Martin Webber
OCTOBER 21, 2015
I’m involved in several events over the next few months which provide opportunities for service users, carers, practitioners, students and researchers to engage with research relevant to mental health social work. Rather than posting multiple.
Blurt It Out
NOVEMBER 26, 2015
Depression and feeling overwhelmed go hand-in-hand. Depression in itself is overwhelming because it affects every aspect of your life. It causes us to question our own abilities, skills, relationships, and worth. Overwhelmedness is stifling and can stop us from taking any action at all. We fear failure, we fear rejection and we quite frankly, don’t always have the energy to get going.
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Martin Webber
OCTOBER 16, 2015
There is increasing recognition of the value of lived experience and the important contribution people with personal experience of mental health issues can make to mental health care. Peer workers already exist in a number.
Martin Webber
OCTOBER 10, 2015
The University of York are recruiting three staff to join the Department of Social Policy and Social Work to help deliver the Think Ahead programme. Think Ahead is a new graduate route into social work with.
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Martin Webber
AUGUST 30, 2015
Our research has found that health and social care practitioners can support people to improve the resourcefulness of their social networks. The multi-site pilot of the Connecting People Intervention found that when it was fully implemented it increases.
Martin Webber
AUGUST 27, 2015
In my recent blog for the Social Care Elf I reviewed a study from Sweden which explored the impact which user advisory councils make in mental health and substance use services. Lyn Romeo’s comments in.
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Martin Webber
MAY 23, 2015
Health and social care professionals can become overwhelmed by the quantity of research and other evidence available to us. It is simply not possible to keep up to date with all the research which could potentially.
Martin Webber
MAY 14, 2015
My latest blog on Social Care Elf is published today. It critiques a paper from the US on shared decision-making in mental health. To be honest, I was rather under-whelmed by its findings. You can.
Martin Webber
MARCH 11, 2015
Community Care have re-launched its campaign to Stand up for Social Work to raise the profile of social work in the run-up to the general election. There are many ways to get involved. If everyone.
Martin Webber
MARCH 7, 2015
The findings of the Community Health Network study were published this week by Health Services and Delivery Research. Led by Vanessa Pinfold of the McPin Foundation, this study investigated how social contacts, meaningful activities and places that.
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Martin Webber
MARCH 3, 2015
In my latest Social Care Elf blog I review a systematic review exploring how people with long-term conditions or disabilities use information about the quality of services to inform their decisions about care and support.
Martin Webber
MARCH 2, 2015
This week I’m really pleased to welcome David Ansari to the University of York. David is a collaborator of the International Centre for Mental Health Social Research (ICMHSR) from the University of Chicago and he’s.
Martin Webber
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
The International Centre for Mental Health Social Research is offering a PhD studentship on street triage to start in September 2015. With North Yorkshire Police and Tees, Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust we have.
Martin Webber
JANUARY 17, 2015
At the International Centre for Mental Health Social Research we have been successful in obtaining funding for two new studies starting in February 2015. Both studies are evaluations of innovative mental health services to help build the.
Martin Webber
JANUARY 10, 2015
Randomised controlled trials are rare in social work so I was pleased to review one for my second blog for the Social Care Elf this week. However, the study’s limitations mean that its findings must be.
Martin Webber
JANUARY 10, 2015
I’ve spent the last week in Cochin in the state of Kerala, India, with colleagues from the International Centre for Mental Health Social Research (ICMHSR). ICMHSR brings together researchers from the University of York with.
Martin Webber
NOVEMBER 5, 2015
My latest blog for the Social Care Elf today reviewed a Canadian study of social enterprises. The firms in the research employed people with mental health problems. Although the paper’s conclusions were broadly positive, I.
Martin Webber
SEPTEMBER 9, 2015
Family courts often make vital decisions regarding children and young people – including whether a child should be removed from their family or carer. As a result, they require high quality information to assist them in.
Martin Webber
AUGUST 28, 2015
Two new studies conducted by the International Centre for Mental Health Social Research have found that mental effectiveness training helps you to learn more about your mind and be more effective in your daily life. Your.
Martin Webber
JANUARY 5, 2015
Work-based routes to qualifying in social work are not new. Step Up to Social Work and Frontline provide intensive graduate training in working with children and families leading to a qualification in social work.
Martin Webber
JANUARY 1, 2015
Independent fostering agencies (IFAs) have played a key role in helping local authorities meet the increased demand for foster care placements since the death of Baby Peter. In addition to supplying more foster carers, they.
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