Mind The Trap

@RudlandWood Hi Natale! I wondered if you had an email contact? We are working in partnership with local communities in the UK who are loving the recipes of life approach, and it would be great to touch base and share some of the work

@tixelofficial please check DMs urgent

@Misterjayj21 still selling if interested

If anyone has any information regarding grant applications please get in touch with @julie_a_b_ & @Dr_SJRennalls. They have worked so hard to collect really rich data on top of their training, participation in the @MinoritiesGroup and BME slack forum. Let’s value this work:

Looking for people to interview on their experiences of living in #socialhousing in #London. I hope to investigate the links between #housing, #regeneration and #wellbeing @LondonTenants @housingmh

@Sectioned_ Also mybodybackproject.com/services-for-w… specialist clinics, but only based in London & Glasgow

Some folks with issues around trauma or abuse (past or present) can find smear tests triggering, but sexual health clinics should be set up to accommodate this. Take a friend, make a visit first, speak to staff beforehand - whatever you need to do. #cervicalscreening

With the current campaign to encourage women to get a #CervicalScreening, my recommendation is definitely get one done, but go to a sexual health clinic not your GP: clinics do this all the time rather than every now & then & proficiency matters when you're having a smear test.

@Whitnexxi Keep speaking out like this! As long as your energy allows you ✨

4. This has highlighted how important it is to have a diverse workforce. I don't think its fair that some therapist make the client to scribble their language in an English booklet then get surprised when the patient disengages.

Today I begun translating behavioural activation in shona and it made me realise how difficult it is for people that do not speak English to access mental health support. Here are some of things I have learnt so far .......

@fura410 @MinoritiesGroup Thank u Vasiliki!!

One of the wonderful Race&Culture organisers of @MinoritiesGroup Jennifer Nicholas will be in the panel! Not to be missed! So gutted I cannot be there but will be following the hashtag! #FacingOurRacismISPS

@julie_a_b_ Thank u Jules!

The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaxhes to Psychosis UK conference: Racism exists. #FacingOurRacismISPS Opening by @cassiereflects & Jess Pons

Colin King questions/comments on: Is it unconscious bias or biased consciousness? What does the Mental Health Act legalise? Survival Vs Selling Out. Reconsider Racialised scripts and cultures that uphold practices. We NEED new models. #FacingOurRacismISPS

.@AkikoMHart on her lived experience of British-ness & mixed heritage-ness resonated emotionally with me. #FacingOurRacismISPS

Audience responses: 1. What does white allyship look like? Do your research! Connect. 2. We need to create spaces to have dialogues & challenge each other. > "Step up without taking up space". #FacingOurRacismISPS

Thank you @RaiWaddingham for sharing your ongoing reflections about gender, whiteness and privilege navigating the mental health system. #FacingOurRacismISPS

Very honest reflections from @AlisonF101 on Survivor Research & White Privilege #FacingOurRacismISPS

"Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry is White knowledge. We need universal knowledge." @SumanFernando commenting on changes in the curriculum of training programmes to facilitate change. #FacingOurRacismISPS

Institutional racism has become an umbrella term for lots of other 'indirect' racisms. @SumanFernando #FacingOurRacismISPS

"Racism is beyond othering. It is dehumanising." @SumanFernando #FacingOurRacismISPS

The DCP-London BME Mentoring Scheme is currently recruiting qualified clinical psychologists (of any ethnicity) in the London area to mentor a Black or Asian Aspiring Psychologist. If you are interested in becoming a mentor, please email me: k.alcock@ucl.ac.uk