RESTART: Top 10 Research Priorities for Dental Care in People with Lived Experience of Severe Mental Distress
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Trigger Warning: Self-Harm, Suicide
mailchi.mp/mcpin/sash-studyImproving quality in inpatient mental health settings
We are conducting a scoping and design exercise to identify the key actions that mental health providers can make to improve the use of the Mental Health Act (MHA) in preparation for the proposed MHA reforms and design interventions to help mental health providers implement the identified actions.
www.rcpsych.ac.uk/improving-care/nccmh/QualityinMentalHealthSettingsA Good Practice Guide:
Improving service provision
for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller
domestic abuse survivors
February 2022
About the Traveller Movement
The Traveller Movement is a registered UK charity promoting inclusion and community engagement
with Gypsies, Roma and Travellers. The Traveller Movement seeks to empower and support Gypsy,
Roma and Traveller communities to advocate for the full implementation of their human rights
travellermovement.org.uk/static/8b8aea8acfcde52e4665d28035bde2d5/2022.02.25-DA-Good-Practice-Guide.pdfIn 2014, Dr. Dainius Pūras became the first medical doctor to be appointed by the UN Human Rights Council as Special Rapporteur on the right to physical and mental health. Throughout his tenure, Dr. Pūras pushed for a paradigm shift in mental health care, writing several ground-breaking reports.
As a researcher and human rights advocate, Dr. Pūras has led and actively participated in projects at the national and international level in public mental health, policies and services for children and families at risk, rights of children with developmental disabilities, and violence prevention.
He is a professor at Vilnius University, Lithuania, and the director of the Human Rights Monitoring Institute, an NGO based in Vilnius.
A Brief Timeline: The right to mental health at the Human Rights Council
www.handover-dialogues.org/legacy/UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON THE RIGHT TO HEALTH
www.handover-dialogues.org/We promote humane, non-coercive mental health services
We are a network of people in the UK promoting the development of drug-free and minimum medication therapeutic environments for people experiencing ‘psychosis’ or extreme states. We are part of an international movement of service users, survivors, activists, carers and professionals fighting for more humane, non-coercive mental health services.
People who hear voices, have visions or experience reality in different ways to those around them — and become overwhelmed by their experiences — are often referred to as experiencing ‘psychosis’. We believe that people can and do recover from difficulties which tend to be categorised under the term psychosis. This recovery can be with, without and sometimes despite psychiatric intervention.
www.soterianetwork.org.uk/‘Negotiating the swamp’: Struggles and ways forward in navigating our identities as experts ‘with’ experience in academic research contexts
About this event
An online dialogue with Dina Poursanidou, Veenu Gupta and Helen Spandler
Dina and Veenu will reflect on being experts ‘with’ experience in UK academic research contexts, and on negotiating and navigating these roles that embody both personal and professional identities. Dina and Veenu will ask Helen to share, from their own academic position, their experience of working with experts ‘with’ experience in academia, and their own difficulties and struggles in understanding and supporting these individuals. Together they want to explore ways to make the landscape better for experts ‘with’ experience.
Dina Poursanidou – Mental health service user researcher, member of the Asylum Magazine editorial group
Veenu Gupta – PhD student, lived experience researcher
Helen Spandler – Professor of mental health, editor of Asylum Magazine
www.eventbrite.nl/e/negotiating-the-swamp-experts-with-experience-online-dialogue-series-registration-290264618287Lived Experience Workers
We're developing our online communities for people across the UK who want to connect with similarly minded folk seeking to transform approaches to mental health and trauma in their community, workplace or public service. Our current communities are:
www.peerhub.co.uk/online-communitiesWe are launching Traumascapes and writing a new narrative of trauma.
About this event
Join us to celebrate the launch of Traumascapes!
We are a survivor-led organisation dedicated to changing the ecosystem of trauma and creating new horizons for survivors through art and science. Join us to launch and celebrate this journey!
What to expect
An evening of talks, music, dance, film, poetry, and visual art that introduce Traumascapes' community, purpose, and work - with an emphasis on addressing trauma, reclaiming the narrative, and celebrating the power of survivors and the joy we all deserve
A vibrant community of activists, artists, scientists, and clinicians with an interest in trauma
Vegetarian finger foods and non-alcoholic drinks
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/traumascapes-launch-tickets-295797065987An open and inclusive space for self-identifying LGBTQ+ South Asian/POC students to connect, learn and support one another
About this event
We acknowledge that everything happening now and over the last two years has impacted in a big way, and has especially heightened existing health inequalities within our societies. In this gathering we are inviting LGBTQ+ South Asian/ POC folx with experiences surrounding mental health, neurodiversity, long-term health conditions and/ disabled to gather together, to connect, support, learn and celebrate.
We have a wonderful guest facilitator Nikita (she/her), who is a writer, poet, social commentator, advocate and a lead facilitator for Cysters. She is committed to empowering intersectionality, spotlighting the ‘other’, those who are chronically unheard and underrepresented within society.
Her poetry focuses on the experience of the South Asian diaspora, mental health and identity.
Who is this for?
This community discussion group is for all students (aged 18+) who identify as Punjabi/ South Asian or POC, and this is a queer affirmative space for those who personally identify with or are questioning any aspect(s) of gender, sexuality and relationship diversity.
Folx who identify (self or formal diagnoses) with having mental health experiences, neurodiversity, long-term health conditions and/ disabled.
The space is open to all faiths and none.
The facilitators endeavour to embody anti-oppression in their thought and practice, inviting space for queer freedom to be, to live.
www.eventbrite.com/e/omp-queer-hearts-mental-health-neurodiversity-long-term-conditions-tickets-298298858917Mad Studies Xtra: State Of The Union
Check out our availability and book the date and time that works for you
www.pinkskythinking.com/booking-calendar/mad-studies-xtra-state-of-the-unionUnison to raise an LXP Motion at April Conference
Posted byLXPRevolution4th Apr 2022Posted inUncategorized
lxprevolution.co.uk/2022/04/04/unison-to-raise-an-lxp-motion-at-april-conference/From ‘they’ to ‘we’
Reflections on working as
lived experience advisors
media.samaritans.org/documents/Lived_experience_advisor_FINAL.pdf“If You Are Not A Patient They Like, Then You Have Capacity”
“If you are not a patient they like, then you have capacity”: Exploring Mental Health Patient and Survivor Experiences of being told “You Have the Capacity to End Your Life”
[Content warning: Mention of suicide, self-harm, iatrogenic harm, psychiatric abuse]
Please note: While I use the term ‘personality disorder’ throughout, I am in no way endorsing or agreeing with the PD construct. I do not believe ‘personality disorder’ is a valid diagnosis, and stand in fierce opposition to its clinical use. Please see my position statement for further information.
www.psychiatryisdrivingmemad.co.uk/post/if-you-are-not-a-patient-they-like-then-you-have-capacityServices Directory
NSUN not a service provider, and we cannot take on individual advocacy and casework. This page lists some forms of support and resources for specific situations relating to mental health such as welfare claims and human rights. We welcome your suggestions for resources to add: please email info@nsun.org.uk, quoting ‘services directory’ in the subject line. Please note that we aim to only add free resources to the below list, and please also note that the listing of an organisation on this page is not an endorsement.
If you would like to be signposted to any user-led groups in your area, get in touch with us. Mind also keep a directory of local peer support groups.
www.nsun.org.uk/research-resources/national-services-directory/