Enhancing learning and teaching about mental health across the disciplines
Produced by the National Development Team for Inclusion, this guide aims to help all those involved understand how things will need to be done differently to make personalisation a reality for…
Blog Paths to personalisation in mental health: a whole system, whole life framework 1 Like Mad Matters: A critical Reader in Canadian Mad StudiesEdited by Brenda A. LeFrançois, Robert Menzies and Geoffrey Reaume
In 1981, Toronto activist Mel Starkman wrote: "An important new movement is sweeping through the western world....…
This is a history of resistance to processes of medicalization of mental illness. Hearing voices is still considered as a psychiatric illnes: Gruppo Voci tries to overcome through dialogue and…
Blog Written by Voice: a history of resistance 1 Like CALL ME CRAZY - STORIES FROM THE MAD MOVEMENT Great post from Pride In MadnessIt is commonplace in the UK and elsewhere for mental health service users to start working alongside mental health professionals in what is known as a ‘consumer-provider’ role. This can include a…
Blog Employing consumer-providers in mental health services: new Cochrane review. 1 Like A practical guide to social media in mental health practiceThis new 30-page guide is pitched at the novice and includes an introduction to social media and some very clear explanations about the different websites and techniques that you need to get up…
Blog A practical guide to social media in mental health practice 1 Like We need a new language for mental health - discussion hosted by the ReaderThe Reader Organisation is calling for a new language to talk about mental health, with senior health professionals, readers and writers discussing the idea in the opening session of the charity’s…
Blog We need a new language for mental health - discussion hosted by the Reader 1 Like Student mental healthI am attaching a link to a newsletter produced at the University of Bradford on student mental health. This is distributed amongst staff and students.…
Blog Student mental health 1 Like Souzou - Outside art from JapanExhibition at the Wellcome Collection. The 46 artists represented in the show are residents and day attendees at social welfare institutions across Japan. The wonderfully diverse collection…
Blog Souzou - Outside art from Japan 1 LikeThis recent report may be of interest.
An Avalanche is Coming sets out vividly the challenges ahead for higher education, not just in the US or UK but around the world. Just as we’ve seen…
Blog An Avalanche is Coming - Higher Education and the Revolution ahead 1 Like How can universities support disadvantaged communities?: new reportUniversities can support disadvantaged communities by providing access to opportunities and facilities, resources and expertise. This study shows how universities are successfully engaging with…
Blog How can universities support disadvantaged communities?: new report 1 Like Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice (JPAAP) - Call for Papers and ReviewersVolume 1 Issue 1
Deadline: 5 April 2013
The Editorial Board are delighted to announce the first call for papers or other contributions for Volume 1…
An online event by Mental Wealth UK and Open Your Mind, bringing together the best learnings, opinions and resources for promoting student wellbeing and developing university campuses into…
Blog 2013 Student Wellbeing Web Summit 1 Like Innovative learning for sexual, reproductive and mental health - Workshop for female mental health service users- 19 April 2013Dear Readers
At the Centre for Women's Mental Health in the University of Manchester, we are offering a FREE half day workshop for female mental health service users who wish…
Blog Innovative learning for sexual, reproductive and mental health - Workshop for female mental health service users- 19 April 2013 1 Like Philosophy and Psychiatry: Just the Facts[Reblogged from my blog. Thanks for the suggestion, Julie!]
As readers know, I’ve been fuming for the last several days about the latest Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology…
Blog Philosophy and Psychiatry: Just the Facts 2 Likes Dialogue with Professor KCast of Characters: Nev, Professor K (editor of prominent philosophy of psychiatry journal), Chorus (only heard by audience)
N: So, Professor, I’ve noticed…
Blog Dialogue with Professor K 1 Like Personalisation There is an interesting discussion on personalisation unfolding on the mhhe jiscmail list (the three postings below are reproduced most recent first): The jiscmail list is here: <a href="http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk">www.jiscmail.ac.uk</a>\mh… Discussion Personalisation 1 LikeContent taken from Mark Carrigan's blog…
Blog The para-academic handbook: call for contributions. 2 Likes Journal of Health and Social Care Education: Call for PapersThe HEA Journal of Health and Social Care Education has issued a call for papers. The new editor is in the process of shifting the journal from its current position and scope by widening…
Blog Journal of Health and Social Care Education: Call for Papers 1 Like Innovative learning for sexual, reproductive and mental healthPosted 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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