April 2015 Blog Posts (24)

Alternative Education Map

Produced by the Social Science Centre, Lincoln, this is a public map that offers a counter-cartography to mainstream higher education. This counter-cartography is part of a militant/-research project that is attempting to link groups that are thinking critically about higher education provision and are attempting to offer alternative models. This is a living counter-cartography so please feel free to share, add to and amend as necessary; however, you will need to sign in to Google Maps…

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Added by Jill Anderson on April 30, 2015 at 16:07 — No Comments

Enlivened Learning

What 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 environment?

Enlivened Learning is a journey of to discover and explore these very questions – and, to learn from and document the silent revolution that is happening in higher education around the world.  It is not just about how we access and fund universities (which current debates tend to focus on),…

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Added by Jill Anderson on April 29, 2015 at 14:49 — No Comments

Mental Health Policy and Practice - third edition published

'This highly regarded text returns as part of Palgrave's Interagency Working in Health and Social Care series, to offer a clear and considered guide to modern mental health policy and practice. Completely up to date, it highlights key changes and developments for today's students and practitioners and explores the implications for future practice. 



Building on the success of previous editions this third edition provides: 



• An…
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Added by Jill Anderson on April 29, 2015 at 8:30 — No Comments

The Climate Psychology Alliance

The origins of the Climate Psychology Alliance lie in the conference “Facing Climate Change” on 7th March 2009, hosted by Bristol’s University of the West of England’s Centre for Psycho-Social Studies (CPSS).

CPSS mounted or contributed to four further events aimed at bringing psychoanalytic, psycho-social and other psychological perspectives to bear on the issue of human engagement with the twin challenges of climate change and ecological crisis.  Some interesting…

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Added by Jill Anderson on April 27, 2015 at 10:27 — No Comments

Critical Mental Health Nurses Network

Last week, at at conference in Durham, the Critical Mental Health Nurses Network was launched.  See here for further details.

Network members are keen to start compiling some lists – books, articles, websites, authors, organisations. Educators, students and others with an interest in how mental health is taught have a useful contribution to make to this.  If you have any suggestions…

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Added by Jill Anderson on April 25, 2015 at 17:00 — No Comments

Psychiatry under the influence - new book by Robert Whitaker

Psychiatry Under the Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform

Publisher's blurb: Psychiatry Under the Influence investigates how the influence of pharmaceutical money and guild interests has corrupted the behavior of the American Psychiatric Association and academic psychiatry during the past 35 years. The book documents how the psychiatric establishment regularly misled the American public about what was known about the biology of mental…

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Added by Jill Anderson on April 24, 2015 at 9:39 — No Comments

The Education of Radical Democracy: New book

The Education of Radical Democracy explores why radical democracy is so necessary, difficult, and possible and why it is important to understand it as an educative activity . The book draws on critical social theory and critical pedagogy to explain what enables and sustains work for radical democratization, and considers how we can begin such work in neoliberal societies today.

Exploring examples of projects from the nineteenth century to the present day, the book sheds light…

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Added by Jill Anderson on April 23, 2015 at 19:00 — No Comments

BA in psychoanalytic studies at the University of Essex

The Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at Essex is going to run a Bachelor’s degree in psychoanalytic studies from October 2016. This will be a unique and innovative offering and, in the spirit of the Centre, will pay equal attention to Jungian and psychoanalytic approaches.

Find out more.

Added by Jill Anderson on April 23, 2015 at 18:04 — No Comments

Psychology and Mental Health: Beyond Nature and Nurture

Learn how a psychological understanding of our emotions and behaviour gives us new ways to improve mental health and well-being.

This free online course is aimed at anyone who wishes to understand more about psychology, about mental health or who wishes to maintain their own mental health and well-being.…

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Added by Jill Anderson on April 23, 2015 at 17:19 — No Comments

Psychiatry and the Business of Madness

Publisher's blurb: 'Psychiatry and the Business of Madness deconstructs psychiatric discourse and practice, exposes the self-interest at the core of the psychiatric/psychopharmacological enterprise, and demonstrates that psychiatry is epistemologically and ethically irredeemable. Burstow's medical and historical research and in-depth interviews demonstrate that the paradigm is untenable, that psychiatry is pseudo-medicine, that the "treatments" do not "correct" disorders…

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Added by Jill Anderson on April 23, 2015 at 17:17 — No Comments

Inclusive teaching, learning and assessment

Plymouth University resource.  This website is an accessible guide to inclusive learning and teaching to support staff with the continual process of reflection and engagement with what inclusivity means for their subject, school or faculty and their students. 

Visit the website

Added by Jill Anderson on April 23, 2015 at 0:34 — No Comments

Rhizomatic Learning: open course

'The first time I designed a course I got this funny feeling that I didn’t know what was going on. Like somewhere there was a manual to creating a learning experience that I had missed. Like the joke was on me somehow. Who was I to decide what was the ‘correct’ content that someone should ‘know’? How could I decide how to measure the quality of work of people I had never met before? Where was this ‘standard’ that I could honestly and confidently refer to that would make my courses make…

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Added by Jill Anderson on April 19, 2015 at 10:00 — No Comments

Massive Open Online Courses

massive open online course (MOOC) is an  online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web.  See previous post for an example of a MOOC and here for a very useful video on success in…

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Added by Jill Anderson on April 19, 2015 at 10:00 — No Comments

Madness, Distress and the Politics of Disablement

This book explores the challenges of applying disability theory and policy, including the social model of disability, to madness and distress. It brings together leading scholars and activists from Europe, North America, Australia and India, to explore the relationship between madness, distress and disability. Whether mental health problems should be viewed as disabilities is a pressing concern, especially since the inclusion of psychosocial disability in the UN Convention on the…

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Added by Jill Anderson on April 17, 2015 at 10:30 — No Comments

MA in Philosophy and Mental Health - External Examiner sought.

The School of Health at UCLAN is seeking to appoint one External Examiner for:

The MA in Philosophy and Mental Health and its subsidiary Post Graduate Certificate and Post Graduate Diploma. These are taught part time by distance learning and are based on the Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry co-authored by one of the course team.

The programme is philosophically and conceptually based, looking at conceptual issues…

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Added by Jill Anderson on April 16, 2015 at 18:26 — No Comments

Looking after a Mate - Student Minds survey

In this study Student Minds are trying to understand the student experience of supporting a friend or partner with mental health difficulties. This study will help them identify opportunities to support student "supporters" and champion the amazing work they do in providing informal support. 



There is currently no data on the student experience of supporting friends with mental health difficulties and this means that the challenges faced are not recognized or…

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Added by Jill Anderson on April 15, 2015 at 18:49 — No Comments

The Maastricht Interview: Social approaches to voice hearing - a lived experience perspective

The traditional approach to working with voice hearers focusses upon inabilities and deficits, rather than individuals’ inherent ability to understand and cope with their voices and other experiences. This course is grounded on acceptance of lived experiences of voice hearing. Participants will be taught to employ the Maastricht Interview, an assessment tool developed by Dr Sandra Escher and Professor Marius Romme, which provides a structured method…

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Added by Jill Anderson on April 10, 2015 at 22:53 — No Comments

The Body Keeps the Score: new book

The body keeps the score: mind, brain and body in the transformation of trauma. 

What causes people to continually relive what they most want to forget, and what treatments could help restore them to a life with purpose and joy? Here, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk offers a new paradigm for effectively treating traumatic stress. 



Neither talking nor drug therapies have proven entirely satisfactory. With stories of his own work and those of specialists around the…

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Added by Jill Anderson on April 10, 2015 at 21:13 — No Comments

Feeling Bodies: Embodying Psychology - new book by John Cromby

Before we are anything else, we are feeling bodies. In fact, feelings are an important part of every experience we ever have. Feelings are not just emotions, and in practice cannot be separated from the processes of thinking and reasoning they are often assumed to simply interfere with. This book explains what feelings are and describes how they contribute to other psychological phenomena. Although feelings are often thought of as wholly private and personal, this book demonstrates…

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Added by Jill Anderson on April 8, 2015 at 17:43 — No Comments

The Sanctuary Model

The 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 culture. 

The objective of such a change is to more effectively provide a cohesive context within which healing from psychological and social traumatic experience can be addressed.

As an organizational culture intervention, it is designed to facilitate the development of structures,…

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Added by Jill Anderson on April 7, 2015 at 14:00 — No Comments

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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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