Dear Steve,
Thanks; will send.
Annie
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:20:30 -0000 Steve McKenna
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Annie,
>
> I too would also really like a copy of the publication. I am very
> interested in user led research. My address is below.
>
> Please, if you get the chance, have a look at my website, it list some of
> the things that I do.
>
> http://www.psynet.net/steve.mckenna
>
> Warm regards
>
> Steve
>
> Steve McKenna
> Community Psychology Group
> Department of Psychology
> University of Stirling
> Stirling, FK9 4LA
> Scotland
> (+44) (0)1786 467683 Direct Line
> (+44) (0)1786 467641 Fax
>
> http://www.psynet.net/steve.mckenna
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: annie mitchell [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 21 November 2002 10:58 am
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] new member: Annie Mitchell
>
>
> 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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