Enhancing learning and teaching about mental health across the disciplines
What would we give for a treatment for first-episode psychosis that led to a 90% reduction in the diagnosis of schizophrenia? In Western Lapland the mental health system achieves this with Open…
Blog Open Dialogue 3 Likes The MadQuarry dictionary: a consumer's guide to the language of mental healthIn July 2012 Our Consumer Place (an Australian initiative) launched a national competition inviting consumers – and anyone else who was interested – to contribute towards a collection of…
Blog The MadQuarry dictionary: a consumer's guide to the language of mental health 2 LikesHello all,
The ESRC funded 'geographies of missing people' project launched its main report this week, alongside 'Missing People, Missing Voices: stories of missing experience'…
Blog Missing and mental health 2 Likes How would you like to use this group? This group can potentially provide a space for students from different institutions, disciplines and parts of the world to meet and share ideas. I have set it up initially, but suggest that it might… Discussion How would you like to use this group? 1 Like Debating diagnosis and rethinking the way we teach about mental healthBlog posting by Dave Harper - introduces new book and linked resources for lecturers on Psychology, Mental Health and Distress. …
Blog Debating diagnosis and rethinking the way we teach about mental health 2 Likes Critical Pedagogies: Equality and Diversity… event Critical Pedagogies: Equality and Diversity… 1 Like Mental health and distress: collaborative curriculum developmentLearning and teaching about mental health in social work. Follow our discussions this week in Lancaster, on twitter: #mhcurr
Blog Mental health and distress: collaborative curriculum development 1 Like 10 years of mhhe: a tale on 'storify'mhhe is celebrating its ten year anniversary this year. I've been experimenting with 'storify'. See my efforts here: …
Blog 10 years of mhhe: a tale on 'storify' 3 Likes Some publications of mine that may be of interest.1) My recently published book:…
Blog Some publications of mine that may be of interest. 1 Like Madness, Science and the Crisis in Psychiatry: key questionsThis recent article by Phil Thomas can be found at:…
Blog Madness, Science and the Crisis in Psychiatry: key questions 2 LikesThis doctoral programme provides social care practitioners, managers, educators and policy makers with the chance to develop advanced research skills rooted in their own professional experience,…
Blog Professional doctorate in social care and emotional wellbeing 2 Likes the demise of biological psychiatry?In the last few weeks, as the publication of DSM 5 grows near, there have been some unprecedented reactions to the new psychiatric bible. The 3 that stick out are
1. activity on twitter…
Blog the demise of biological psychiatry? 3 Likes New approach to psychology teaching - Bishop Grosseteste UniversityAn academic who specialises in how arts activity can facilitate mental wellbeing is leading the new psychology degree course at Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln.
Olivia Sagan has…
Blog New approach to psychology teaching - Bishop Grosseteste University 1 Like Open Paradigm ProjectThe Open Paradigm Project is dedicated to fostering the voices and perspectives that accompany changing realities and new understandings of ourselves and the world. We believe these voices –…
Blog Open Paradigm Project 1 Like HCPC - new user and carer standard Any thoughts/reactions? Anyone know what is happening about funding for involvement? The Health and Care Professions Council held a consultation between 3 September 2012 and 7 December 2012 on a pro… Discussion HCPC - new user and carer standard 1 Like Strictly Bipolar: New bookIf the post-war period was called the 'Age of Anxiety' and the 1980s and '90s the 'Antidepressant Era', we now live in Bipolar times. Mood-stabilising medication is routinely prescribed to adults…
Blog Strictly Bipolar: New book 2 Likes Shared practice in non-medicalised mental he… event Shared practice in non-medicalised mental he… 1 LikeRadio 4 series exploring the development of the science of psychology during the 20th century. A whole range of episodes available online. …
Blog Mindchangers 1 Like First-person accounts of psychosis: challenges for mental health professionalsProfessorial Lecture - Professor Gail A Hornstein First-person accounts of psychosis: challenges for mental health professionals
Friday 31 May 2013 5 for 5.30pm Room 9130, Cantor Building,…
Blog First-person accounts of psychosis: challenges for mental health professionals 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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