#mhTV episode 122 - Reclaiming MHN Education: What It Should & Could Look Like and How To Get There

Welcome to episode 122 [originally broadcast on Wednesday 26 April 2023] of #mhTV​​​​​​​​. This week Vanessa Gilmartin and Nicky Lambert spoke with guests Dan Warrender & Stephen Williams about Reclaiming Mental Health Nurse Education: What It Should and Could Look Like and How To Get There. DW - Dan Warrender wanted to be a singer/songwriter, but has the voice of a warthog and has been more successful as a mental health nurse and lecturer. After 3 years working in an acute inpatient unit, he stumbled into academia, and has taught mental health nursing for the last 9 years. He has engaged in clinical practice throughout that time, and continues to provide 1-1 mentalization based therapy both privately and through an honorary contract with the NHS. He started his PhD the day Donald Trump was elected and still isn’t finished, but he’s getting there, exploring experiences of crisis intervention for people diagnosed with ‘borderline personality disorder’. Several publications have covered topics such as crisis intervention, risk, ‘personality disorder’, mentalization, human rights, alcohol use, spirituality and mental health in film. He has been very vocal raising concerns about the direction of mental health nurse education, and in a keynote in 2022 described mental health nursing as becoming a ghost profession, with inadequate mental health content for future mental health nurses. SW - Steve Williams is currently an Assistant Professor in Mental Health Nursing at the University of Bradford where he has led and contributed to the delivery of Mental Health Nurse Education Pre-Registration and Post-Registration Programmes for the past 13 years. A registered Mental Health Nurse since 2001 Steve has been a community mental health nurse specialist and clinical nurse specialist in the NHS before venturing into Academic and research roles. As a clinician he specialised in delivering psychological therapies for people with "severe mental health conditions" drawing upon his prior education in Psychology and his advanc