The Open University is holding a launch on 28 October 2009 for our new collaborative and co-published edited collection Mental Health Still Matters (Palgrave). Editors and contributors will be talking about their perspective on the importance of this collection and the changes that have taken place in understandings and practice in mental health since the first and linked collection, the best-selling Mental Health Matters, was published in 1996. The initial development and selection work for this current edition was supported by The Open University (OU) Practice-based Professional Learning (PBPL) Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL).

Mental Health Still Matters is a cross-disciplinary and innovative collection of readings reflecting the diversity of views on how best to understand, explain and support people with mental distress. It provides a strong challenge to traditional understandings ofr mental illness, and aims to illuminate future thinking, policy and practice.
The collection is a set book for two OU courses  here which together lead to a Certificate in Mental Health Studies. In four parts, containing over 50 re-published as well as newly commissioned readings, it includes :

• An exploration of current mental health debates and theory

• A review of inequality in mental health, and social inclusion as a policy goal

• Accounts and perspectives from mental health service users

• And challenges for mental health practitioners.

Speakers include Dr Jill Reynolds, OU academic and lead editor of Mental Health Still Matters, Dr Jan Wallcraft, freelance consultant and researcher and co-editor, and Professor Phil Thomas, Professor of Philosophy, Diversity and Mental Health, University of Central Lancashire and contributor to the collection.

The editorial team look forward to seeing you on 28th October and discussing Mental Health Still Matters and developments in mental health over an informal lunch. The event begins at 11.30 am in …. [and finishes at 14.30].

Copies of Mental Health Still Matters will be available at the event at a discounted price.

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