January 2013 Blog Posts (51)

Patient, Carer and Public Involvement in HE: 5 free seminars in Leeds

12th February 2013 - 11th June 2013, University of Leeds School of Healthcare

Patient, Carer and Public Involvement in healthcare is a cornerstone of Government policy, influenced initially by the emergence of the broad service user and public engagement movement. It has been supported, encouraged and deemed good practice by the Health related professions and their regulatory bodies (CHRE 2012). More recently Higher Education is also recognising the value of effective…

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Added by Jill Anderson on January 9, 2013 at 17:11 — No Comments

Philosophy of Mind - online course at the University of Oxford

The philosophy of mind is one of the most exciting areas within philosophy. It is concerned with questions about the nature of mind and the relation between our minds and the physical world. This online course provides an introduction to philosophy of mind by introducing participants to the mind-body problem, one of the most intractable problems in philosophy.

Students will be guided through their reading of various classical and contemporary works on the mind-body problem, and…

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Added by Jill Anderson on January 8, 2013 at 20:00 — No Comments

Madness - probing the boundaries: Call for Papers

'This inter-disciplinary research conference seeks to explore issues of madness across historical periods and within cultural, political and social contexts. We are also interested in exploring the place of madness in persons and interpersonal relationships and across a range of critical perspectives. Seeking to encourage innovative inter, multi and post disciplinary dialogues, we warmly welcome papers from all disciplines, professions and vocations which struggle to understand the place of…

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Added by Jill Anderson on January 8, 2013 at 12:30 — No Comments

Medfest 2013 - the power of medicine.

Medfest is a one month film festival, touring the UK in February-March 2013 in 20 universities. It will culminate with a showcase event at the Royal Society of Medicine. This year’s theme, “The Power of Medicine”, aims to provoke animated debate around a number of political, social and artistic issues, which will appeal to a wide audience. The panellists are chosen from a range of backgrounds: doctors, filmmakers, medical ethicists, social scientists…

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Added by Jill Anderson on January 8, 2013 at 9:30 — No Comments

Tulisa - my mum and me: teaching resource

Tulisa - My Mum and me is an hour long documentary film directed by Rowan Deacon featuring the singer songwriter Tulisa Contostavlos, formerly a member of the group N-Dubz but now a solo artist and judge on the ITV entertainment programmeX-Factor. The film, which was made for the BBC in 2010, is an account of Tulisa’s life as a young child and teenager growing up with her mother who has a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder.  Presented and narrated by Tulisa, she meets…

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Added by Jill Anderson on January 8, 2013 at 9:30 — No Comments

Combining Facebook and enquiry-based blended learning to teach social media skills

This story - by Tarsem Singh-Cooner - contains the rationale to a 7-minute film outlining how Facebook and an enquiry-based blended learning design were combined to help students develop professional social media practices.

http://storify.com/Akali65/combining-facebook-and-enquiry-based-blended-learn

Added by Jill Anderson on January 5, 2013 at 19:10 — 2 Comments

DocumentaryStorm

Watch free documentaries online.  May be of use in teaching (includes 'the Doctor who Hears Voices'):

http://documentarystorm.com/

Added by Jill Anderson on January 5, 2013 at 14:16 — No Comments

TED-Ed: a new tool for use in teaching

TED-Ed’s commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED’s mission of spreading great ideas. Within the growing TED-Ed video library, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform. This platform also allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED's, and easily create a customized lesson around the video. Users can distribute…

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Added by Jill Anderson on January 3, 2013 at 15:31 — No Comments

Academic psychiatry and its problems...

Hi, All 

i came across an interesting article by Kleinman in the British Journal of Psychiatry that talks about academic psychiatry research and its need to achieve a rebalancing so as to take account of 'the human faces and the social crucibles of mental illness'. attaching the article here Kleinman_rebalancing%20academic%20psychiatry.pdf

Happy New Year to…

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Added by DINA POURSANIDOU on January 2, 2013 at 17:13 — No Comments

Common Ground

CommonGround is a US web-based application that helps people prepare to meet with psychiatrists and arrive at the best decisions for treatment and recovery.  There are details on the website here: https://www.patdeegan.com/commonground/about

Added by Jill Anderson on January 2, 2013 at 16:00 — No Comments

The Politics of Resilience and Recovery

Thought provoking issue of Studies in Social Justice.  All articles are free to download.

See here.

Added by Jill Anderson on January 1, 2013 at 17:40 — 1 Comment

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QMU launches the world's first Masters in Mad Studies

Posted by Jill Anderson on December 1, 2020 at 11:50 0 Comments

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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Unlearning through Mad Studies: disruptive pedagogical praxis

Posted by Jill Anderson on October 26, 2020 at 19:00 0 Comments

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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Stepchange: mentally healthy universities

Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:48 0 Comments

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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Think Ahead gets funding to boost its intake.

Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:41 0 Comments

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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Transforming Mental Health Social Work videos

Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:39 0 Comments

Health Education England has commissioned 11 videos centered on real-life experience of specialists in the social work field.

See the video playlist.

Transforming mental health social work - conference report

Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:37 0 Comments

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. 

Download the conference report.

Leadership in mental health social work - web pages

Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:33 0 Comments

A section of the Skills for Care website has been developed for mental health social workers and AMHPs

View the web pages here.

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

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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Mental health nurse education: perceptions, access and the pandemic

Posted by Jill Anderson on October 16, 2020 at 15:25 0 Comments

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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