Enhancing learning and teaching about mental health across the disciplines
Hi, I'm going to be recommending a few books I've read recently ... or not so recently ... so, I'll be back ...
William
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so, just going to mention 2 that i've read in the past month to start off with ... BRIEFING FOR A DESCENT INTO HELL by the recently departed Doris Lessing, and WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN by Lionel Shriver ... i will come back with reactions shortly, but by all means make responses as and when you feel, and tell me what you think about anything i say, or just go right ahead and make your own points.
By the way ~ if people tell me they haven't the 'time' to read fiction or poetry or interesting non-fiction books outside of their studies or work commitments, then i personally would conclude those people do not have a love of books. We make time for the things that we love, however busy we profess to be, or indeed genuinely are; if we're lucky, we give that time to our children (I wouldn't, again personally, dream of having children myself), our holidays (again, if we're lucky), our pets, our absorbing hobbies, etc. etc. The same principle applies to giving ourselves the time to connect with the deepest part of our being, through contemplation and meditation for instance. If we can't or won't give ourselves that valuable time either, then things are significantly out of balance, in my opinion.
Hi Will. There was an interesting article about the death of the novel, by Will Self, in the Guardian last weekend. Did you see it?
no, i'll definitely check this out thanks; i like Will Self, i saw him a few years ago in Manchester wiping the floor with heavyweights (in the literary sense) like Martin Amis ... he was so much wittier than the rest of them
How Novels can help us understand mental health, by Nathan Filer.
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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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