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Community Psychology: Thinking more, speaking more, doing more
Event Details
Time: March 11, 2016 all day
Location: The Studio, Birmingham
City/Town: Birmingham
Website or Map: http://www.kc-jones.co.uk/pqg…
Phone: 01332 224507
Event Type: one, day, conference
Organized By: BPS - Division of Clinical Psychology
Latest Activity: Mar 7, 2016
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Event Description
Join fellow pre and in-training peers, qualified clinicians and experts by experience at the 2016 DCP PQG Annual Conference. This event promises the chance to consider how critical and community approaches to psychology can be applied in interesting and novel ways. This conference aims to open up dialogues among future clinical psychologists and the public, to help shape creative and empowering interventions that go beyond routine practice and change conventional practices for something different and potentially better.
This conference is designed for pre-qualified members who are on a journey towards qualification during a time in which psychologists are beginning to have a greater presence and voice in the public domain, and are actively calling for social inequalities to be addressed as a priority, independent of their clinical roles.
What is critical and community psychology?
Critical and community psychology aims to explain distress in terms of social, political and societal contexts. It adopts a systems and macro level approach and questions more traditional approaches, with a focus on the individual within the community.
At our last sold-out conference (‘Rethinking Clinical Perspectives: Becoming the Questioning Psychologist’) delegates heard multiple perspectives on how and why you may wish to become a critical or questioning psychologist in the NHS. At this year’s conference delegates will have the opportunity to take these ideas forward and consider how to apply these in a community context. Delegates will be exposed to several examples of community approaches from a wide range of settings. Whilst many approaches originate from collaborations between professions, several workshops will demonstrate the therapeutic effectiveness of services developed by experts-by-experience, often in response to critiques of routine service provisions.
Who is the event for?
The day is suited for individuals in pre-training roles (AP, RA, support worker etc.) and those currently in-training. The day is also well suited for service-users and experts-by-experience who wish to engage with future clinical psychologists and discover other community developments from around the country. Individuals recently qualified may also find the day stimulating, along with established and practising psychologists.
*No prior knowledge or awareness of community psychology or critical approaches is required to benefit from this event as it is aimed at those on the path to training and qualifying*
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