{"id":1524,"date":"2014-09-08T10:25:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T10:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/socialcareworkforce\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2022-08-02T15:53:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T15:53:59","slug":"the-challenges-of-mental-health-for-social-science-and-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/socialcareworkforce\/2014\/09\/08\/the-challenges-of-mental-health-for-social-science-and-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"The challenges of mental health for social science and policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"title\"><strong>Guntars Ermansons<\/strong><em>, student in the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine, introduces a report on a workshop held earlier this summer. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/sspp\/policy-institute\/scwru\/pubs\/2014\/conf\/19jun14-workshop-report.pdf\">See the full report of the workshop<\/a>. <\/em>(309 words)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On 19 June 2014, a workshop on \u201cThe Challenges of Mental Health for Social Science and Policy\u201d was held at King\u2019s College London, Waterloo Campus. Supported by the King\u2019s Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Centre\u2019s Science &amp; Society initiative and organized by the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine, in collaboration with the Institute of Psychiatry and Social Care Workforce Research Unit, the workshop hosted a number of distinguished speakers and experts on mental health and involved postgraduate and early career researchers.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After a welcome and introduction by Prof. John Abraham, the workshop consisted of three sections, psychiatry, social policy and social science. Opening the psychiatry session, Prof. Derek Bolton gave a talk \u201cAre mental disorders brain disorders? Tensions in current theory and method.\u201d and Dr. Mary DeSilva from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine presented \u201cAn Evidence Based Response to Critiques of Global Mental Health\u201d. In the social policy session Dr. Martin Stevens presented on \u201cEthical questions and processes \u2013 what helps to get a study approved.\u201d and Prof. Jill Manthorpe gave a talk entitled \u201cComing of Age? The curious case of adult and older mental health research.\u201d In the closing session of social science, Prof. Nikolas Rose gave a talk on \u201cWhat is Diagnosis For?\u201d and Dr. Dominique Behague on \u201cResearching the political and material life of diagnostic unravelling in Southern Brazilian psychiatry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The key theme of the workshop\u2014the challenges of mental health\u2014allowed for the accommodation of a wide spectrum of perspectives including psychiatry, psychology, global mental health, anthropology, gerontology and policy research. Participants had a chance to reflect on the contemporary significance, meaning and problematics of mental health as a field of research and clinical practice, while also evaluating the role that social science and policy is and can be playing in the advancement of knowledge and improvement of practice in mental health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guntars Ermansons, student in the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine, introduces a report on a workshop held earlier this summer. See the full report of the workshop. (309 words) On 19 June 2014, a workshop on \u201cThe Challenges &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/socialcareworkforce\/2014\/09\/08\/the-challenges-of-mental-health-for-social-science-and-policy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,79,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health","category-policy","category-research-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/socialcareworkforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/socialcareworkforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/socialcareworkforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/socialcareworkforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/socialcareworkforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/socialcareworkforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2199,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/socialcareworkforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions\/2199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/socialcareworkforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/socialcareworkforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/socialcareworkforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}