On LinkedIn this week, I stumbled across a new, fascinating report just published by the World Health Organisation and United Nations entitled ‘Mental Health, Human Rights and Legislation: Guidance and Practice’ (2023).
In a new post on her blog ‘What Would Jess Say?’, Sunday Times Bestselling Author and Chartered Psychologist Dr. Jessica Taylor presents the new report and provides a detailed and intuitive overview, highlighting the key findings (2023). This led me to read the report itself, and I found it perfectly aligns with my Patchworks venture, helping to further demonstrate the need and gap in the market. Namely, the apparent shortcomings of the current biomedical model of our NHS and the pressure it faces, plus the need for more holistic, social, and trauma-informed approaches.
Source: https://whatwouldjesssay.substack.com/p/un-and-who-call-for-significant-shift?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Academic Support Session
On 17th October, I had my helpful Academic Support Session with Vivien Fox.
Upon showing her my ‘report plan’, I felt relieved and encouraged to hear that she felt it was a strong and promising plan. Vivien was very helpful with some practical challenges I was facing, relating to correctly presenting my primary research in the Harvard style and critically deciding how best to do this in each instance.
I was happy to receive some further documents as guidance from Vivien, including a UAL ‘Visual Referencing Guide’ by Liz Higgs and Lucy Painsar (no date), an internal UAL document on ‘referencing interviews and personal communications’ (no date) and a resource entitled ‘Using and Citing Illustrations in Essays’ by the Learning Resource Centre and Boston Architectural College (no date). These are most helpful and have helped to relieve anxieties by presenting correct methodologies.
Reference List:
Boston Architectural College (no date) Using and Citing Illustrations in Essays
Higgs, L. and Painsar L. (no date) Visual Referencing Guide. London: University of the Arts London
Taylor, J. (2023) UN and WHO call for ‘significant shift away from biomedical model of mental health. What Would Jess Say?. Available at: https://whatwouldjesssay.substack.com/p/un-and-who-call-for-significant-shift?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web. (Accessed: 14 October 2023).
University of the Arts London (no date) Interviews Reference. London: University of the Arts London