mhhehub chat: There will be a chat session on Tuesday 18 June at 18.00 - 19.00 British summer time (17:00 GMT) for anyone who is using their lived experience of mental distress in teaching and learning - or would like to.  Join us if you can.

NB To join, just log in to the hub at the allotted time and scroll down on the homepage to find the chatbox.  Any queries, do just get in touch. 

Based in the US, the Lived Experience Research Network (LERN) promotes service user/survivor leadership and inclusion in behavioral health and disabilities research, advanced clinical practice, and program evaluation to advance inclusion and social justice. LERN supports service user/survivor-identified students, researchers and evaluators, and is inclusive of those in academic, governmental, and community-based research/training settings. LERN advocates for…

Learning and teaching about mental health in social work.  Follow our discussions this week in Lancaster, on twitter: #mhcurr

mhhe is celebrating its ten year anniversary this year.  I've been experimenting with 'storify'.  See my efforts here: Mental Health in Higher Education: a decade of activity.  Please let me know what I have missed out!

1) My recently published book:

http://www.amazon.com/Mad-Science-Psychiatric-Coercion-Diagnosis/dp/1412849764/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1365790626&sr=1-1&keywords=gomory+tomi

And some articles are attached below on  issues that may also be of…

'Viewed over history, mental health symptoms begin to look less like immutable biological facts and more like a kind of language. Someone in need of communicating his or her inchoate psychological pain has a limited vocabulary of symptoms to choose from'.  Article by Ethan Watters. 

Read in full

Using peer support workers to support the recovery of people with mental illness can add significant value to mental health services, sometimes at no extra cost, according to new research published today.

The research, which is published in two separate papers, examines the value of peer support workers in supporting recovery. Peer support workers draw on their own experiences of mental illness and support others using services in their own recovery journeys. The research examines…

The Higher Education Academy (HEA) and Health Education England (HEE) have joined forces to deliver a project which will improve training for the health workforce.

The HEA has partnered with HEE to jointly run a 12-month project to promote Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) within student training as part of HEE's 'Better Training Better Care' programme.

TEL aims to accelerate the adoption of technology to equip students with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to…

Full text of the speech that launched The New Mental Health given by Mark Brown to the Asia Pacific Conference on Mental Health in Perth Western Australia on June 14th 2012.  It outlines the broad outline of The New Mental Health.

'I think one of the shifts that I’m noticing is people with mental health difficulties moving beyond seeing their identity as being defined by their interactions with services. We’re moving beyond seeing ourselves as ‘service users’…

See the Realife Learning website for information about learning resources for frontline health and social care staff. There are also some downloadable guides for managers, available on the free resources page, about how to use the booklets to address common performance issues.  May be of use in teaching on qualifying/postqualifying programmes. …

The Dementia Services Development Centre wishes to recruit an experienced post-doctoral researcher with experience in ageing/arts/health to play a key role coordinating the work of a team of researchers in England and Wales on a new research study titled ‘Dementia and Imagination’. This study is jointly funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council, through the Connected Communities Programme.…