Friday 21 November 2008
Fee: £150
Venue: Tavistock Centre, London
This conference will focus on issues of addressing race and equity in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. There has been a sense, both from government and other organisations, that the Delivering Race Equality programme developed in adult psychiatry can be delivered to CAMHS professionals without much change. This conference will seek to extend our thinking about the special issues which face professionals working with children and young people and the role of race, equity and ethnicity in this clinical work. It will bring together practitioners who have developed innovative clinical work integrating race and equity.
The conference will explore how culture, race and equity relate to professional models and theoretical frameworks. It will discuss case material in ways which are respectful of culture, race and ethnicity. It will explore how practitioners can be self-reflexive in cross-cultural work and it will take account of cultural transference and cross-cultural reflection.
The conference will be of interest to anyone working with children and young people and with their families. It will also be of interest to those wanting to explore interdisciplinary work in the context of a multicultural society.
Guest speakers:
Celia J. Falicov, PhD (AFTA President, 1999 - 2001), is a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California-San Diego. She is also has a private practice. She serves as Advisory Editor to several journals and is a Fellow of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and the American Orthopsychiatric Association. Her publications include two edited books: Family Transitions (Guilford) and Cultural Perspectives in Family Therapy (Aspen). She is the author of Latino Families in Therapy: A Guide to Multicultural Practice (Guilford Press).
Begum Maitra, MRCPsych, is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in multicultural inner London (Hammersmith and Hackney), and is currently employed by the East London and The City Mental Health NHS Trust.
Her research and academic interests include - cultural explanatory models for common childhood problems; culture, parenting and child development - with a special focus on neglect and abuse. She has been a consultant to research projects of national relevance on the subject of minority ethnic children and families in care proceedings, and to the FOCUS Project (Royal College of Psychiatrists Research Unit) on mental health services for minority ethnic children and families. She lectures widely on these areas and has published several papers on assessment across cultures, and on working with minority ethnic families. Dr Maitra is closely involved with training - of medical students, trainees in psychiatry and allied mental health disciplines, and is a member of the Overseas Working Party on Child Psychiatry Training of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
