Professor of Social Care interested in mental health
Queen's University Belfast
Joined August 2012
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Join us for the launch of the first study on the Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in Northern Ireland. Click the link to register 👇
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Policy Press | Critical theory for social work online resources … Wonderful, wonderful resource … wells done @JoeWhelan82 policy.bristoluniversitypres…
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🔊UPDATE ON RCRP
1/ Pleased to report that since I wrote to the Health & Justice Committees about my concerns about Right Care Right Person I've had v-helpful (& reassuring) meetings with PSNI, & the leads in Dept Health & Dept Justice.
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Please read MHC @profsiobhanon thread below about NI suicide statistics and more about the crisis services needed to prevent suffering.
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16/ I also know that many of the clinicians & the people who work in suicide prevention policy have themselves significant lived experience of suicide & distress. We are all deeply affected by the deaths, & we continue to work hard to ensure that we get this right.
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Five reasons why the Mental Health Bill won't get autistic people and people with learning disabilities out of psychiatric detention thesmallplaces.wordpress.com…
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A recent UN Human Rights Council report on extreme poverty and human rights, found that policies to drive economic growth are taking a devastating toll on the mental health of people in poverty.
Read the full report👇
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Children in deprived areas 4 times more likely to have mental health problems by the age of 11.
Poverty➡️ mental illness
No ringfenced funding for the Child Poverty Strategy.
Rts increased frm 20% to 24% during last Child Poverty Strategy.
Shocking.
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Cross-border protection and capacity: mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.o…
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Hi NI comrades . Please complete or repost Jessica's PhD online survey on drug use and LGBTQ community @niada @GWShorter @QUBCommunities1 @QUBDarn @AMLTaylor66 @AmandaShields86 @GavinDavidson70 @daniellemackle_
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Mental capacity law, sexual relationships and intimacy - in conversation with Beverley Clough and Laura Pritchard-Jones: mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.o…
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Please share this as widely as possible from CYPSP, a central online platform for child and youth mental health advice and information in Northern Ireland.
Help make early intervention a priority for children & young people-the earlier mental health support is available the more effective it will be. Share cypsp.hscni.net/youth-wellne… a central online platform for lots of early help advice & info to support our Children & Young People👍
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The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Right seeks to balance the right to life and the right to autonomy: mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.o…
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‘It will be a monumental failure if Executive cannot find money to address poor mental health’
MHC @profsiobhanon details that more needs to be done to transform our historically under funded mental health services.
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Very interesting - and stark - detail in this @FactCheckNI piece on deprivation. Very clear, whether you’re in Derry, West Belfast, Portadown or any point in between, we are being let down and failed across almost every domain of consideration. More here: factcheckni.org/articles/is-…
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The police and the Mental Capacity Act 2005 – in conversation with Michael Brown: mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.o…
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“Expand addiction services and social support, and link these with the mental health system. Increase the mental health budget to 10 per cent of the health budget. Revise the Mental Health Bill 2024 so that it facilitates access to care, rather than further complicating it.”
Mental illness and social exclusion irishtimes.com/opinion/lette…
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⚠️Paramilitarism & poor mental health are inextricably linked in NI.
Today's report highlights the devastating consequences of this trauma on the mental health of our population.
Young people living in areas of elevated paramilitary activity have an 8 times higher risk of PTSD.
Today we launch our new paper - ‘The connection between paramilitarism and mental health in NI’ which reveals the devastating impact of paramilitarism on mental health.
Read the full report at:
endingtheharm.com/research-p…
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MHC @profsiobhanon speaking to @UTVNews yesterday during their MH special.
🟡 Concerns around new PSNI policy Right Care Right Person
🟡 Urgent funding needed for MH Strategy to improve services in NI