I would agree with David that a conference (perhaps a day or a day and a half)
with a focus on introducing clinical (and counselling) psychology trainees to
community psychology might be worth considering. Louise Goodbody here at
Salomons/Canterbury University has recently expanded our community psychology
teaching and there is strong trainee interest in this new development.
A conference might also include recent graduates who completed dissertation
work in community psychology as well as those who are integrating community
psychology approaches in their practices within the NHS and in other
organisations.
Paul
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>What is the UK annual conference for? I came back from Newcastle
>thinking: that some people almost completely new to community psychology
>had gone looking for an introduction to what community psychology was
>all about, wondering whether it would be of interest and use to them;
>that some people involved in community activism and related community
>fields had gone looking for opportunities to connect, experience and
>express solidarity, learn and offer advice; that some (proportionately
>many) clinical psychology trainees had gone wanting to learn how they
>could develop / complement / extend their clinical psychology to make it
>a more effective community-clinical psychology; that others had gone
>already deeply involved in community psychology looking for
>opportunities to engage in sustained sophisticated debate around key
>points in clinical community psychology without having to explain all
>the background assumptions and values each time they made a point; that
>others had gone who had long suffered from trying to do community
>psychology in ideologically, methodologically and professionally very
>hostile environments looking for safe spaces to experience support and
>solidarity; and . . . I could continue almost indefinitely.
>
>I am not convinced - and this is not a criticism of individual
>conference organisers (me included of course) - that we design our
>conferences strategically to attend to the diversity of expectations and
>even less convinced that we set and pursue priorities: in seeking to
>accommodate all interests I fear we satisfy few interests and that some
>objectives are mutually contradictory.
>
>I think a case could be made for a conference purposely designed to
>introduce newcomers to community psychology.This would need to establish
>basic assumptions and values and give sufficient time for them to be
>debated and problemetised.
>
>I think an equally good case could be made for a conference purposely
>designed for clinical psychology trainees to facilitate the
>consideration of the relevance to clinical psychology of community
>psychology and the challenges the latter poses for the former. This
>would need to address controversial issues such as whether clinical
>psychology is fundamentally problematic from a critical community
>psychology perspective.
>
>I think an equally good case could be made for a conference purposely
>designed for providing opportunities for those grappling alone with
>dilemmas in community psychology and who share various assumptions and
>values and wish to find collective opportunities for sustained critical
>debate.
>
>I think an equally good case could be made for a conference purposely
>designed to provide support and solidarity with the purpose of reviving
>people who have been damaged by trying to do critical community
>psychology in profoundly hostile environments and trying to find ways to
>sustain them in the future
>
>Personally I think the greatest priority at the moment regarding a UK
>conference is to provide a supportive forum for sustained debate with
>the purpose of developing a culturally safe distinct critical community
>psychology, which is more effective in tackling psychologically the
>destructive contexts in which many of our fellow citizens and we
>ourselves are located, alert to the possibility that the clinical
>psychologisation of social issues is part of the problem.
>
>David
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