Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Max Bell
Course Director
Max is Course Director for the BA Working with Children, Young People and Families and BSc Social Care, Justice and Recovery Programmes.
Max also contributes to a range undergraduate and postgraduate Programmes within the School of Health, including Social Work, Youth Work, Counselling and Mental Health, Dual Diagnosis and Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Max has worked in the field of Mental Health for over 15 years and is qualified as a Social Worker and Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP). She is still in practice and undertakes crisis mental health work, including assessments under the Mental Health Act (1983). Max’s research interests include Street Triage, decision making in mental health and the role of the AMHP. Max joined Leeds Beckett in 2016 and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Current Teaching
- Social Care, Justice and Recovery
- Working with Children, Young People and Families
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Ask Me About
- Mental health
- Social work
Selected Outputs
-
Bell M; Hill D (2023) Responding to mental health crisis at a street level: mental health practitioners as street level bureaucrats. European Social Work Research, pp. 1-14.
