A Chara,
A
lot of things happening in the Peer Support, Human Rights and Community
Development spaces in relation to mental Health
World
Health Organisation Free Training
The
World Health Organsiation is delivering QualityRights e-training on Mental
Health, Recovery and Community Inclusion training online on the 15th
of March 2024. Join over 100,000 learners on this innovative online
course and earn an official certificate from the World Health Organization!
This training is free and it covers:
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Understand and improve your own mental health and wellbeing
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Learn how to support friends, family & members of the community who
experience mental health difficulties
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Gain the knowledge and skills to tackle stigma, discrimination, abuses &
coercive practices
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Learn how to provide mental health support to people with a mental health
condition or experiencing a crisis
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Learn how to actively engage people in their own treatment, care and support
plan, providing tools & empowering them to overcome challenges
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Gain valuable expertise & skills to lead reform towards a person-centred,
rights-based, recovery approach
Sign
up here: https://humanrights-etrain-qualityrights.coorpacademy.com/signup
This
training is for everyone:
Persons
with lived experience, the health & social care workforce, first
responders, members of the justice system (for ex. police officers, prison
officers, judges), teachers, family or community members, policymakers,
employees of government, private and not-for-profit sectors.
ECT
Research
A team of 3 people with experience of receiving
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) and 3 psychologists co-designed this first
online international survey on the positive, negative or mixed experiences of
this treatment. This is for family and friends too. The views and experiences
of people using services are essential and too often not heard. This survey has
been supported by MIND Charity (see attached).
Who the survey is for and things to consider:
· You
are at least 18 years old and have had ECT at any point, other than the last 4
weeks.
· You
are family or friends of someone who has had ECT at any point.
· The
survey takes about 30-40 minutes.
· Full
participant information is available when you click the link below.
·
If questions about ECT or about the experiences that led you to having ECT
might be distressing for you, please seriously consider not taking the survey.
Survey link: https://uelpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_57KmQWiynXIhMNw
Prof John Read (Lead Researcher) profile: https://uel.ac.uk/about-uel/staff/john-read
In 2022 Professor Read was
listed in Stanford University’s register of the top 2% most cited researchers
in the world. He has published six reviews of the ECT research literature
(including four in peer-reviewed journals) and made multiple commentaries on
the research. The journals in which these papers have been published include
leading international medical and psychiatry journals such as: British Medical
Journal (2019), British Journal of Psychiatry (2021, 2021); Epidemiology and
Psychiatric Sciences (2010 & 2022), Frontiers in Psychiatry (2014), Journal
of Clinical Psychiatry (2021), Lancet-Psychiatry (2022) and Psychological
Medicine (2022).
His most recent peer-reviewed
review of the ECT literature was a 40-page paper, in 2019, written with
Professor Irving Kirsch, Associate Director of Placebo Studies at Harvard
Medical School. He is also the lead researcher on two independent audits of the
administration and monitoring of ECT in England’s National Health Service, and
co-author of three studies of the accuracy of information provided to ECT
patients and their families.
Peer Support Literature
Review
Gavin Davidson who lead the
team in the recent literature review sent on the summary and main document to
circulate. Please see same attached.
Certificate in Peer Support in
Mental Health Open Day
Our next open day is on zoom at 11.00 am on the
20th of February sign up here for more details. https://dcu-ie.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApfuGppj0rH9Uw_kFgcECZw5MNuDBRmnu7
Better Together Launch
Please find attached a letter of invitation for
the launch of Better Together services and it's partnership research with South
East
Technological University. This event will be officially launched
by Minister Hildegarde Naughton on Thursday 22nd February in Kilkenny
at 12pm. Please reserve your place by emailing aisling.ennis@hse.ie at your
earliest convenience and by the latest 19th February 2024.
Mad in Ireland
If you want to write for Mad in Ireland have a
look at https://madinireland.com/submission-guidelines/
Community Development Mental
Health Group
The Community Development
Mental Health Network brings together our members who are concerned with
current models of mental health provision and seek the development of
emancipatory and human-rights based approaches to mental health. This includes
transformative, integrative and empowering adult education and community
development approaches to healing, inclusion and mental health.
The vision of this
working group is “a society where people are free from coercion, where mental
health and wellbeing, and the recognition of both distress and madness, are all
valued as central to the interests of the communities in which we live, and
where healing, empowerment, inclusion and equality are all celebrated”.
Register your interest at info@cwi.ie
