Jill Anderson's Blog – June 2014 Archive (26)

Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work: Mental Health

Mental health social work is at an impasse. On the one hand, the emphasis in recent policy documents on the social roots of much mental distress ,and in the recovery approaches popular with service users seems to indicate an important role for a holistic social work practice. On the other hand, social workers have often been excluded from these initiatives and the dominant approach within mental health continues to be a medical one, albeit supplemented by short-term psychological…

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Added by Jill Anderson on June 9, 2014 at 21:00 — No Comments

Psychiatry for Medical Students: need for a more holistic approach to teaching.

Interesting letter in the Psychiatric Bulletin. Original link and contact details here.



Psychiatry for medical students: need for a more holistic approach to teaching?

Kristina Rodney and Laura Wilkinson - both ST4 medical students, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK



We are two medical students who wish to offer a perspective on undergraduate education and…

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Added by Jill Anderson on June 9, 2014 at 17:00 — No Comments

The Water Tower - mental health and creative practice

The Water Tower is a short film about an Arts Council funded project bringing psychiatric patients and NHS staff into a beautiful space for a series of creative workshops. The film explores the stories of a few people who developed work there and the benefits an artistic practice has had on their lives.

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Is anyone building creative practice in to their teaching about mental health?  If so, please…

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Added by Jill Anderson on June 7, 2014 at 16:50 — No Comments

Psychology and Mental Health: Beyond Nature and Nurture - online course

Psychological therapies and the work of clinical psychologists are now very popular. This free online course, starting in September, provides an introduction to how psychologists understand emotions, behaviours and thinking patterns, and how this helps clinical psychologists make sense of their clients’ problems.

Students will explore some of the current challenges and debates in the area of diagnosis and treatment and discover new ways of thinking psychologically about mental…

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Added by Jill Anderson on June 7, 2014 at 15:38 — No Comments

Diagnosing the diagnostic and statistical manual

Rachel Cooper's new book Diagnosing the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Karnac, 2014) has just been published. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, more commonly known as the D.S.M., is published by the American Psychiatric Association, and aims to list and describe all mental disorders. The publication of D.S.M-5 in 2013 brought many changes. Diagnosing the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental…

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Added by Jill Anderson on June 5, 2014 at 19:47 — No Comments

Social work education leads the way on involving service users

Article in the Guardian by Peter Beresford, plus comments.  Read it here.

Added by Jill Anderson on June 4, 2014 at 9:27 — 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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