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The Collaborating Centre supports networks of individuals and groups with interests relevant to the Centre’s aims.

Networks are self-organising communities of interest that bring together stakeholders with diverse experiences and skills. VBP Collaborating Centre Network members include (but are not limited to) Centre Partners


Why a Network?

Collaborating Centre networks offer

      • A strong web presence: each network has its own home page and related postings hosted by the VBP website and supported by the website manager (see links below)

      • Priority access to Centre resources: for example Advanced Studies Seminar funding

      • Communication: the Centre hosts email, Twitter and Facebook list for communication between network members

      • Engagement with the wider VBP community: network members receive announcements circulated through the VBP website listings
     

    Starting a network

    If you would like to start a network or want more information please Contact Us

    Current Networks

    The below links will take you to the home pages of the following networks:

    Network NameDescription
    Aesthetics in Mental Health Network (AiMH)Aesthetics in Mental Health (AiMH) is a lively trans-disciplinary network that seeks to extend and enhance aesthetic responsiveness in the context of healthcare and thus to improve mental health and wellbeing among both service users and service providers
    Brazilian VBP NetworkThe aim of this network is to bring together stakeholders (from any country) interested in applying values-based practice in the context of the challenges presented by the large and culturally diverse population of Brazil. The network will have a particular concern with vulnerable populations. Values-based practice offers an appropriate instrument for bringing together cultural diversity in Brazil, and therefore for improving the effectiveness and global impact of mental health in the country.
    Co-Production Addictive Behaviour Research Network (CAB)The Co-production Addictive Behaviour Research Network strives to promote and explore practice in co-production research in the fields of substance use and addictive behaviour.
    Digital Health and Innovation NetworkThe Digital Health and Innovation Network was launched in February 2022. It was born out of the intersection of Values-Based Practice (VBP), which balances the values of stakeholders to achieve patient-centered clinical decisions, and Need-Led Innovation (VBP), which balances the values of stakeholders to create user centered innovations.
    Educational Voice Hearing NetworkThe Network provides a space for learning and aims to improve the understanding between mental health professionals and people who hear voices, so as to promote person-centred practices. This is in keeping with the aims of the Collaborating Centre which aims to promote excellent clinical care.
    Integrating Values into Evidence-Based Medicine (INVITE)The main objective is to create a platform for discussing practical steps to recognize and integrate consciously, values into the practice of Evidence Based Medicine. A second objective is to pilot of some the ideas that arise from our discussion.
    Law and Ethics of Anorexia Nervosa – Values in Practice Network (LEAN ViP)The network aims to bring together stakeholders, including influential experts from different disciplines such as law, eating disorders, palliative care, general practice, ethics, philosophy, together with experts by experience, including patients and relatives. It will provide a unique forum that facilitates high-level dialogue and enables working together towards providing informed, values-based expert advocacy in both clinical and legal practice. The ultimate aim will be to make a material improvement to the lives of sufferers with eating disorders and their loved ones.
    Norms of Action and Belief in Practice Network (NABP)Through collaborative and participatory research, The Network aims to address implicit conflicts between norms of belief (like those underpinning evidence-based guidelines) and norms of action (like those underpinning shared decision-making). Our guiding thought is that these conflicts often remain unacknowledged, giving rise to such recurring challenges as ignoring guidelines as irrelevant to practice (where norms of action trump norms of belief) or forsaking practice-based judgment for formal compliance (where, by contrast, norms of belief override norms of action). In close dialogue with cutting-edge work in social philosophy and with scholarship grounded in lived experience, our Network develops new strategies for identifying and reconciling such conflicts in practice while also contributing to wider theoretical debates on the ethics of knowledge and inquiry, epistemic justice and what counts as success in co-creation.
    Phenomenology and Mental Health Network (PMH)Phenomenology is a rigorous philosophical method of studying the structures of consciousness and how these structures underlie and affect human experience. By undergoing a clinical turn, 20th century phenomenology became more pragmatic in seeking to understand the variety of lived experiences of patients suffering from mental disorders, often undermining a sense of a strict boundary between the normal and the pathological. Basic phenomenological themes, such as temporality, embodiment, intentionality, understanding, and intersubjectivity, thereby gained a new diagnostic and therapeutic significance. The tradition of phenomenological psychopathology became an important actor on the scene of 20th century psychiatry. The PMH network strives to promote the best of this tradition
    Philosophy of Birth NetworkThrough the lived experiences of women, illuminated by the insights from the vibrant new field of the philosophy of birth, the Philosophy of Birth Network aims to explore how we understand the practices that bring us into being, challenging widely-held assumptions about rationality and agency in the delivery suite. The network will launch during 2023
    Practical Wisdom NetworkPhronesis/Practical Wisdom – broadly understood as excellence in ethical decision making – is a metacognitive faculty which enables, amongst other functions, wise deliberation and choice regarding the right course of emotion and action.

    Whilst the PWN embraces phronesis along neo-Aristotelian lines it also integrates broader interpretations of wisdom. It seeks to bridge theory and practice and explore ways to cultivate and develop wise professionals, leaders and organisations, serving a common good.
    Values-Based Commissioning and Service Development in Child and Adolescent Mental Health: a Systematic ReviewThe Values Based Practice CAMHS system Network aims to bring together stakeholders, including influential experts from different disciplines such as education, social care, charities, NGOs, general practice, ethics, philosophy, together with experts by experience, including patients and relatives.
    Understanding Personality Disorders NetworkThe Understanding Personality Disorders Network is a multi and interdisciplinary network that seeks to promote an investigation of personality disorders and to inform clinical practice by the outcomes achieved. A special emphasis is laid on the integration of empirical, conceptual, theoretical, and normative issues within broader schemes in particular that of Value-based Practice (VBP).
    Values-based Interprofessional Education and Practice NetworkThe aim of the Network is to explore and develop the two-way relationship between IPE (Interprofessional Education and Practice) and VBP (Values-based Practice). IPE enables two or more professions to learn with, from and about each other to improve collaborative practice and quality of care (CAIPE, 2002).
    Values-based Practice In Paramedic PracticeThe aim of this Network is to explore and develop values-based practice within paramedic practice, and specifically how this may be taught within paramedic education.
    Values-based Practice in Public Mental Health NetworkPublic mental health is a rapidly expanding area of interdisciplinary research, linking academics, charitable foundations, NGOs and policy makers. At its core, public mental health aims to improve overall population mental health, and – relatedly – to reduce the prevalence of mental illness amongst individuals.
    Values-based Theory NetworkThe Values-Based Theory Network (VBP Theory Network) strives to promote research excellence and interdisciplinary collaboration in the fields of analytic and continental philosophy of medicine and mental health research.
    Whiteness and Race Equality NetworkWork on race equality has traditionally focused on the lived experience of being black in terms of mental health and diagnosis. But for co-production to stand any chance of success understanding has to be two-way, especially in relation to coproduction: we need to understand the lived experience of being white alongside and in equal partnership with the lived experience of being black. This is the aim of The Race Equality and Whiteness Network in the Collaborating Centre for Values-based Practice.

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