December 2013 Blog Posts (34)

LERNterns: An Internship Program For High School & College Level People With Lived Experience

This is an extremely interesting initiative from the US.

The LERNterns Program seeks to build the research workforce capacity of individuals with lived experience of the behavioral health and disabilities systems or who identify as having a psychiatric disability and/or history. LERNterns will be matched with LERN staffers and may be high school or undergraduate students, or community members not currently enrolled in school. Currently, we know of no existing programs or initiatives…

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Added by Jill Anderson on December 5, 2013 at 13:09 — No Comments

Social Care Jargon Buster

52 of the most commonly used social care words and phrases and what they mean.

Download here.

Added by Jill Anderson on December 5, 2013 at 12:57 — 2 Comments

The Expansive Education Network

Expansive education is an umbrella term coined to describe teachers, schools, colleges and organisations that are committed to focusing on the development of useful, transferable habits of mind throughout mainstream education. Other words for 'habits of mind' include 'capabilities', 'competences', 'attributes' and 'dispositions'. Those interested in expansive education tend to use this kind of language as part of a conscious attempt to be more precise about what…

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Added by Jill Anderson on December 5, 2013 at 11:53 — No Comments

Co-production in social care: What it is and how to do it

This is a guide to what co-production is and how to develop co-productive approaches to working with people who use services and carers. It is aimed at managers and commissioners, frontline practitioners and people who use services and carers. Produced by SCIE. 

Visit the resource.

Added by Jill Anderson on December 5, 2013 at 1:06 — No Comments

Don't call me crazy, call me mad

'A lot of my experiences were ‘mad’ and made very little sense to me or people around – but part of me is just ‘mad’ and in a strange way I quite like that'.  A great video blog by David Crepaz-Keay.  How might you make use of this in teaching?

View it here.

Added by Jill Anderson on December 5, 2013 at 0:00 — No Comments

The waiting room - a personal story about end of life care for people with dementia

Gerry Harris is 92 and has vascular dementia. Because there are no beds available in specialist care homes he is confined to a psychiatric ward in the local hospital. There is nothing for him to do there. The NHS is overloaded and cannot give him the time or the resources to help him with the awful consequences of his disease. So he must live out the rest of his life, either drugged or in distress. HIs family do what they can to visit and keep his spirits up but as the dementia takes…

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Added by Jill Anderson on December 4, 2013 at 18:21 — No Comments

How do you measure patient/carer involvement in HEI’s and what is success?

Read and respond to Trevor Kettle's blog posting HERE.

What do you think of Arnstein's ladder of involvement? Have we moved beyond it?

Added by Jill Anderson on December 3, 2013 at 19:28 — 2 Comments

Feminist and Women's Studies Association - Student essay prize

The FWSA is delighted to announce that we are now accepting submissions for our 10th anniversary student essay competition. To encourage a new generation of feminist scholars, the FWSA sponsors an annual student essay competition for work which is innovative, interdisciplinary and grounded in feminist theory and practice. The top seven entries will be judged by our anniversary judging panel and will be published in the Journal of International Women’s Studies. In…

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Added by Jill Anderson on December 2, 2013 at 23:13 — No Comments

On wounded healers and 'coming out'. . .

Interesting comment from Rufus May, on a blog about Marsha Linehan:

'I think the world is wounded by us, by our consumerism and our pollution and our unequal societies. I think because we are part of this world that wound is carried within all of us. If we look at it like this anyone helping others is a wounded healer. I wish in…

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Added by Jill Anderson on December 2, 2013 at 13:38 — 1 Comment

A need to belong: what leads girls to join gangs

This Centre for Mental Health report is the result of an analysis of data collected for more than 8,000 young people at the point of arrest.  On average, young women involved with gangs had more than double the number of vulnerabilities than the other girls who were screened after arrest. The results of the screening shows clear evidence of the psychological vulnerability of gang involved young women.  …

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Added by Jill Anderson on December 2, 2013 at 10:30 — No Comments

Activism in Sociology Froum

During the BSA Annual Conference 2013 many discussions within the streams and outside of the structured space centred upon the debate of how we recognize, practice and disseminate ‘public sociologies’?  There appears to be an urgent need within Sociology to bring together different academics, researchers, and social scientists from all subject areas within the discipline to use their work within a public context. There are already research groups, individuals, and schools who are…

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Added by Jill Anderson on December 2, 2013 at 10:28 — No Comments

Using online bloggs in research - suggestions for a novice?

Hi

I'm looking for tips on ways of using blogs as a means of data-gathering in research. 

 

I'm starting a project integrating mindfulness into the curriculum for SW students and hope to capture the in-situ experiecens of students on placement, in particular how they're using mindfulness to 'manage' situations that arise.  I'm not that familiar with the technical side of it and wondered if anyone had experience of this or suggestions as to how best to get the students to…

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Added by pearse mccusker on December 2, 2013 at 9:54 — 3 Comments

mhhehub twitter video

View it HERE.

Added by Jill Anderson on December 1, 2013 at 22:32 — No Comments

mhhehub chats: update!

This is just to let you know that the mhhehub chat which was to have taken place on Tuesday 3 December from 4-5pm has now been rescheduled - due to strike action - for Wednesday 4 December from 4-5pm.  The focus will be unchanged, viz: learning and teaching about mental health - a opportunity to share what you have been doing this term, your plans for next term, to pose questions and flag up resources. 

The following chat will take place as planned on Tuesday 10…

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Added by Jill Anderson on December 1, 2013 at 18:00 — 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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