Thank you Mad_In_Ireland and Jennifer Hough for the opportunity to contribute to the work you’re doing. It was a pleasure to collaborate with Dr. Sarah Donnelly on this, I was very privileged to work with such an inspirational #SocialWorkLeader! 🙌🙌 #SWisHumanRights #MentalHealth https://madinireland.com/2023/07/human-rights-must-be-part-of-everyday-practice-in-mental-health-social-work/
Human rights must be part of everyday practice in mental health social work - Mad in Ireland

Social workers call on CORU to reinsert references to human rights into the Social Work Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics Approximately 1 in 4 people will seek support for mental health issues at some stage in their lives (Golighthley and Goemans, 2020). Often this may involve accessing help and support from a social worker, […]

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Myself and two colleagues just published this new #OpenAccess Mental health Protocol “Examining the existing knowledge base for enablers of family recovery in mental health: a protocol for a scoping review of national and international literature” https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/12/e066484 Might be of interest to some here 😀 #socialwork #mentalhealth #familyrecovery #SWisHumanRights #recovery @socialwork
Examining the existing knowledge base for enablers of family recovery in mental health: a protocol for a scoping review of national and international literature

Introduction Recovery-oriented services in mental health are becoming an accepted approach across much of the globe. While the development of recovery-oriented approaches has focused mainly on people accessing mental health services, families of those accessing services also need to be included under the discussions of mental health recovery within mental health service provision. It is important that service providers understand what support families require in order to facilitate their recovery journeys. To that end, this review will seek to ascertain what evidence exists on the enablers of family recovery from national and international literature. Method and analysis This proposed scoping review aims to investigate the family recovery enablers within a mental health context. A Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis compliant scoping review is proposed, based on Arksey and O’Malley’s framework. Search terms are stated and a variety of databases (CINAHL, JSTOR, Ovid SP, PsycINFO, PubMed, RCNi, Science Direct, Web of Science and Wiley Online Library) and repositories (Google, Google Scholar and ResearchGate) will be consulted to examine papers based on a predetermined inclusion/exclusion criteria. The search range is from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2022. Ethics and dissemination As this paper presents a protocol for a scoping review of the literature into family enablers in mental health, no ethical approval is required. The preprint protocol was added to OSF Registries on 29 October 2021 where it is freely available. The registry will be updated once this paper has been published. The resulting scoping review will be distributed through peer-reviewed publication in a high impact journal.

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Really looking forward to the upcoming Irish Association of Social Workers, Adult #MentalHealth sig conference. Nov 25th, Dublin City centre. Lots of #HumanRights and #Housing focused talks to be had! Link to book here: https://www.iasw.ie/events/440-there-s-no-place-like-home-swamh-annual-conference# #SWisHumanRights
There's No Place Like Home - SWAMH Annual Conference

Social Workers in Adult Mental Health will host their annual conference in Dublin on Friday, 25th November.   Conference Programme 09.30 - 09.55am: Registration, Morning Coffee 09.55 - 10.00am: Welcome 10.00 - 11.00am: Rory Hearne (including Q+A) 11.00 - 11.30am: Claire Feeney, Housin