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EVENTS (announce your UK community psychology and related events here)
De-Medicalising Misery II
Tuesday, 16th December 2008, Cruciform Building, Gower Street, London WC1
The
University of East London’s School of Psychology, the Critical
Psychiatry Network, the Hearing Voices Network (England) and University
College London are delighted to present the second one-day conference
in the De-Medicalising Misery series.
Conference Flyer
Confirmed speakers: Mary Boyle; Jacqui Dillon; Duncan Double; Suman Fernando; Irving Kirsch; Craig Newnes; Ewen Speed.
Places: are limited. For further information please contact Prof. Mark Rapley on 07951 908409 or via m.rapley[AT]uel.ac.uk
Costs:
Unwaged £25; Students/trainees £45; BPS Members £100;
Waged £140. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
Nottingham
‘Psychosis’ in Context
One Day Conference Tuesday 25th November 2008
Nottingham
Please display the attached flyer in your departments
Confirmed Speakers: Joanna Moncrieff, Guy Holmes, Dave Harper, Bob Diamond, John Cromby and a variety of Community Projects
The conference will highlight the importance of social context and personal history in thinking about experiences of distress. It will involve academics and clinicians sharing critical perspectives on the concept of psychosis and clinical practice. Alongside this, it will attempt to incorporate experiences and projects from people who use mental health services.
Delegate rates: £45 (including lunch). There are a number of free places available for people who have experience of using services, carers and unwaged.
To book a place or enquiries about booking, please contact: Jenny Poole, Team Administrator, 0115 969 1300 ext 10522 (jenny.poole@nottshc.nhs.uk)
For further information about the conference, please contact Steven Coles (steven.coles@nottshc.nhs.uk) or Sarah Longbotham (sarah.longbotham@nottshc.nhs.uk)
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Community Psychology in the UK
Community Psychology Network (UK) we carry information on events on this site also you can join approx 100 people on the email discussion list for UK Community Psychology sign up via this link .
Position statements and media releases
The Birmingham Manifesto: Community Psychology in a Global Context. (April 2007)
Press Release from The UK Community Psychology Network on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
For
immediate release
16 October 2007
Changing politicians' minds about changing our minds?
"Cognitive
Behaviour Therapy and associated approaches are comprehensively
problematic. Primary prevention is the only way to substantially
reduce socially, economically and materially caused distress. To
be effective primary prevention must involve social rather than
cognitive change. Reducing income inequality in our society would
be one of the most effective ways to reduce psychological distress and
ill health”, says the UK Community Psychology Network.
Read the full press release.
"As
community and critical psychologists we believe that psychologists have
a fundamental responsibility to join with others to end both poverty
and societal inequality independent of absolute wealth, which we
believe are personally, collectively and socially destructive.
We
believe mainstream psychology to be complicit with the prevailing
psychologically toxic neo-liberal economic order and believe psychology
has allowed itself to be used to hide systemic effects of poverty and
inequality and instead position poverty as a consequence of individual
psychological dysfunction.
We call for the radical
transformation of psychology so that it has the resources necessary to
expose the personally, collectively and socially destructive effects of
poverty and inequality and the proactive deployment, with allies, of
this transformed psychology to end poverty and societal inequality and
the exploitation, exclusion, oppression, distress and illness which
result from them."
History project - work on this project about the development of community psychology in Britain is complete. It is part of a project for an international book. Here is the draft of the chapter on the UK - comments welcome.
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 | The Community and Organisational Psychology research group aims to undertake innovative, collaborative and participative work of social relevance. We undertake research and consultancy which informs policy, enhances the effectiveness of organisations and enhances the lives of vulnerable people by asking meaningful questions, encouraging the participation of those involved in the research and disseminating the findings to all those with a stake in the research. In much of our work we use an action research orientation and remain involved in projects over extended periods of time.......more |  |
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Other
UK
London
Psychological
Helping and Support Research Group
at University College, London - page set up by Chris Barker and Nancy
Pistrang
London
School of Economics: MSc in Health, Community and
Development, based at the LSE Social Psychology
Institute. Catherine
Campbell explains the programme:
Community
Psychology in UK Higher Education Web Page maintained by
Paul
Duckett, Manchester Metro University - growing collection of resources.
West Midlands Community and Critical Psychology Special Interest Group
Critical Community Psychology at the University of Stirling - no current web page, but here is address for David Fryer:Proceedings of the 1999 UK Community Psychology Conference, Manchester
(Proceedings of the previous conference can be found in Clinical Psychology Forum No 122, December 1998)
Community
Psychology elsewhere
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