MQ Mental Health

APRIL 21, 2024

Not only are there a number of runners raising money for vital mental health research (Which you can too in the future ) but also we’re excited because running is an excellent way to relieve stress and anxiety. Research has shown that people living with severe mental illness often have poorer physical health than the general population.

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MQ Mental Health

MAY 10, 2024

Movement can have a positive impact on mental wellness whether that be through running, some more gentle activity or even through fundraising for charities such as MQ Mental Health Research. In this story, Esther shares her experience of why movement has been so valuable to her mental health. Do You Feel Safe In Your Body?

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MARCH 29, 2024

He researches technology and child welfare and enjoys integrating emerging technologies in the classroom and as a field instructor. This is why we wrote an article to offer guidance and considerations for the social work field educator with a student placed in their agency. Todd Sage , Ph.D., Melanie Sage , Ph.D.,

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Read about why we’re launching this campaign , and the five steps you can take to support it. Research how to influence TV scripts to improve the portrayal of social workers. Think about taking part in high profile documentary (fly-on-the-wall) programmes.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

That’s why reverse mentoring is very important to me. We don’t know it all, and it’s the confidence to see a manager be able to say to a practitioner (especially newly- ualified social workers) ‘tell me about that theory or that piece of research’. When they do the safety demonstration and talk about the air masks. What do they say?

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MQ Mental Health

MAY 8, 2024

Life can be challenging enough at the best of times, so why is it good for us to set ourselves even more challenging goals? MQ's staff member Juliette Burton explains why setting yourself a challenge can be good for you. And just as research proves, running helps my mental health massively. Movement sometimes can be challenging.

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My Brains Not Broken

JUNE 30, 2023

Today’s post is an interview with Tiffany Whitlow, who is the co-founder of biotechnology research company Acclinate, and its associated community brand NOWINCLUDED – the online health community focused on empowering the Black community to make better-informed health decisions. As a young mom, my son was diagnosed with asthma.

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MQ Mental Health

MAY 2, 2024

This} decision means key questions will go unanswered, questions like: Why was there no public mental health plan? Why were the psychiatric hospitals emptied at the same time as community care was shut down? There are many more questions and stories to be told.”

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Save the Social Worker

APRIL 28, 2024

Take Heart is the story of how I moved from being suicidal to being a social worker, and offers a perspective of why you should stay in social work, even though the going might be difficult. After a while, every social worker starts to question: Why am I still doing this job? I stuffed myself with food to fill the emptiness within me.

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Community Care

JANUARY 10, 2023

Authorities across England cut provision to people needing care and support and carers, for example, by closing day centres or reducing respite services, without making use of the so-called Care Act easements, found the research by the University of Manchester. Related articles. “She went to a day centre, you know, for five hours.

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My Brains Not Broken

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I’m hoping to do more research on the topic, but it’s always fascinated me about society’s collective focus on one all-purpose question: Why? Knowing why helps in a lot of cases, but sometimes people just need help. There were so many questions I had, but I couldn’t give any answers.

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Given the lack of research into social media, and the internet in general, how do we know that the true impact is of the internet on our mental health? This is why MQ are facilitating a report, currently underway, that looks into both the positive and negative effects of the internet in general on mental health.

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Further research is needed to understand, prevent and treat eating disorders which is why the work of MQ is so vital. The causes of eating disorders are not yet fully understood , which is why research is so vital. MQ’s researchers are doing great work to progress our knowledge and your support helps them do this.

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

To combat this, children and adults need to be taught why mental health conditions develop, research suggests. Equal Voices Another reason why children’s voices matter, particularly for MQ, is that research into children and young people’s perspectives regarding their own lived experiences is scarce.

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My Brains Not Broken

OCTOBER 11, 2022

” Here’s why that matters, and why it’s important that mental health is a global priority. After doing some research, I found the following statistics from WHO : Mental health conditions now cause 1 in 5 years lived with disability. As it turns out, this year is the 30th anniversary of World Mental Health Day.

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Community Care

MARCH 25, 2022

The regulator has also sought to understand why its referral rate was higher than the HCPC’s. It will shortly publish the results of research based on investigating the experience of members of the public making complaints about social workers. ” . ”

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Community Care

AUGUST 16, 2023

Researching therapy options We undertook research into psychological therapy and discovered that the primary therapeutic approaches (mentalisation-based therapy, dialectical behaviour therapy, trauma-informed cognitive behavioural therapy, cognitive analytic therapy, etc) produced similar outcomes (Wampold & Imel, 2015, Johnson and Boyle, 2018).

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 13, 2023

MQ Mental Health Research is today announcing an investment of £2.2 million into seven new research projects, through the prestigious MQ Fellowships programme. These new MQ Fellows will be conducting research into how serious mental illnesses and physical illnesses can combine to cause premature death.

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My Brains Not Broken

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Whether it’s not being able to find the right word or not finding any words at all, I’m constantly pressuring myself to articulate what I’m experiencing and explain why that is. I was experiencing a ton of nervous energy and anxiety over the things I was doing, and I didn’t know why.

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Save the Social Worker

OCTOBER 9, 2022

To help you , if you’re a social worker, better understand why you’re burning out, and how you can help yourself. Why burnout happens. Following the stress on social services that has come about as a result of COVID-19, there has been more research sharing about the emotional toll this has taken on social workers.

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 7, 2024

of researchers are women, which is why at MQ we are incredibly proud to say we fund male and female researchers equally. In the run up to International Women’s Day (8th of March) we celebrate those women who make up 50% of our researchers, and their pioneering work. Internationally, 33.3%

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Community Care

MARCH 12, 2024

Lack of BIAs and training opportunities As well as a lack of money, research commissioned by Age UK in early 2023 for the report found that a lack of staffing – particularly of best interests assessors (BIAs) – was undermining councils’ abilities. “It seems a waste of resource.”

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MQ Mental Health

MAY 1, 2024

The DATAMIND Hub maximises data's value by safely and securely uniting data from many sources, including health records, schools and administrative data, charity data, research trials, genomics, longitudinal studies and cohort data. Living With Mental Illness: Why Is Data Science Relevant?

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 13, 2024

John and Susan Wilkes, long term supporters of MQ Mental Health Research, remember their son Nick Wilkes who died by suicide ten years ago in 2014. John and Susan’s support helps fund vital research to prevent others losing their lives to suicide in the future. In our third campaign to support MQ, we’ve raised £2,316 so far.

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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

I then managed a programme of work exploring behavioural, social, and psychological support strategies to help people living with dementia live independently at home before moving to the Social Biobehavioural Research Group as a Senior Research Fellow in April 2020 at the start of the pandemic. What is your area of study ?

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 4, 2024

Women are making history in research, some of them working with MQ. One such woman is Marisa Marraccini , one of the researchers selected to be a US Fellow for MQ in 2022. The opportunity will mean researchers in the USA who are selected will receive not only financial support but also practical support from the MQ team.

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inSocialWork

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Lateef will tell us what he is learning and why he does this research and recommend implications for practice based on his studies. Lateef’s research focuses on Afrocentric approaches to inform social work practices and interventions for youth of African descent.

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Famcare

MARCH 16, 2023

Dr. Scheyett's research, which she conducts as a professor at The University of Georgia, has focused on the needs of vulnerable populations. In this Ted Talk, she gives a succinct 7-minute summary of why social workers are superhumans. Anna Scheyett, PhD , is the speaker, and this is her TED Talk about social workers.

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 4, 2024

Find out why creativity is good for mental health in our article by clicking this link. And find our why comedy is good for mental health by following this link. Book Some Time To Read Books have themselves been written about the science behind why reading is good for mental health. The post Is Reading Good For Mental Health?

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 11, 2024

Eleni Rodis, managing director of research for the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) Research Division at the UConn School of Social Work (SSW), and Wendy Ulaszek, associate research professor at the SSW, recently conducted a study of Connecticut college students and gambling.

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Community Care

APRIL 14, 2022

TLAP said research had found social workers, while committed to personalisation, felt conflicted and struggled to find the right intervention when the individual did not want full choice and control. Is the personalisation of social care stalling – and why are more working-age people in care homes?

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Martin Webber

JUNE 22, 2020

Renée Aleong discusses her PhD research and explains why Black mental health matters.

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My Brains Not Broken

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

That’s why I decided to do a little research to learn about self-stigma, how it shows up in our lives and how we can deal with it. It’s not that it’s a foreign concept to me, but I don’t think I’m very comfortable using the term or understanding it well when it is used. What is Self-Stigma?

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Given the lack of research into social media, and the internet in general, how do we know that the true impact is of the internet on our mental health? This is why MQ are facilitating a report, currently underway, that looks into both the positive and negative effects of the internet in general on mental health.

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Social Work With Adults

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Our research shows disabled people want to have more conversations about physical activity with health and social care professionals, including social workers. Why this group specifically? Research also found social workers were interested in the benefits of physical activity for themselves. Because they are trusted.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Researchers have also observed that Black youth between 5 to 12 years old are twice as likely to die by suicide than their white peers. In the past, research on youth suicide focused mainly on white youth, leaving holes in our understanding of mental health and suicidality among Black youth. between 2018 to 2021. prior to 2000.

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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Lead by experienced mental health epidemiologists, the workshop was one in a series aimed at supporting early career researchers who are just starting out in Data science and mental health research. Saira, thank you so much for chatting with MQ Mental Health Research. Why did you decide to attend?

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