Hi Rebekah,
Folk.us does have a website ( not a very snappy address I
am afraid) on http://latis.ex.ac.uk/folk.us
and I have a publication Small Voices Big Noises on lay
involvement in research which we have a few copies left
and can send _ I'll post one off to you and if not
inundated with requests to others too...
I think that in the NHS it will be forward
looking managers, or clinicians who are really up to
speed on the modernisation agenda, who can most quickly see
the point of community psychology - ( eg see the DoH
report Learning from Bristol): putting patients at the
centre, patients as experts, shifting the balance of power,
emphasis on diversity and reducing health inequalities,
emphasis on communication and team work, emphasis on
partnership.and multi-professional work...it's all about
social power and social support. Seems important if we are
to promote community approaches within the NHS that we can
make clear links with how what we offer can help the NHS
solce the problems posed by the modernisation agenda...on
the other hand of course, as non-clinicians would point out
-clinical psychology is an expensive and rarified
profession....
Annie
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:04:09 +0000 Rebekah Pratt
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Annie,
>
> Thank you for your email. I work in a clinical psychology department as a
> community psychologist and am really interested in the work you are
> involved in. Is there a website or publications about the Folk.us work -
> I'd love to see some more about it.
>
> One of the things I have been thinking about is how to made an effective
> community psychology input in a clinical programme. I'd be really
> interested in people's experience about what one can offer as a community
> psychologist that clinicians can readily relate to ... or am I just being a
> bit of a hopeless optimist to think that offering a community psychology
> perspective can influence clinicians at all? Do others encounter a tension
> between the two perspectives, and if you how do you, or do you at all,
> succeed in linking the two approaches.
>
> Any thoughts out there on this?
>
> Rebekah
>
>
> At 12:05 PM 11/19/02 +0000, you wrote:
> >Dear all,
> >I have just joined the list so this is to introduce myself.
> >I teach on the Doctorate in Clinical and Community
> >Psychology at the University of Exeter, and have
> >responsibility for organising the trainees' placements - so
> >am keen to share ideas with others about promoting
> >community psychology practice within clinical psychology
> >training.
> >
> >My particular research/teaching interests are user
> >involvement in research and in professional training. I
> >hold a research programe grant (until March 04) called
> >Folk.us - the Forum for User and Carer Involvement in
> >Research, whose purpose is to try to shift the research
> >culture locally to make it more meaningfully
> >controlled/influenced by lay people. And I am interested
> >in promoting and developing ways in which service
> >users/carers can actively influence and contribute to
> >professional training.
> >
> >One of my current pre-occupations is dealing with
> >the paradox that in some ways, given the government's
> >modernisation agenda, the sort of doors we have been
> >pushing on for decades re empowerment and putting people at
> >the heart of
> >service provision have been suddenly flung open - but in a
> >context of increasing managerialism such that there isn't
> >time to think or breathe for endlessly working on processes
> >whereby our work is centrally monitored and controlled.
> >Another preoccupation is about how to promote
> >multi-professional teaching/ learning in a way that isn't
> >dominated by the vested interest of the professional groups
> >involved.
> >
> >Locally we have recently started a south west community
> >psychology network - a place where like minded people can
> >share ideas and nourish/cherish ourselves every couple of
> >months.
> >
> >Thanks for starting up the list; look forward to maybe
> >building new links and connections.
> >
> >Annie
> >
> >
> >
> >Annie Mitchell
> >Lecturer in Psychology,
> >Clinical Director, Doctorate in Clinical and Community Psychology,
> >
> >School of Psychology,
> >Washington Singer Building,
> >University of Exeter,
> >Exeter,
> >EX4 4QG
> >
> >Phone 01392 264621 or
> >Liz Mears, Programme Administrator 01392 403184
>
> Rebekah Pratt
> Sub-department of Clinical Health Psychology
> University College London
> Gower Street
> London WC1E 6BT
>
> Tel: 020 7679 1844
> Fax: 020 7916 1989
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Annie Mitchell
Lecturer in Psychology,
Clinical Director, Doctorate in Clinical and Community Psychology,
School of Psychology,
Washington Singer Building,
University of Exeter,
Exeter,
EX4 4QG
Phone 01392 264621 or
Liz Mears, Programme Administrator 01392 403184
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