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Item Open Access An evaluation of a DVD trigger based assessment of communication and care delivery skills.(Elsevier, 2009) Brown, Brian J.; Crawford, Paul; Aubeeluck, Aimee; Cotrel-Gibbons, Liz; Porock, Davina; Baker, CharleyThis article describes the implementation and evaluation of a novel form of assessment of communication skills and knowledge for nursing students in a multi-campus UK Midlands university. The assessment took the form of a recorded scenario which was presented on DVD and a series of assessment questions inviting students to consider communicative aspects of the events depicted. This 'DVD trigger' assessment yielded theoretically informed, practically relevant answers from the students, over 80% of whom passed. Student reactions to the assessment were elicited via a specially designed questionnaire which indicated broad approval for the assessment and yielded a high degree of internal reliability, and suggested that attitudes to the assessment could be grouped into three major factors. The first factor comprised items relating to the practical aspects of the examination, the second to teaching, learning resources and exam support and the final factor repres! ented the perceived relationship between the examination and the skills involved in care delivery and communication in professional practice. This highlights the value of evaluating students' responses to assessment in developing new forms of examination and in harmonising assessments with learning resources, teaching and appropriate preparation for exams. Moreover, we argue that the face validity of assessments is important in ensuring students' engagement with the learning tasks and assessment activities and may contribute to the broader validity of the assessment enterprise in predicting and enhancing skills in subsequent professional practice.Item Open Access Guest editorial: Madness and literature(Emerald Insight, 2011) Crawford, Paul; Baker, Charley; Brown, Brian J.In August 2010, the Institute of Mental Health hosted the 1st International Health Humanities Conference: Madness & Literature, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK. The conference was attended by a range of individuals who are prominent in the fields of medicine and literature, such as Elaine Showalter and Kay Redfield Jamison, and formed part of the Health Humanities initiative at the University of Nottingham. Health Humanities is a novel approach that is rapidly developing beyond the Medical Humanities to become a much broader and more inclusive movement, aimed at investigating how theory and practice from a variety of arts and humanities disciplines can inform and advance individual and institutional notions of health and well-being, not least mental health (Crawford et al., 2010). This movement aims for greater inclusion of non-medical professionals, carers, service users and a wider self-caring public. It was in this spirit that the conference was held and its associated web site, www.madnessandliterature.org, continues to attract a diverse membership of over 330 academic, clinical and lay members worldwide, offering short reviews of literature dealing with mental health themes or topics.Item Embargo Health Humanities(Palgrave, 2015) Crawford, Paul; Brown, Brian J.; Baker, Charley; Tischler, Victoria; Abrams, B.Health Humanities: Beyond the medical humanities There is a growing need for a new kind of debate at the intersection of the humanities and health care. In the recent past the field of medical humanities has grown rapidly, but it is timely and appropriate to address the increasing and broadening demand from other professions to become involved, and to accommodate new sectors of the healthcare workforce. There are important cohorts of personnel in health care, a whole army of ancillary workers, as well as informal carers and patients themselves who have been largely left out of the medical humanities so far. Moreover, as different disciplines come to value the contribution made by the arts and humanities and new opportunities emerge in health for the development and inclusion of new approaches in the humanities, it is important that this expansion and debate is given voice and new fora are created for these new developments. The so-called medical humanities were the first on the scene in this field, and have developed strongly in the Anglophone world. But the time has now come for a more inclusive and international capture of material as other disciplines and different nations develop their own distinctive practice and theory. The expansion of the field therefore merits a new publication aiming to give a flavour of the full range of health care activities and the newly discovered relationships between these and the humanities themselves.Item Open Access Health humanities: the future of medical humanities?(Pier Professional, 2010-10-30) Crawford, Paul; Brown, Brian J.; Tischler, Victoria; Baker, CharleyThis discussion paper reviews and critiques literature related to the evolution of the medical humanities as an academic discipline and its contribution to healthcare provision. We argue that despite considerable advances in the field of medical humanities, needs have been identified for a more inclusive, outward-facing and applied discipline. These needs can be met in the form of what we have called the Health Humanities, which both embrace interdisciplinarity and engage with the contributions of those marginalised from the medical humanities - for example, allied health professionals, nurses, patients and carers. It is argued that there is a need for new thinking to develop the discipline of health humanities, to develop, provide and share research, expertise, training and education.Item Open Access Mad Lit.: Introduction to a Special Issue of the Journal of Medical Humanities(Springer Science and Business Media, 2011) Crawford, Paul; Baker, Charley; Brown, Brian J.This special issue emerges as a result of papers delivered at the 1st International Health Humanities Conference: Madness & Literature, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK, and held at the Institute of Mental Health at the University of Nottingham, August 6–8, 2010. The conference, which included keynotes from Elaine Showalter (The Female Malady) and Kay Redfield Jamison (Touched By Fire), was hosted as part of a range of initiatives based at the University of Nottingham which we call ‘Health Humanities’—an evolution of Medical Humanities towards greater inclusion of and engagement with allied health professionals including nurses, occupational therapists and those practicing the expressive therapies, as well as carers, service-users and a wider self- caring public. Our aim is to address the growing and broadening demand from other professions to become involved and to include new sectors of the healthcare workforce, as well as informal carers who have often been left out of the medical humanities so far.Item Metadata only Madness in post 1945 British and American fiction.(Palgrave Macmillan, 2010-10-20) Baker, Charley; Crawford, Paul; Brown, Brian J.; Lipsedge, Maurice; Carter, RonThis is one of the first books to comprehensively explore representations of madness in postwar British and American Fiction. The book looks at representations of madness in a range of texts by postwar writers (such as Ken Kesey, Marge Piercy, Patrick McGrath, Leslie Marmon Silko, William Golding, Patrick Gale, William Burroughs and J.G. Ballard, to name a few), and explores the ways in which these representations help to shape public perceptions and how they portray highly unique experiences of mental disorder. The five authors come from diverse backgrounds – literary studies, social psychology, medical psychiatry and psychiatric nursing – and as such the book's perspectives are informed through several discourses, making it a unique co-authored text in the discipline of Health Humanities. This book is of relevance to both those with interests in literary studies, and is a vital read for psychiatric clinicians and professionals who are interested in how literature can inform and enhance clinical practices. Those who have been affected by mental health issues will also find this book both relevant and empathic to such human experiences.Item Metadata only Struggling for subversion: Service user movements and limits to the impact of client led accountability(Gylphi, Canterbury, 2012-09) Brown, Brian J.; Baker, Sally; Baker, CharleySince the invention of the service user as a medico-political category, service user involvement has been advocated by policymakers and researchers as a way of empowering clients and ensuring service responsiveness and accountability in mental health care in the UK. However, our experience of involvement in this field over the past three decades suggests that these initiatives may have limited emancipatory impact. Service providers may be adept at ensuring that only certain kinds of service user voices are legitimated and heard, and more critical transgressive voices are sidelined. Moreover, service user involvement has implications which are seldom appreciated, such as the opportunities for patronage, co-optation of tame users and nepotism within the service user organisations themselves. The experiences we relate here suggest that as presently constituted, service user involvement and empowerment does not necessarily make users powerful. Indeed, without a careful reconsideration of the present arrangements for service user representation, it may well consolidate notions of passivity, medical models of human distress and deflect the liberatory potential of transgression. The implicit and sometimes explicit stipulations of what it means to be a ‘good patient’ attenuate the potential for meaningful change and obscure the exercise of power within the mental health system.Item Metadata only Suicide, Self-Harm and Survival Strategies in Contemporary Heavy Metal Music: A Cultural and Literary Analysis(Springer, 2016) Baker, Charley; Brown, Brian J.