Disability and the Global South: An International Journal…
Enhancing learning and teaching about mental health across the disciplines
This looks like an interesting initiative. . .
We are living in times when nothing short of global cooperation can successfully address the dire problems developing in the world today.…
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Blog DSM-V and beyond: a special issue of Feminism and Psychology 1 Like Wellbeing and academia What are the issues? For students, educators, others involved in an academic setting. There are two collections of links on bundlr here: Wellbeing and Academia Student Mental Health There are two ot… Discussion Wellbeing and academia 1 Like LGBT History Month - Seminar Presentations event LGBT History Month - Seminar Presentations 1 Like Plugging the Gap: turning strangers into neighboursCommunities facing the sharp ends of cuts can be protected from some of the worst impacts by strong local networks of ordinary people. However, local and central government need to invest in…
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Would anyone else like the idea of a 'critical friends' group on here for people who are writing? The idea would be that the members could review each others work prior to submission…
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Blog Nicola Williamson - a journey to recovery 1 Like Globalising mental health or pathologising the global south? Call for PapersDisability and the Global South: An International Journal…
I've been looking at this often (if you sign up you get a regular email update/link); http://www.disabilityscoop.com/ . This is a US site and seems…
Blog interesting website... 1 Like Involving service users with dementia or lea… Group Involving service users with dementia or lea… 3 Likes Only smarties have the answer - new film from MindreelAt the age of 19 Aidan Shingler was diagnosed as having paranoid schizophrenia. In this film he talks about his attitude towards this diagnosis and uses animation to parody and satirise…
Blog Only smarties have the answer - new film from Mindreel 1 Like Disability and Madness - special edition of Disability Studies QuarterlyRoyal Holloway, University of London - 10-12 July 2013
Throughout the history of social work and social work education there have been struggles. Recent years have proven…
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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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