Enhancing learning and teaching about mental health across the disciplines
Hi all
I am planning to organise an online chat, sometime this term, on the implications of Mad Studies for qualifying education.
Am currently gauging interest, so please let me know if you might be interested.
There is a recent article by Peter Beresford, on Mad studies, here.
There is also an evolving set of resources…
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CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline: November 14, 2014
Full Chapters Due: April 27, 2015
Book Title: University Partnerships in Higher Education
An edited volume by Dr. Patrick Blessinger (International HETL Association) and Dr. Barbara Cozza (St. John’s University, USA)
Volume five of the book series, Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning,…
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Vulnerable Groups & Inclusion is an international peer reviewed Open Access journal that addresses research on risk groups and marginalization. This special issue of the journal focuses on the inclusion of disabled people in post-secondary education as researchers, collaborators, teachers, and students. We are interested in papers exploring the experiences of disabled people in any of these roles, the ways in which inclusion is related to the visions…
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Is anyone involving children and young people in teaching sessions or in programme planning. If so, do you have any experience and/or resources to share? Many thanks.
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Within the domains of criminal justice and mental health care, critical debate concerning ‘care’ versus ‘control’ and ‘therapy’ versus ‘security’ is now commonplace. Indeed, the ‘hybridisation’ of these areas is now a familiar theme. This unique and topical text provides an array of expert analyses from key contributors in the field that explore the interface between criminal justice and mental health. Using concise yet robust definitions of key terms and concepts, it consolidates…
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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, more commonly known as the DSM, is published by the American Psychiatric Association and aims to list and describe all mental disorders. The publication of DSM-V in 2013 brought many changes. Diagnosing the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, by Rachel Cooper, is written for all those who wonder whether the DSM-V now classifies the right people in the right way. It is aimed at patients, mental health…
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Publisher's blurb: 'A woman habitually commits self-injury, ingesting light bulbs, a box of nails, zippers and a steak knife. A new mother is admitted with incessant visions of harming her child. A recent graduate, dressed in a tunic and declaring that love emanates from everything around him, is brought to A&E by his alarmed girlfriend. These are among the patients new physician Christine Montross meets during rounds at her hospital’s locked inpatient ward – and who we meet as she…
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This new book by Peter Kindeman may be of interest. 'A Prescription for Psychiatry lays bare the flaws and failings of traditional mental health care and offers a radical alternative. Exposing the old-fashioned biological 'disease model' of psychiatry as unscientific and unhelpful, it calls for a revolution in the way we plan and deliver care. Kinderman challenges the way we think about mental health problems, arguing that the origins of distress are largely social, and…
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In The Medicalization Trap, Dr Gloria Wright constructively and critically explores the process involved in “becoming known” as ADHD. This thought provoking study illuminates how diagnostic labels such as “ADHD” actually emerge. It’s a “must read” for parents, medical and health professionals, parents, social workers and anyone interested in how labeling actually comes about. Dr Gloria Wright examines range of theoretical underpinnings to ADHD through the narratives of mothers.…
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A new addition to the YoungMinds website is Academic Resilience.
The Academic Resilience approach supports schools to have a greater impact on the achievements of their most vulnerable or disadvantaged pupils. It comprises free, accessible resources including practical tools, case studies, film clips, and downloads.
The resources will…
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Does anyone have or know any good practices in supporting undergraduate students with ADHD in higher education?
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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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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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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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Three sample articles are available on the Asylum website:
Beyond the Pale – Raza Griffiths
An Illustrated Mind – Kathryn Watson …
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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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Health Education England has commissioned 11 videos centered on real-life experience of specialists in the social work field.
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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.
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A section of the Skills for Care website has been developed for mental health social workers and AMHPs
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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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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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