The Mental Elf

Improving housing and recovery outcomes for persons experiencing homelessness and mental health challenges. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The 'inconvenient complications' of peer support in mental health. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Natalie Drew Bold from the WHO tells us about the QualityRights initiative, which aims to improve access to good quality mental health and social services and to promote the rights of people with psychosocial disabilities throughout the worldhttps://www.who.int/mental_health/policy/quality_rights/en/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Peer support : an under-utilized resource in low-middle income countries. Soumitra Pathare (@netshrink) is a Consultant Psychiatrist & Director of Centre for Mental Health Law & Policy at the Indian Law Society, Pune, India https://cmhlp.org/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Prof Mike Slade from the University of Nottingham previews the Refocus on Recovery conference that's taking place in Nottingham on 3-5 September 2019.“One of the things we’ve worked hard to do is not to be a cheerleading almost quasi-religious supporting of recovery as a banner…we’re much more thoughtfully critical…and this plays into a lot of discussion going on about recovery being commandeered...

Prof Samson Tse, Professor of Mental Health at The University of Hong Kong, previews the Refocus on Recovery debate that will take place in Nottingham on 5th Sep 2019.The debate motion at the conference this year is:This house believes that there is no place for compulsion in a rights-oriented mental health system. The debate will be chaired by Prof Samson Tse. Dr Alison Faulkner and Prof Peter Ba...

Professor Jonathan Bisson from Cardiff University talks about the new PTSD Prevention and Treatment Guidelines published in March 2019 by the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.http://www.istss.org/treating-trauma/new-istss-prevention-and-treatment-guidelines.aspx Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Trainee Psychiatrist and Researcher Mark Horowitz speaks about his recent viewpoint piece published in The Lancet Psychiatry on tapering of SSRI treatment to mitigate withdrawal symptoms. Read this Mental Elf blog for a summary of this paper by Horowitz and Taylor (2019):https://www.nationalelfservice.net/treatment/antidepressants/antidepressant-withdrawal-slower-and-lower-tapering-of-ssris/ Hoste...

Why is it so difficult to implement digital interventions in the NHS?Read Mark Brown's blog on the systematic review by Golnar Aref-Adib here: https://www.nationalelfservice.net/treatment/digital-health/digital-interventions-psychosis-bipolar-disorder/Read about Trish Greenhalgh's NASSS Framework here: https://www.jmir.org/2017/11/e367/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Rethink Chair of Trustees and Head of Campaigning and Public Affairs talk about their work in relation to mental health carers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Prof Steven Jones from Lancaster University talking about his work on the REACT trial: why it's important to involve peer supporters in helping carers and what support they need to make this successful. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Service User Researcher from the Spectrum Centre at Lancaster University talking at the #MentalHealthCarers event in Manchester. Chris’s presentation will try and explain the feelings associated with the early experiences of severe mental health conditions, and especially how that relates to any understanding of what was happening to the world and life in general. Looking at how the onset of illne...

Every Third Minute team from Leeds Playhouse by The Mental Elf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Penny Kirk and Colin from the NHS England Dementia and Older People's Mental Health Clinical Network Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ian James by The Mental Elf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Francis Duffy by The Mental Elf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Prof Esme Moniz-Cook, Professor of Ppsychology Ageing and Dementia Care Research at the University of Hull. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr Krishnan @psychinformatic, Delirium podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Natalie Creary, Director of Black Thrive, talks about her work to improve health and wellbeing for black and mixed race communities. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Prof Ann John from Swansea University talks to Mark Brown about why boring research is exciting and why we might not always be on different sides. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“Recovery is someone to love; somewhere to live; something meaningful to do” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Karen Morley and Richard Morley talk to Mark Brown at the #MHResearchForMe meeting. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Announcing a new partnership between the Mental Health Foundation and the Cochrane Common Mental Disorders group. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Iris Benson MBE talks about her own lived experience of being restrained whilst a patient in a mental health inpatient unit. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Three people from the COMPARE study talk about their work to reduce restrictive practices in mental health. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.