Spring 2009 (dates to be confirmed)
Venue: Tavistock Centre, London
In the NHS and social care settings, the most deprived and vulnerable clients come from a variety of social, cultural and racial backgrounds, and communities and health professionals need to take this diversity into account in order to deliver the best services to all. Families and communities play important roles in partnership with health professionals and health professionals need to be able to appreciate and develop this collaboration. Similarly, in times of social change and global population movement, health professionals are required to be able to engage with and understand patients from backgrounds very different from their own and about which they have very little experience and understanding. Clinicians therefore need to develop skill capacities both for clinical cross-cultural communication and for cross-cultural community liaison and collaboration.
This is a new course drawing on good practice examples of work developed over recent years by mental health practitioners from a range of ethnic backgrounds and theoretical orientations, who will share their experience about engaging successfully with different African, Middle Eastern, East European and Asian communities, including refugees and asylum seekers.
New dates for this course will be advertised shortly. If you are interested in participating and/or receiving further details, please contact:
Vicky Harrison
020 8938 2548
events@tavi-port.org
