LTSN and the Mental Health in Higher Education Project

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LTSN and the Mental Health in Higher Education
Project

• Supporting learning and teaching in clinical
  psychology

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AIMS (1)

• To introduce three linked resources
• The Learning and Teaching Support Network
• The Psychology subject centre
• The Mental Health in Higher Education project
  (mhhe)

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AIMS (2)

• To encourage
• Engagement How might I make use of these?
• Ownership How would I like to see them
  develop?

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The Learning Teaching Support Network (LTSN)

• Funded by the four HE funding councils
• Promoting high quality learning and teaching in
  HE through
• A generic centre advising on cross cutting
  learning teaching issues
• A network of 24 subject centres offering subject
  specific expertise

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Generic Centre areas of activity
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LTSN Psychology

• Learning and Teaching Support Network for
  Psychology
• Based at York University
• Supports all aspects of teaching
• Supports project work
• Grants available!
• Disseminates information on good practice
• Publications
• Annual Conference

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LTSN Psychology projects

• Many!
• Interested in supporting Clinical Psychology
• Some examples
• which test on line resource at Salomons
• Romola Bucks at Southamptons project on ethics
  committee decision making
• Dave Greens training video on ethical aspects of
  clinical supervision

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Where next

• Many projects with relevance ongoing
• Project grants available!
• Coordinator main aim improving communication
  and sharing experiences
• New Web Board piloted
• closed and moderated (just trainers!)
• threads on different topics
• Ability to post documents

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Where next

• Web Board address
• http//ltsnpsy.york.ac.uk.8080/
• ClinicalPsychologyTraining/login
• Workshop tomorrow on curriculum
• Meeting next year?

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AIMS (1)

• To introduce three linked resources
• The Learning and Teaching Support Network
• The Psychology subject centre
• The Mental Health in Higher Education project
  (mhhe)

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mhhe

• A one-year
• collaborative project
• to enhance learning teaching
• about mental health
• in higher education

mhhe
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Four ltsn partners

• Psychology
• Health Sciences and Practice
• Social Policy and Social Work
• Medicine, Dentisty Veterinary Science
• (with links to other subject centres)

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Key themes

• Modernisation
• Models and approaches
• Personal experience
• User and carer involvement

• Stigma and discrimination
• Dealing with complexity
• Learning together

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I have well developed contacts with colleagues
involved in learning and teaching about mental
health within my own discipline/profession
Disagree strongly Agree
strongly

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I have well developed contacts with colleagues
involved in learning and teaching about mental
health from other disciplines and professions.
Disagree strongly
Agree strongly
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Mental Health Today, Sept 2003
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Aims

• To encourage the disciplines to learn from one
  another, and from others
• creating links between individuals and
  insitutions
• disseminating effective (and reflective) teaching
  practice
• To raise the profile of learning and teaching
  about mental health (and of MH educators)
• within and outside HE

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Outcomes

• a web-based resource exchange
• two good practice guides
• three regional workshops
• a set of case studies

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Workshops

• Paying more than lip service user involvement
  in learning and teaching about mental health in
  higher education
• (Derby, June 2003)
• Nobody knows as much as everybody sharing
  perspectives on mental health and how we learn
  and teach about it
• (Edinburgh, October 2003)

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What did you like about the Derby workshop?

• The blended community of service users and
  carers, academics and researchers.
• Meeting interesting people great conversations.
  
• Confirmation Im on the right track still a
  long way to go.
• Hearing people being very honest about the highs
  and lows of user involvement in training.
• Networking with others grappling with similar
  issues.

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Coming soon. . .

• Starting small and thinking big
• A workshop on interprofessional education about
  mental health
• 14 January 2004
• Arnos Manor hotel, Bristol

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Pavilion conference on MH training Sept 2003

Changing the way we teach about mental
health in higher education and professional
training blocks, levers and new resources Jill
Anderson Mental Health in Higher Education
Project Anne Cooke Salomons and British
Psychological Society This session will provide
participants with an opportunity to reflect on
their own teaching, or experience of training
done by others. Do we want to change the way in
which mental health is learned and taught about?
Do we need to? There will be an opportunity to
consider some blocks to change and levers which
may help to overcome them. Information will be
shared about some new resources the Mental
Health in Higher Education Project and a module
outline and learning materials based on the
British Psychological Society Report Recent
Advances in Understanding Mental Illness and
Psychotic Experiences. This will be an
interactive workshop. Participants will identify
a practical step they can take to overcome a
block or activate a lever in their own work/life.
Although the focus will be on the Higher
Education context, the workshop will be of
interest to others involved in learning and
teaching about mental health.
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Good Practice Guides

• User and carer involvement in learning and
  teaching about mental health
• The use of personal experience/ use of self in
  learning and teaching about mental health

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Case studies

• The psychology of delusions
• Difference discrimination in mental health
• Contrasting critical biomedical perspectives on
  mental health
• Teaching mental health from a critical psychology
  perspective
• Service user involvement in training a catalyst
  for collaboration

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Discussion group

• JISCmail discussion group
• www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/LTSN_MHHE.html

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The website
www.mhhe.ltsn.ac.uk
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Ways forward (1) Subject specific examples

• The mental health dimension in the new degree in
  social work
• Teaching the psychology of mental health
• Ensuring the effective teaching of mental health
  to non mental health branch nurses
• Teaching mental health to (vast numbers of!)
  pre-registration medical students

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Ways forward (2) national networking

• Development of the network of mental health
  educators
• linking on a regional basis with NIMHE regional
  development centres, WDCs and user trainer
  networks
• A more comprehensive mapping exercise

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Contact

• Jill Anderson
• Senior Project Development Officer
• jill.anderson_at_nottingham.ac.uk
• 0115 8467612
• Anne Cooke
• Subject Adviser (Psychology)
• ac32s_at_cant.ac.uk
• 01892 507631

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AIMS (2)

• To encourage
• Engagement How might I make use of these?
• Ownership How would I like to see them
  develop?