended actions within the new framework include:</p>
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<li><p>demonstrating visible leadership and senior ownership of mental health as a priority to promote open conversations and sustain change</p>
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<li><p>working closely with students and staff to develop mental health strategies and services</p>
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<li><p>ensuring accessible and appropriately resourced support for mental health and wellbeing for all students and all staff</p>
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<li><p>focusing on staff mental health; inclusion of mental health in staff performance discussions and provision of appropriate training for line managers and supervisors</p>
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<li><p>clarification of the key role of academic staff in supporting the mental health of students through appropriate training and development</p>
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<li><p>commitment to assessments and course work that stretch and test learning without imposing unnecessary stress</p>
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</ul>The Autumn issue of Asylum magazine is out nowtag:mhhehub.ning.com,2020-10-16:6392542:BlogPost:490632020-10-16T14:44:44.000ZJill Andersonhttps://mhhehub.ning.com/profile/0dta9vdfxayg5
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8041843052?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" height="395" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8041843052?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="280"></img></a> Three sample articles are available on the Asylum website: </p>
<p><a href="https://asylummagazine.org/?p=7132&preview=true">Beyond the Pale –<span> </span><em>Raza Griffiths </em></a></p>
<p><a href="https://asylummagazine.org/?p=7145&preview=true">An Illustrated Mind –<span> </span><em>Kathryn Watson …</em></a></p>
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<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8041843052?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8041843052?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-right" width="280" height="395"/></a>Three sample articles are available on the Asylum website: </p>
<p><a href="https://asylummagazine.org/?p=7132&preview=true">Beyond the Pale –<span> </span><em>Raza Griffiths </em></a></p>
<p><a href="https://asylummagazine.org/?p=7145&preview=true">An Illustrated Mind –<span> </span><em>Kathryn Watson </em></a></p>
<p><a href="https://asylummagazine.org/?p=7209&preview=true">“Someone for Everyone?” –<span> </span><em>Ashley Formby</em></a></p>
<p>See <a href="https://asylummagazine.org/2020/09/asylum-27-3-autumn-2020/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> for full contents list and subscription link.</p>Think Ahead gets funding to boost its intake.tag:mhhehub.ning.com,2020-10-16:6392542:BlogPost:489682020-10-16T14:41:58.000ZJill Andersonhttps://mhhehub.ning.com/profile/0dta9vdfxayg5
<p>Fast-track mental health social work provider<span> </span><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-recruitment-drive-to-help-10-000-people-with-serious-mental-illness" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Think Ahead will expand its intake by 60% from next year following a government funding boost of at least £18m.</a></p>
<p>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…</p>
<p>Fast-track mental health social work provider<span> </span><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-recruitment-drive-to-help-10-000-people-with-serious-mental-illness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Think Ahead will expand its intake by 60% from next year following a government funding boost of at least £18m.</a></p>
<p>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 an option to extend the contract for a further year, which would take total funding to £27m. To date, just over 500 graduates have been recruited to train on Think Ahead since it started in 2016.</p>
<p>Reblogged from Community Care</p>
<p><a href="https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2020/09/30/fast-track-mental-health-social-work-course-gets-18m-boost-increase-intake-60/">https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2020/09/30/fast-track-mental-health-social-work-course-gets-18m-boost-increase-intake-60/</a></p>Transforming Mental Health Social Work videostag:mhhehub.ning.com,2020-10-16:6392542:BlogPost:492032020-10-16T14:39:03.000ZJill Andersonhttps://mhhehub.ning.com/profile/0dta9vdfxayg5
<p>Health Education England has commissioned 11 videos centered on real-life experience of specialists in the social work field.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbCQAq28Q8g&list=PLrVQaAxyJE3fn52TDaw3hXueDiWWXSHdP">See the video playlist</a>.</p>
<p>Health Education England has commissioned 11 videos centered on real-life experience of specialists in the social work field.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbCQAq28Q8g&list=PLrVQaAxyJE3fn52TDaw3hXueDiWWXSHdP">See the video playlist</a>.</p>Transforming mental health social work - conference reporttag:mhhehub.ning.com,2020-10-16:6392542:BlogPost:490612020-10-16T14:37:18.000ZJill Andersonhttps://mhhehub.ning.com/profile/0dta9vdfxayg5
<p>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. </p>
<p><a href="https://www.hee.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Transforming%20MHSW%20Conference%20Report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Download the conference report.</a></p>
<p>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. </p>
<p><a href="https://www.hee.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Transforming%20MHSW%20Conference%20Report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Download the conference report.</a></p>Leadership in mental health social work - web pagestag:mhhehub.ning.com,2020-10-16:6392542:BlogPost:492012020-10-16T14:33:10.000ZJill Andersonhttps://mhhehub.ning.com/profile/0dta9vdfxayg5
<p><span>A section of the Skills for Care website has been developed for mental health social workers and AMHPs</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/Learning-development/social-work/Mental-health-social-work/Mental-health-social-work-leadership.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">View the web pages here.</a></p>
<p><span>A section of the Skills for Care website has been developed for mental health social workers and AMHPs</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/Learning-development/social-work/Mental-health-social-work/Mental-health-social-work-leadership.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">View the web pages here.</a></p>Social work education and training in mental health, addictions and suicide: a scoping review protocoltag:mhhehub.ning.com,2020-10-16:6392542:BlogPost:491202020-10-16T14:29:32.000ZJill Andersonhttps://mhhehub.ning.com/profile/0dta9vdfxayg5
<p><span>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…</span></p>
<p><span>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 suicide.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/6/e024659" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read it here</a></p>Mental health nurse education: perceptions, access and the pandemictag:mhhehub.ning.com,2020-10-16:6392542:BlogPost:491172020-10-16T14:25:52.000ZJill Andersonhttps://mhhehub.ning.com/profile/0dta9vdfxayg5
<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><span>Co-author Claudia Leone picks out some <a href="https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/mental-health-nurse-education-perceptions-access-and-the-pandemic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">key findings</a>.</span></p>
<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><span>Co-author Claudia Leone picks out some <a href="https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/mental-health-nurse-education-perceptions-access-and-the-pandemic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">key findings</a>.</span></p>Laying foundations: Attitudes and access to mental health nurse educationtag:mhhehub.ning.com,2020-10-16:6392542:BlogPost:490572020-10-16T14:00:00.000ZJill Andersonhttps://mhhehub.ning.com/profile/0dta9vdfxayg5
<h1 class="c-page-header__title ts-heading-1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Laying foundations: Attitudes and access to mental health nurse education</span></h1>
<p><span><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8041802676?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" height="311" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8041802676?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="216"></img></a> Mental health nursing is a vital and varied profession, accounting for over a third of the mental health workforce in England. Yet the numbers choosing to study to join the profession are…</span></p>
<h1 class="c-page-header__title ts-heading-1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Laying foundations: Attitudes and access to mental health nurse education</span></h1>
<p><span><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8041802676?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8041802676?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-right" width="216" height="311"/></a>Mental health nursing is a vital and varied profession, accounting for over a third of the mental health workforce in England. Yet the numbers choosing to study to join the profession are unable to meet sharply rising demand. This major new report, commissioned by NHS Employers and the Mental Health Network, looks at ways more people might be attracted to apply to study mental health nursing – and reasons why numbers are currently limited.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/research/laying-foundations-attitudes-and-access-to-mental-health-nurse-education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Download here.</a></p>
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<p>I have compiled a list, with abstracts, of recent articles on this topic. </p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3747045640?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Download here</a></p>
<p>I have compiled a list, with abstracts, of recent articles on this topic. </p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3747045640?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Download here</a></p>Creating Worlds Worth Living In - call for paperstag:mhhehub.ning.com,2019-11-20:6392542:BlogPost:401012019-11-20T13:39:54.000ZJill Andersonhttps://mhhehub.ning.com/profile/0dta9vdfxayg5
<p>Call for papers for the fourth conference of the Critical Suicide Studies Conference, to be held in Vancouver, 12-13 June 2020.</p>
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<p>Deadline is 3 January 2020.</p>
<p><a href="https://asylummagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/EJsFm4bW4AEMxlW.pdf">FURTHER…</a></p>
<p>Call for papers for the fourth conference of the Critical Suicide Studies Conference, to be held in Vancouver, 12-13 June 2020.</p>
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<p>Deadline is 3 January 2020.</p>
<p><a href="https://asylummagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/EJsFm4bW4AEMxlW.pdf">FURTHER DETAILS.</a></p>Critical Voices Network Ireland – Presentationstag:mhhehub.ning.com,2019-11-20:6392542:BlogPost:399012019-11-20T13:38:50.000ZJill Andersonhttps://mhhehub.ning.com/profile/0dta9vdfxayg5
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<p>Trigger, the mental wellbeing publisher, have produced a student wellbeing series. See link for further details and please post here if you have any views on these books to share with others.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.triggerpublishing.com/product-tag/sws/">Find out more. </a></p>
<p>Trigger, the mental wellbeing publisher, have produced a student wellbeing series. See link for further details and please post here if you have any views on these books to share with others.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.triggerpublishing.com/product-tag/sws/">Find out more. </a></p>Mental Health: are all students being properly supported?tag:mhhehub.ning.com,2019-11-05:6392542:BlogPost:396032019-11-05T12:30:00.000ZJill Andersonhttps://mhhehub.ning.com/profile/0dta9vdfxayg5
<p><span>New Office for Students publication.</span></p>
<p><span>'More students than ever are reporting mental health conditions. This brief asks what approaches are being taken across the higher education sector to support them, and what more can be done. Using data available for the first time from the OfS’s access and participation dataset, it explores the outcomes and needs of students with declared mental health conditions. We consider whether universities and colleges are doing enough…</span></p>
<p><span>New Office for Students publication.</span></p>
<p><span>'More students than ever are reporting mental health conditions. This brief asks what approaches are being taken across the higher education sector to support them, and what more can be done. Using data available for the first time from the OfS’s access and participation dataset, it explores the outcomes and needs of students with declared mental health conditions. We consider whether universities and colleges are doing enough for students with different identities who have such conditions'.</span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/publications/mental-health-are-all-students-being-properly-supported/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Download here</a>. </span></p>MadLove take overtag:mhhehub.ning.com,2019-11-05:6392542:BlogPost:395032019-11-05T12:30:00.000ZJill Andersonhttps://mhhehub.ning.com/profile/0dta9vdfxayg5
<p>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…</p>
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<p><a href="https://asylummagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/HOG-MADLOVE_LOW-res_3.jpg" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="https://asylummagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/HOG-MADLOVE_LOW-res_3-300x200.jpg?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="300"></img></a> For the month of November 2019 James, the vacuum cleaner, is combining his own utopian mental health design project,<span> …</span></p>
<p>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…</p>
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<p><a href="https://asylummagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/HOG-MADLOVE_LOW-res_3.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://asylummagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/HOG-MADLOVE_LOW-res_3-300x200.jpg?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="300" class="align-right"/></a>For the month of November 2019 James, the vacuum cleaner, is combining his own utopian mental health design project,<span> </span><a class="" href="http://www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/madlove-a-designer-asylum/">Madlove</a> with local St Helens arts organisation <a href="http://www.heartofglass.org.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Heart of Glass</a>’ annual festival, Take Over. They are creating a Madlove Take Over!</p>
<p>The vacuum cleaner has co-curated a programme of amazing local, national and international artists to work with local people who are struggling with their mental health.</p>
<p>They are building a Madlove Take Over space in the<span> </span><a class="" href="https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/st-helens-old-argos-store-16934919.amp?__twitter_impression=true">old Argos store</a>, creating a colourful, exciting and welcoming space for tea, chats and moments to relax as well as events, performances and exhibitions.</p>
<p><a href="http://thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/madlove-take-over/">FIND OUT MORE</a></p>Student mental health and wellbeing in higher education: a practical guidetag:mhhehub.ning.com,2019-11-05:6392542:BlogPost:395012019-11-05T12:00:00.000ZJill Andersonhttps://mhhehub.ning.com/profile/0dta9vdfxayg5
<p><span><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3698362060?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3698362060?profile=RESIZE_710x"></img></a> Good mental health is essential for students to manage the challenges that university life presents. This book offers pragmatic guidance to support academic and student services staff in engaging with this critical issue, both in terms of being proactive within their role to promote a positive approach to wellbeing, and understanding how to care…</span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3698362060?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3698362060?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-right"/></a>Good mental health is essential for students to manage the challenges that university life presents. This book offers pragmatic guidance to support academic and student services staff in engaging with this critical issue, both in terms of being proactive within their role to promote a positive approach to wellbeing, and understanding how to care appropriately for students who may not be flourishing in the university environment. </span></p>
<p><a href="http://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/student-mental-health-and-wellbeing-in-higher-education/book257572" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Further details</a></p>'What can non-clinical universal approaches to student mental health achieve?': Funding calltag:mhhehub.ning.com,2019-10-21:6392542:BlogPost:391332019-10-21T12:53:56.000ZJill Andersonhttps://mhhehub.ning.com/profile/0dta9vdfxayg5
<p><span>SMaRteN are pleased to invite proposals for small research projects to investigate non-clinical and universal approaches to improving student mental health.</span><br></br><br></br><span>A whole university approach should consider how all aspects of university life impact upon student mental health. In considering non-clinical and universal interventions we have the opportunity to look up-stream and investigate how the context within which students’ study may be adapted to reduce the risk of…</span></p>
<p><span>SMaRteN are pleased to invite proposals for small research projects to investigate non-clinical and universal approaches to improving student mental health.</span><br/><br/><span>A whole university approach should consider how all aspects of university life impact upon student mental health. In considering non-clinical and universal interventions we have the opportunity to look up-stream and investigate how the context within which students’ study may be adapted to reduce the risk of developing mental health problems, as well as better supporting students with mental health problems.</span><br/><br/><span>To give an example, learning, pedagogy, course content and assessment are the cornerstones of Higher Education, yet there is limited understanding of how these activities influence mental health. For example, we may ask whether the increasingly high stakes pursuit of grades hinders the creative process central to many Higher Education subjects that can foster creative absorption and ‘flow’ and in turn have a positive effect on wellbeing.</span><br/><span>Looking beyond education, we may consider the social environment within which students’ study. The university community might be expected to foster social connection, yet students frequently report being lonely. Research might ask how loneliness within the student population can be reduced and whether this would improve mental health. Research has shown that the size of a university campus influences the diversity of student’s social groups; does this in turn influence student mental health and wellbeing?</span><br/><br/><span>Research might ask how the built environment influences students. The recent years have seen substantive building development projects across university campuses. Has this investment into built environment been positive for student mental health? Can changes to the space provided for students or the layout of teaching rooms influence mental wellbeing?</span><br/><span></span><br/><span>Research must assess the balance between risk and benefit, without assuming that any intervention is a “good thing” in and of itself.</span><br/><br/><strong>APPLYING</strong><br/><br/><span>We will fund </span><strong>pilot</strong><span> or </span><strong>preliminary work</strong><span> demonstrating a clear plan for how this work will lead to a larger, subsequent grant applications. We are looking to fund work that establishes </span><strong>interdisciplinary</strong><span> collaborations to support subsequent projects and / or tests out evaluation frameworks to support assessment of impact of non-clinical approaches. We particularly invite applications from researchers working in disciplines </span><strong>outside</strong><span> of psychology and psychiatry.</span><br/><br/><span>The total funding available through this call is £70,000. We expect to award funding for small projects (up to £10,000), for up to 12 months duration.</span><br/><br/><strong>Please download the application pack and application form <a href="https://www.smarten.org.uk/funding.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HERE</a>, which are to be completed and emailed to <a href="mailto:laura.beswick@kcl.ac.uk">laura.beswick@kcl.ac.uk</a>.</strong></p>Asylum back catalogue goes onlinetag:mhhehub.ning.com,2019-10-21:6392542:BlogPost:391312019-10-21T12:49:00.000ZJill Andersonhttps://mhhehub.ning.com/profile/0dta9vdfxayg5
<p>Back issues of Asylum magazine, from 2010-2018 are now<span> </span><a href="https://asylummagazine.org/category/back-issues-archive/"><strong>freely</strong> </a><strong>available on the Asylum website as downloadable pdfs</strong>. A great resource for use in teaching.</p>
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<a class="inset-border fb" href="https://asylummagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/back-issues.jpg"><img alt="" class=" size-medium wp-image-6809" height="267" src="https://asylummagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/back-issues-300x267.jpg" width="300"></img></a><br />
<p>More recent issues will go up after 12 months has elapsed…</p>
<p>Back issues of Asylum magazine, from 2010-2018 are now<span> </span><a href="https://asylummagazine.org/category/back-issues-archive/"><strong>freely</strong> </a><strong>available on the Asylum website as downloadable pdfs</strong>. A great resource for use in teaching.</p>
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<a class="inset-border fb" href="https://asylummagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/back-issues.jpg"><img class=" size-medium wp-image-6809" src="https://asylummagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/back-issues-300x267.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="267"/></a><br />
<p>More recent issues will go up after 12 months has elapsed from the date of publication; and there are plans to scan and upload the older issues too.</p>
<p>This resource – which can be used in multiple ways – includes, amongst much else:</p>
<ul>
<li>A special issue on the<span> </span><a href="https://asylummagazine.org/2010/03/asylum-magazine-volume-17-no-1-spring-2010/">Paranoia Network</a></li>
<li><a href="https://asylummagazine.org/2010/06/asylum-magazine-volume-17-no-2-summer-2010/">‘What everyone should know about psychiatric medication</a>‘</li>
<li><a href="https://asylummagazine.org/2011/01/asylum-magazine-volume-18-no-1-spring-2011/">The Mad Pride edition </a></li>
<li>An issue guest edited by the<span> </span><a href="https://asylummagazine.org/2011/08/asylum-magazine-volume-18-no-3-autumn-2011/">Spiritual Crisis Network </a></li>
<li>An issue guest edited by the Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy on<span> </span><a href="https://asylummagazine.org/2014/02/asylum-magazine-volume-21-no-1-spring-2014/">Creative Responses to Difficult Times </a></li>
<li>A special issue on<span> </span><a href="https://asylummagazine.org/2013/05/asylum-magazine-volume-20-no-2-summer-2013/">Self Harm </a></li>
<li>A four part series on<a href="https://asylummagazine.org/2015/02/asylum-magazine-volume-22-no-1-spring-2015/"><span> </span>Comics and Mental health </a></li>
<li>An issue with a focus on<a href="https://asylummagazine.org/2014/08/asylum-magazine-volume-21-no-3-autumn-2014/"><span> </span>ECT </a></li>
<li>Three issues with a focus on Mad Studies<ul>
<li><a href="https://asylummagazine.org/2016/12/asylum-magazine-volume-23-no-4-winter-2016/">Asylum 23.4</a></li>
<li><a href="https://asylummagazine.org/2017/01/asylum-magazine-volume-24-no-1-spring-2017/">Asylum 24.1</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>including the Canadian Mad Studies issue</p>
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<li><ul>
<li><a href="https://asylummagazine.org/2013/11/asylum-magazine-volume-20-no-4-autumn-2013/">Asylum 20.4</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Two issues marking Asylum’s thirtieth birthday – and with a review of what has changed over the time of its production:<ul>
<li><a href="https://asylummagazine.org/2016/02/asylum-magazine-volume-23-no-1-spring-2016/">Asylum 23.1</a></li>
<li><a href="https://asylummagazine.org/2016/05/asylum-magazine-volume-23-no-2-summer-2016/">Asylum 23.2</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<hr/><p>Please explore, make use of these and pass the word around.</p>
<p>PLEASE also<span> </span><a href="https://asylummagazine.org/subscribe/">subscribe</a><span> </span>and/or<span> </span><a href="https://asylummagazine.org/contribute/">contribute</a><span> </span>to Asylum magazine, and help to safeguard its future.</p>My new websitetag:mhhehub.ning.com,2019-08-27:6392542:BlogPost:385022019-08-27T19:40:13.000ZDr Sue Wheatcrofthttps://mhhehub.ning.com/profile/DrSueWheatcroft
<p><a href="http://www.suewheatcroft.org">www.suewheatcroft.org</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.suewheatcroft.org">www.suewheatcroft.org</a></p>Personality disorder: prison vs communitytag:mhhehub.ning.com,2019-08-25:6392542:BlogPost:384022019-08-25T16:30:00.000ZDr Sue Wheatcrofthttps://mhhehub.ning.com/profile/DrSueWheatcroft
<p>This is a blog I wrote for <a href="http://www.clinks.org" rel="noopener" target="_blank">CLINKS</a> in May 2019. The exact link appears at the bottom of this blog.</p>
<p><strong>Personality disorder: prison vs community</strong></p>
<p>It is a sad and worrying fact that, as it stands, the best place in Derbyshire to get help for someone with a personality disorder (PD) is in HMP & YOI Foston Hall. Since 2013, the prison’s CAMEO unit has provided intervention and treatment pathways for…</p>
<p>This is a blog I wrote for <a href="http://www.clinks.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CLINKS</a> in May 2019. The exact link appears at the bottom of this blog.</p>
<p><strong>Personality disorder: prison vs community</strong></p>
<p>It is a sad and worrying fact that, as it stands, the best place in Derbyshire to get help for someone with a personality disorder (PD) is in HMP & YOI Foston Hall. Since 2013, the prison’s CAMEO unit has provided intervention and treatment pathways for women in prison, with all types of PD, in a therapeutic environment (Coping with complex needs, Aiming for a better understanding of self through Motivation to change, Engaging with others, and Optimism for the future). However, strict criteria mean that only those who have at least two years left on their sentence (meaning that they must have received a sentence of four years or more) can be admitted to the unit. For others, with a less serious offence, treatment must come from the over-stretched In-Reach team, who deal with the rest of the prison population. In the community, programmes exist in Approved Premises. For those who have not offended, however, specialised help for people with a PD is virtually non-existent.</p>
<p><br/> Prison (specialist services)<br/> The CAMEO service is part of the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway, which is co-commissioned and managed by NHS England and Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service in response to the knowledge that approximately two-thirds of prisoners meet the criteria for at least one type of personality disorder. As well as initiatives such as the CAMEO unit, various courses have been established around the secure estate to help people in prison, including those with a PD, to interact with others in a safe and productive way. This includes the various hostels in the community, operating as Approved Premises. The Pathway Press, the newsletter of the OPD programme, offers more information.</p>
<p><br/> Prison (without specialist support)<br/> There is a serious lack of training for prison staff in the symptoms of PD. Too often, those with a personality disorder are seen as attention-seekers and/or trouble-makers. It is very often the case that an individual with a PD spends a longer time than normal locked in their cell and, as was my experience, this could be in segregation, alone for up to twenty-three hours a day. This exacerbates the condition, leading to even more time in segregation. For those lucky enough to be referred to In-Reach, there is inevitably a long waiting list and even then, treatments for personality disorders, outside the specific units, are difficult to source.</p>
<p><br/> With a lack of resources, members of In-Reach face an uphill struggle to cope with the number of prisoners with a PD. In addition, making a diagnosis whilst in custody can be unreliable because the individual is away from their usual environment. People very often act differently in prison; they may be putting on a brave face or become anti-social. With regard to triggers, those in the community will merely be replaced with new or similar ones in prison. For example, a common symptom of Borderline Personality Disorder is the fear of sudden endings. This can be relationships, such as with a therapist, or situations. In prison, relocating an individual into another cell without prior knowledge can be immensely traumatic.</p>
<p><br/> In-Reach may not be able to offer a tailor-made service and the individual may be left despondent, angry and potentially dangerous. However, being in a secure environment, they are more likely to see a member of the same team than if in the community.</p>
<p><br/> Arguably, one of the most effective systems in prison is the Assessment, Care in Custody, and Treatment (ACCT) book. Once an individual is seen as having a mental health condition which could lead to self-harm or suicide attempts, they are supported with the ACCT book, which offers on-going monitoring during and after any treatment. Significantly, the book will not be closed until a team of healthcare professionals, prison officers and the individuals themselves agree that it should.</p>
<p><br/> The Derbyshire community<br/> As an expert by experience (I have Borderline Personality Disorder and have spent 18 months in prison) and the founder of the Derbyshire Borderline Personality Disorder Support Group, I was asked by my local NHS Clinical Commissioning Group to set up a focus group to inform and advise on the soon-to-be-established Derbyshire Personality Disorder Pathway. The pathway will be a long time in the making, and we have to be patient, but we believe it will be worth the wait because we must get it right. With one-in-ten people with Borderline Personality Disorder ending their own lives, and many more regularly self-harming and/or spending time in secure estates, lives are at stake. People in Derbyshire, and probably in other counties, have been badly let down by health services in the past. This is largely due to a lack of understanding of the disorders on the part of health and social care professionals, and this is why we need a proper community pathway.</p>
<p><br/> It is not realistic to expect a service such as the CAMEO unit to be available to everyone with a PD in the community. However, at the moment, there are many out there who are subject to a poor, or even non-existent, service. PDs continue to be misunderstood and highly stigmatised. Consequently, people are more at risk of offending, and those in prison are more at risk of re-offending once released. The proposed Derbyshire Personality Disorder Pathway model addresses the issue of education and training, with the recommendation that it should include people with lived experience. It also suggests methods of assessment, referral and re-referral, treatment, and follow-up, and warns against excluding those with complex needs, who may be thought to be a potential danger to themselves or others. It focuses on bringing awareness to all professionals who are likely to come into contact with someone with a PD, with a particular emphasis on eliminating offensive terminology. Finally, it highlights the importance of a person-centred care/treatment plan and the inclusion of long-term follow-up. For more details on the proposed pathway, please email Sue at derbyshireborderlinepd@gmail.com</p>
<p><br/> And finally<br/> It is, perhaps, ironic that although diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder in the community, the only help I received was in prison. It was refused in the community on the basis that my symptoms were too complex. However, receiving a sentence under four years meant that I could not access the services of a PD unit and I, like many others, was forced to rely on the over-stretched In-Reach team.</p>
<p><br/> Nevertheless, we still felt that we were better off than those in the community, especially in Derbyshire. For this to change, it is vital that a community pathway is established.</p>
<p><br/> I would like to finish this blog with a few questions for you to consider:</p>
<p><br/> How much do you know about personality disorders?<br/> Do you know anyone with a personality disorder?<br/> What services does your county offer for people with a personality disorder?<br/> Does this blog leave you with a need to discover more about personality disorders?</p>
<p><a href="https://www.clinks.org/community/blog-posts/personality-disorder-prison-vs-community" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.clinks.org/community/blog-posts/personality-disorder-prison-vs-community</a></p>
<p></p>International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health.tag:mhhehub.ning.com,2019-07-23:6392542:BlogPost:383212019-07-23T10:16:04.000ZJill Andersonhttps://mhhehub.ning.com/profile/0dta9vdfxayg5
<p><span>Follow</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/icswyork2019?src=hash" class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" dir="ltr"><s>#</s><b>icswyork2019</b></a> <span>over the next three days for tweets from the 9th International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health.</span></p>
<p><span>Follow</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/icswyork2019?src=hash" class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" dir="ltr"><s>#</s><b>icswyork2019</b></a> <span>over the next three days for tweets from the 9th International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health.</span></p>Children and Young People's mental health - links and resourcestag:mhhehub.ning.com,2019-07-23:6392542:BlogPost:379152019-07-23T09:52:11.000ZJill Andersonhttps://mhhehub.ning.com/profile/0dta9vdfxayg5
<p>I was just asked - by someone preparing a session for young people in a secondary school - for some links to resources on children and young people's mental health. They were particularly interested in alternative/critical perspectives. My initial response is below, in case of use to others (though some links are Lancaster related). Please add ideas and suggestions:</p>
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<div>It might be worth having a look at BoingBoing's academic resilience approach - it's well explained…</div>
<p>I was just asked - by someone preparing a session for young people in a secondary school - for some links to resources on children and young people's mental health. They were particularly interested in alternative/critical perspectives. My initial response is below, in case of use to others (though some links are Lancaster related). Please add ideas and suggestions:</p>
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<div>It might be worth having a look at BoingBoing's academic resilience approach - it's well explained here.: </div>
<div><a href="https://www.boingboing.org.uk/academic-resilience-approach/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.boingboing.org.uk/academic-resilience-approach/</a> </div>
<div><div>There are also resources which foreground the voices of children and young people eg</div>
<div><a href="https://www.boingboing.org.uk/mental-health-resilient-therapy-toolkit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.boingboing.org.uk/mental-health-resilient-therapy-toolkit/</a> </div>
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<div>Below are some links to articles that frame the debates around young people's mental health in different ways than they are often explored in the mainstream media:</div>
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<li>Mark Brown is arguing here for the need for more and better research. He summarises well some of the pressures facing children and young people today. </li>
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<a href="https://medium.com/@MarkOneinFour/just-what-is-the-point-of-you-research-and-young-people-s-mental-health-ec497ac5a7b8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://medium.com/@MarkOneinFour/just-what-is-the-point-of-you-research-and-young-people-s-mental-health-ec497ac5a7b8</a> <br/><ul>
<li>This open letter to Theresa May is worth a read</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/discursive/transforming-childrens-mental-health-an-open-letter-to-theresa-may/#comment-13241" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/discursive/transforming-childrens-mental-health-an-open-letter-to-theresa-may/#comment-13241</a> <br/><ul>
<li>This article underlines the point about social causation. . . </li>
</ul>
<a href="https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/news/more-million-schoolchildren-worry-about-family-not-having-enough-money" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/news/more-million-schoolchildren-worry-about-family-not-having-enough-money</a> <br/><ul>
<li>and this is another critique </li>
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<a href="https://www.mentalhealthtoday.co.uk/blog/teach-me-well/we-can-aim-higher-than-off-the-shelf-mental-health-lessons" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.mentalhealthtoday.co.uk/blog/teach-me-well/we-can-aim-higher-than-off-the-shelf-mental-health-lessons</a> </div>
<div dir="ltr"><div>There are emergent examples of innovative projects targeting children and young people who are in touch with secondary services eg this online hearing voices group:</div>
<div><a href="https://www.madinamerica.com/2017/12/launch-online-forum-young-people-hear-voices/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.madinamerica.com/2017/12/launch-online-forum-young-people-hear-voices/</a> </div>
<div>and this local project at MoreMusic in Morecambe (which has now set up a regular group in conjunction with CAMHS)</div>
<div><a href="https://network.youthmusic.org.uk/music-young-people-and-mental-health-part-4-celebrating-resilience" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://network.youthmusic.org.uk/music-young-people-and-mental-health-part-4-celebrating-resilience</a> </div>
<div><a href="https://twitter.com/communikatt/status/1133834380500197377/photo/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://twitter.com/communikatt/status/1133834380500197377/photo/1</a> </div>
<div>See also: <a href="https://a-c-e.org.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://a-c-e.org.uk/</a></div>
<div>and Jen Natusch's project might be worth a plug as well. <span> </span><a href="https://escape2make.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://escape2make.org/</a></div>
<div>If you are looking for a short clip to use with students then the Animated Minds films might be worth a look and a couple are about children and young people. They're just 3 minutes long: </div>
<div><a href="https://animatedminds.com/watch-the-films" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://animatedminds.com/watch-the-films</a> </div>
<div>See also: </div>
<div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIlcj35F04I" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIlcj35F04I</a> </div>
</div>Asylum 26.2 is out nowtag:mhhehub.ning.com,2019-06-06:6392542:BlogPost:379062019-06-06T22:08:08.000ZJill Andersonhttps://mhhehub.ning.com/profile/0dta9vdfxayg5
<p>The latest issue of Asylum magazine is out now. See <a href="http://asylummagazine.org/2019/06/asylum-26-2-summer-2019/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HERE </a>for further details and a couple of sample articles.<a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2801830127?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2801830127?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-right"/></a></p>
<p>The latest issue of Asylum magazine is out now. See <a href="http://asylummagazine.org/2019/06/asylum-26-2-summer-2019/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HERE </a>for further details and a couple of sample articles.<a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2801830127?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2801830127?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-right"/></a></p>Think Ahead Programme - Independent evaluationtag:mhhehub.ning.com,2019-05-01:6392542:BlogPost:381032019-05-01T06:52:32.000ZJill Andersonhttps://mhhehub.ning.com/profile/0dta9vdfxayg5
<p>The Think Ahead social work qualifying programme was launched in 2016, with the aim of providing a new, mental health focused route into the social work profession in partnership with employer organisations. </p>
<p>An independent evaluation has just been published, based on the experience of the programme over its first two years. </p>
<p><a href="https://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/sociology/IndependentEvaluationoftheThinkAheadProgramme_FinalReport.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">READ THE…</a></p>
<p>The Think Ahead social work qualifying programme was launched in 2016, with the aim of providing a new, mental health focused route into the social work profession in partnership with employer organisations. </p>
<p>An independent evaluation has just been published, based on the experience of the programme over its first two years. </p>
<p><a href="https://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/sociology/IndependentEvaluationoftheThinkAheadProgramme_FinalReport.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">READ THE EVALUATION</a></p>Madness and the demand for recognition: A philosophical inquiry into identity and mental health activismtag:mhhehub.ning.com,2019-04-29:6392542:BlogPost:381012019-04-29T15:43:32.000ZJill Andersonhttps://mhhehub.ning.com/profile/0dta9vdfxayg5
<p><span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #58595b; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Tahoma,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.26px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Madness is a complex and contested term.…</span></p>
<p><span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #58595b; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Tahoma,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.26px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Madness is a complex and contested term. Through time and across cultures it has acquired many formulations: for some, madness is synonymous with unreason and violence, for others with creativity and subversion, elsewhere it is associated with spirits and spirituality. Among the different formulations, there is one in particular that has taken hold so deeply and systematically that it has become the default view in many communities around the world: the idea that madness is a disorder of the mind. </span><br style="background-color: transparent; color: #58595b; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Tahoma,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.26px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;"/><br style="background-color: transparent; color: #58595b; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Tahoma,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.26px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;"/><span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #58595b; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Tahoma,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.26px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Contemporary developments in mental health activism pose a radical challenge to psychiatric <a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2225559179?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img width="200" class="align-right" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2225559179?profile=RESIZE_710x"/></a>and societal understandings of madness. Mad Pride and mad-positive activism reject the language of mental 'illness' and 'disorder', reclaim the term 'mad', and reverse its negative connotations. Activists seek cultural change in the way madness is viewed, and demand recognition of madness as grounds for identity. But can madness constitute such grounds? Is it possible to reconcile delusions, passivity phenomena, and the discontinuity of self often seen in mental health conditions with the requirements for identity formation presupposed by the theory of recognition? How should society respond?</span><br style="background-color: transparent; color: #58595b; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Tahoma,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.26px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;"/><br style="background-color: transparent; color: #58595b; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Tahoma,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.26px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;"/><span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #58595b; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Tahoma,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.26px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Guided by these questions, this book is the first comprehensive philosophical examination of the claims and demands of Mad activism. Locating itself in the philosophy of psychiatry, Mad studies, and activist literatures, the book develops a rich theoretical framework for understanding, justifying, and responding to Mad activism's demand for recognition.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/madness-and-the-demand-for-recognition-9780198786863?cc=gb&lang=en&#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Find out more.</a></p>Mad Studies group - Birminghamtag:mhhehub.ning.com,2019-04-18:6392542:BlogPost:377452019-04-18T09:30:00.000ZJill Andersonhttps://mhhehub.ning.com/profile/0dta9vdfxayg5
<p><span>Are you a Lived Experience Practitioner (LXP)? (Mad) Academic? Student? Clinician? Service User? Carer?</span></p>
<p> <span>All welcome!</span><span> </span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2056882349?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" height="269" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2056882349?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="268"></img></a> ‘Mad Studies’ is a field of scholarship, theory, and activism about the lived experiences, history, cultures, and politics about people who may identify as 'Mad', mentally ill,…</span></p>
<p><span>Are you a Lived Experience Practitioner (LXP)? (Mad) Academic? Student? Clinician? Service User? Carer?</span></p>
<p> <span>All welcome!</span><span> </span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2056882349?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2056882349?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-right" width="268" height="269"/></a>‘Mad Studies’ is a field of scholarship, theory, and activism about the lived experiences, history, cultures, and politics about people who may identify as 'Mad', mentally ill, psychiatric survivors, consumers, service users, patients, neurodiverse and disabled.</span></p>
<p><span>Our Birmingham group has a central focus on supporting Lived Experience Practitioners (i.e. peer support workers, service user researchers, service user consultants, etc) in their work through developing knowledge and being with others who work in their field. However, in the true spirit of 'Mad Studies', others who have an interest in this area are welcome to attend and learn. LXP's work alongside many other people, so sharing knowledge with others can help develop mutual understanding and strengthen working relationships.</span></p>
<p><span>The group starts by either volunteers or the facilitator giving a synopsis of the week’s reading so that everyone has a reminder of the content and can take part in conversations if they haven't been able to read the selected material.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.pinkskythinking.com/so/d6McnyIT_#/main" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Find out more</a></p>Engaging with Voices videostag:mhhehub.ning.com,2019-04-12:6392542:BlogPost:378232019-04-12T19:30:00.000ZJill Andersonhttps://mhhehub.ning.com/profile/0dta9vdfxayg5
<p>These 15 videos were created by Elisabeth Svanholmer, Charlie Heriot-Maitland and Rufus May. Filming and editing by<span> </span><a href="http://www.thisismindwick.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">John Richardson and his team </a></p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1923593212?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" height="191" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1923593212?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="342"></img></a> The Engaging with Voices videos are intended as inspiration and support for people interested in compassionate…</p>
<p>These 15 videos were created by Elisabeth Svanholmer, Charlie Heriot-Maitland and Rufus May. Filming and editing by<span> </span><a href="http://www.thisismindwick.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Richardson and his team </a></p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1923593212?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1923593212?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-right" width="342" height="191"/></a>The Engaging with Voices videos are intended as inspiration and support for people interested in compassionate approaches to voices.<br/> If you are hearing voices or having similar experiences and they are causing you distress we would encourage you to seek support from someone you trust.<br/> For more information and support you can have a look at the websites below.</p>
<p>Information about hearing voices and similar experiences:<br/> International website for the hearing voices movement<span> </span><a href="http://www.intervoiceonline.org/about-voices" rel="nofollow">http://www.intervoiceonline.org/about-voices</a><br/> For young people and their families<span> </span><a href="http://www.voicecollective.co.uk/about-voices/" rel="nofollow">http://www.voicecollective.co.uk/about-voices/</a><br/> Ideas about recovery<span> </span><a href="http://www.intervoiceonline.org/support-recovery" rel="nofollow">http://www.intervoiceonline.org/support-recovery</a><br/> Project researching hearing voices<span> </span><a href="https://hearingthevoice.org/frequently-asked-questions/" rel="nofollow">https://hearingthevoice.org/frequently-asked-questions/</a></p>
<p>Support forums and links to peer support groups:<br/> In the UK<span> </span><a href="https://www.hearing-voices.org/hearing-voices-groups/" rel="nofollow">https://www.hearing-voices.org/hearing-voices-groups/</a><br/> In the US<span> </span><a href="http://www.hearingvoicesusa.org/forum/index" rel="nofollow">http://www.hearingvoicesusa.org/forum/index</a><br/> For young people<span> </span><a href="http://forum.voicecollective.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://forum.voicecollective.co.uk/</a><br/> International discussion forum<span> </span><a href="http://www.intervoiceonline.org/support-recovery/online-discussion-forum" rel="nofollow">http://www.intervoiceonline.org/support-recovery/online-discussion-forum</a></p>
<p><a href="https://openmindedonline.com/portfolio/engaging-with-voices-videos/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VIEW THE VIDEOS</a></p>RE:CREATE psychiatrytag:mhhehub.ning.com,2019-04-11:6392542:BlogPost:378212019-04-11T20:23:24.000ZJill Andersonhttps://mhhehub.ning.com/profile/0dta9vdfxayg5
<p>The UK mental healthcare system is deemed by many to be failing its users, and lauded by many more as one of the best in the world. As a community of people who have journeyed through mental ill-health and well-being, we at<span> </span><strong><a href="http://mentalfightclub.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Mental Fight Club</a></strong><span> </span>have contemplated standards of care both abysmal and outstanding. Now, we want to instigate new thinking stemming from our collective…</p>
<p>The UK mental healthcare system is deemed by many to be failing its users, and lauded by many more as one of the best in the world. As a community of people who have journeyed through mental ill-health and well-being, we at<span> </span><strong><a href="http://mentalfightclub.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mental Fight Club</a></strong><span> </span>have contemplated standards of care both abysmal and outstanding. Now, we want to instigate new thinking stemming from our collective experiences. Thinking about how mental health services can be made to be more healing, more human, and more creative for everyone – for those who use the services<span> </span><u>and</u><span> </span>for those who work in them. We call this new endeavour<span> </span><strong>RE:CREATE Psychiatry</strong>.</p>
<p>As a first step, we are carving out safe, creative spaces for both service users and professionals to share their reflections – and listen to others – about the current system’s virtues and frailties. Through podcasts, discussion groups, creative dialogue workshops and public events, through genuine, open-hearted and constructive dialogue, we are piecing together a collective, multi-perspectival understanding of how services can become more human for everyone involved.</p>
<p><a href="https://recreatepsychiatry.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Find out more.</a></p>