Is Graduate Social Work Education Promoting a Critical Approach to Mental Health Practice?

Is Graduate Social Work Education Promoting a Critical Approach to Mental Health Practice?

Council on Social Work Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 383 HISTORICALLY, the field of social work has been committed to work toward a “just society” (Reamer, 1993). This means that social work has often rejected mainstream institutional views and has offered or supported alternative viewpoints furthering its goal of a just society. In addition, evidence-based practice suggests that profess...

Mental Health and Social Work

Promoting Mental Health and Preventing Mental Illness in General Practice

This paper calls for the routine integration of mental health promotion and prevention into UK General Practice in order to reduce the burden of mental and physical disorders and the ensuing pressure on General Practice. The proposals & the resulting document (https://ethicscharity.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/rcgp_keymsg_150925_v5.pdf) arise from an expert 'Think Tank' convened by the London Jo...

Building a Sustainable Approach to Mental Health Work in Schools

Sustainability is a major challenge to mental health work in schools, and many initiatives started by wellmeaning individuals and agencies fade quickly. This paper outlines some key actions that can be taken to ensure that mental health work is sustained, as well as introduced, in schools. These actions include demonstrating that mental health work meets educational goals such as learning and t...

L.C.C. Handbook of Mental Health Social Work