Enhancing learning and teaching about mental health across the disciplines
'The International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal (IIPDW) was created to respond to a glaring need in mental health: to develop ways for helping people withdraw from psychiatric…
Blog International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal 2 Likes 1000 conversations: speaking out on mental healthStories of people with lived experience of mental health difficulties - shared on the Centre for Mental Health website. …
Blog 1000 conversations: speaking out on mental health 1 Like Mental Health commissioning with migrant communities - new guide from MINDThis guide provides clear guidance on how to engage decision makers , locally and nationally, in mapping and meeting the needs of refugees within their communities who may otherwise remain…
Blog Mental Health commissioning with migrant communities - new guide from MIND 1 LikeThis 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…
Blog Being mindful of mental health - The role of local government in mental health and wellbeing 1 Like Emotions linked to depression - engaging teaching resourcesI was asked today about engaging resources for integrating in to teaching on the emotions - as linked to depression.
I came up with a very miscellaneous list! (see below). Any other…
Blog Emotions linked to depression - engaging teaching resources 1 Like Understanding Psychosis - revised version now outUnderstanding Psychosis has been revised - to address concerns about a lack of attention in the original report to the role of cultural differences, and how those impact on individual…
Blog Understanding Psychosis - revised version now out 1 Like The Mind in the Media - Radio 4 programmeIf you ask the author, Nathan Filer, when he first came into contact with mental illness, he'll tell you it was in 1999 when he first became a psychiatric nurse. But, like many of us, he'd…
Blog The Mind in the Media - Radio 4 programme 1 Like Strengths based social work with adultsIn 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…
Blog Strengths based social work with adults 1 Like The State of Care in Mental Health Services: 2014-2017In 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…
Blog The State of Care in Mental Health Services: 2014-2017 1 Like CrazywiseCrazy…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…
Blog Crazywise 1 Like Green light toolkit - MH, autism and learning disabilitiesAn NDTi guide to auditing and improving mental health services so that they are effective in supporting people with autism and people with learning disabilities.…
Blog Green light toolkit - MH, autism and learning disabilities 1 Like Creative Health: The arts for health and wellbeingReport produced by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing Inquiry
Key messages (courtesy of Clive Parkinson's blog)
1. The…
Blog Creative Health: The arts for health and wellbeing 1 LikePublisher's blurb: 'In order to work effectively with people with personality disorders it is important that Mental Health Social Workers (MHSWs) have a clear understanding of trauma and its…
Blog Critiquing personality disorder - new book 1 LikeSocial workers play a vital role in preventing mental health crises and should be given more scope to practice their skills, an inquiry into mental health services in England has found.…
This is a leaflet based on a discussion on personality disorder diagnoses that took place in the Recovery in the Bin Facebook group. The leaflet was published in …
Blog A simple guide to avoid receiving a diagnosis of personality disorder 1 LikeLinks to photographic resources that may be of use in learning and teaching about mental health.
Blog Photography and mental health 2 LikesThis guidance updates the Guidelines on Student Mental Health Policies and Procedures for Higher Education published in 2000 by taking account of the requirements of today’s students, the…
Blog Student Mental Wellbeing in Higher Education: Good Practice Guide 1 LikePosted by Jill Anderson on December 1, 2020 at 11:50 0 Comments 0 Likes
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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