July 2017 Blog Posts (28)

Two books about depression

Ordinarily well: the case for antidepressants

In Ordinarily Well, the celebrated psychiatrist and author Peter D. Kramer examines the growing controversy about the popular medications. A practicing doctor who trained as a psychotherapist and worked with pioneers in psychopharmacology, Kramer combines moving accounts of his patients' dilemmas with an…

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Added by Jill Anderson on July 28, 2017 at 22:06 — No Comments

Reflecting on Threshold Concepts: an introductory tool

Threshold concepts are ideas or ways of looking at things that enable a deep grasp of something in the world; the phrase ‘threshold’ signifies the crossing that a learner is enable to make between superficial knowledge and a deeper and irreversible understanding. The Threshold concepts introductory tool is for anyone wishing to understand and apply a cluster of ideas around threshold concepts and the learning that occurs when students encounter troublesome ideas that transform their…

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Added by Jill Anderson on July 26, 2017 at 21:00 — No Comments

Student living: collaborating to support mental health in university accommodation

'This report was informed by the Student Living project, a pilot project between Student Minds, University Partnership Programme (UPP) and Nottingham Trent University in 2016, funded thanks to the UPP Foundation, as well as a review of existing literature and interviews with a range of sector experts.This report includes:

• Recommendations for accommodation providers and university staff

• Suggested ways of working to promote positive student mental health.

• Discussion…

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Added by Jill Anderson on July 26, 2017 at 8:57 — No Comments

A history of the ward in 10 and a half objects - Lancet essay by Charlotte Walker

The first time I was admitted to a psychiatric unit my preconceptions were challenged. It was not scary, or at least not most of the time. It was, however, boring, something I hadn't really expected, and above all, it was odd. Experiences that staff and more seasoned patients took for granted were to me surprising, even bizarre, catching my attention and making me a participant observer of my own care. Here I have curated several objects representing the closed environment of the ward.…

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Added by Jill Anderson on July 24, 2017 at 18:16 — 1 Comment

Being mindful of mental health - The role of local government in mental health and wellbeing

This Local Government Association report explores how councils influence the mental wellbeing of our communities and how council services, from social care to parks to open spaces to education to housing, help to make up the fabric of mental health support for the people in our communities.

Read the Report

Added by Jill Anderson on July 24, 2017 at 18:11 — No Comments

Creative Health: The arts for health and wellbeing

Report produced by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing Inquiry

Key messages (courtesy of Clive Parkinson's blog)

1. The arts, imagination and creativity can help keep us well, aid our recovery and support longer lives better lived. 

2. Prescribing arts to deliver health saves money.

3. There is great potential for the arts to do more to help meet major challenges facing health and social care:…

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Added by Jill Anderson on July 23, 2017 at 8:21 — No Comments

Green light toolkit - MH, autism and learning disabilities

An NDTi guide to auditing and improving mental health services so that they are effective in supporting people with autism and people with learning disabilities.

The Green Light Toolkit is a set of free to access resources including:

  • A recently updated audit framework and toolkit, and easy read version
  • A database of examples of reasonable adjustments made by services,…
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Added by Jill Anderson on July 23, 2017 at 8:13 — No Comments

Helping students adjust to university life

Interestinbg article in this months Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy Journal on using a strengths based approach with new students to help them adjust to the transition and deal with all the insecurities that it brings. Some quite positive effects and seems to meet their initial needs.

I developed an on line package attempting to "normalise" the doubts new students have, it received some positive reviews but not visited as much as I thought it would…

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Added by steve lyon on July 21, 2017 at 15:10 — 1 Comment

Crazywise

Crazy…or wise? The traditional wisdom of indigenous cultures often contradicts modern views about a mental health crisis. Is it a ‘calling’ to grow or just a ‘broken brain’? The documentary CRAZYWISE explores what can be learned from people around the world who have turned their psychological crisis into a positive transformative experience. …

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Added by Jill Anderson on July 21, 2017 at 14:08 — No Comments

Links between mental health academics and student support services

Are there close links, in your institution, between people involvement in teaching/learning about mental distress on the one hand, and student support services on the other?  

Do you think such connections are important and, if so, why?

I've recently been involved in a number of discussions about this question and would really value any thoughts.  Please use the comments box or contact me.  Many thanks. 

Added by Jill Anderson on July 21, 2017 at 13:00 — 2 Comments

Parental mental health and child welfare: videos

VIEW THE FILMS

Added by Jill Anderson on July 21, 2017 at 12:54 — No Comments

Strengths based social work with adults

In January 2017 the Chief Social Worker for Adults in collaboration with the Social Care Institute for Excellence hosted a roundtable event at SCIE to explore what strengths-based social work with adults, individuals, families and communities really means for practitioners and people using services. 

This report from the workshop extends the call to action around strengths-based social work practice and captures the key points and comments from the group discussions with summaries of…

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Added by Jill Anderson on July 21, 2017 at 12:29 — No Comments

The State of Care in Mental Health Services: 2014-2017

In 2014,the CQC started its programme of comprehensive inspections of specialist mental health services in England. It has now inspected all 54 NHS mental health trusts in England and all 221 independent mental health services.

This report identifies several areas of concern: 

  • The safety of services
  • Persistence of restrictive practices
  • Access and waiting times
  • Poor clinical information services…

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Added by Jill Anderson on July 21, 2017 at 10:21 — No Comments

Well-being and higher education: A Strategy for Change and the Realization of Education's Greater Purposes

The newest release from Bringing Theory to Practice, Well-Being and Higher Education explores the multiple connections of well-being to higher education—and why those connections matter for the individual lives of students and those who teach; for the institution; and for whether or not the unique promise of higher education to a democratic society can be advanced . . . and realized.

The volume provides 35 accessible essays including but not limited to the following topics: a…

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Added by Jill Anderson on July 21, 2017 at 8:21 — No Comments

Discursive of Tunbridge Wells

The Discursive of Tunbridge Wells podcasts - produced by Salomons Centre for Applied Psychology at Canterbury Christchurch University are fascinating and a good teaching/learning resource. 

See recent podcast on …

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Added by Jill Anderson on July 20, 2017 at 8:32 — No Comments

Survivor Researcher Network

'The Survivor Researcher Network (SRN) aims to provide mental health service users and survivors involved and interested in research a forum for networking, sharing information, and supporting each other. 

We have recently recruited ten volunteers from across the country to join the new Survivor Researcher Network working group. The new group members…

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Added by Jill Anderson on July 20, 2017 at 8:00 — No Comments

Wellbeing practitioner posts at Sheffield Hallam University

2 wellbeing practitioner posts are now live on the recruitment portal.

There are opportunities for wellbeing  practitioners to join an existing team of multidisciplinary staff:…

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Added by Jill Anderson on July 19, 2017 at 11:15 — No Comments

Network of Academics with Disabilities and Chronic Conditions

We are Chronically Academic, a network of academics with disabilities and chronic conditions. We welcome members across all academic disciplines. Our aim is to create a network of mutual support and resources for academics with disabilities and chronic conditions and to raise public awareness for our cause. Our team members all have personal experiences with disabilities and/or chronic conditions. We aim to help others with practical advice in finding concrete solutions to the issues they…

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Added by Jill Anderson on July 16, 2017 at 22:33 — No Comments

International Network Toward Alternatives and Recovery 2016 - Video presentations

The Videos uploaded on this Channel are a glimpse of presentations selected and edited from INTAR India 2016 (26-28 November, 2016, Lavasa, Maharashtra).

'India, and nearly all countries in Asia region, have ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). Persons with mental health problems and psychosocial disabilities are still on the margins of efforts at mainstreaming disabilities in development.

We have faith in Article 19…

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Added by Jill Anderson on July 14, 2017 at 23:14 — No Comments

UUK work on Mental Health in Higher Education

Universities UK has established a programme of work on mental health in higher education to ensure that wellbeing and mental health are a strategic priority for universities. Two principles inform this work:

  • ​​​We all have mental health, well or unwell.
  • A whole university approach to wellbeing is needed.

 We are working in partnership with Public…

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Added by Jill Anderson on July 14, 2017 at 12:38 — 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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