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 2011/12 Programme

Applied Social Sciences hosts an exciting programme of events throughout the academic year which are mostly free to attend and with lively and informed discussion afterwards. All are welcome, but we especially encourage students to attend.

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MASTERCLASSES:  Mental health, Race and Culture

Wednesdays: 19th October; 2nd, 16th and 30th November; 14th December 2011

Flyer: Masterclasses

5.30-7PM
LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, GRADUATE CENTRE GCG08, 166-220 HOLLOWAY ROAD N7 8DB OPPOSITE HOLLOWAY ROAD TUBE see Graduate Centre Map

The over-representation of black people among those diagnosed as ‘schizophrenic’ and among people who are sectioned and given compulsory treatment with drugs is well known.  This is happening in a context where mental health services in the UK, particularly the waypsychiatry is practised, are not satisfying a lot of people, especially those identified as ‘black and minority ethnic’ (BME). In fact, many find the services oppressive, damaging to their personalities and often racist and insensitive to cultural difference. The issues have attracted much attention but little if any progress has been made in tackling them, although there is some understanding of how and why they have arisen and why these problems persist.

These Masterclasses are intended to give participants the opportunity to: -discuss the cultural diversity of what mental health and illness means
-consider what is known about how ‘other cultures’ have constructed very different
systems to help and support people with personal problems

-look at what training is needed to improve the systems we have here and how people
who use services can work together with providers; and

-discuss how changes can be achieved.

Participants may thereby reflect on how they may contribute towards lessening theseproblems.

Who are the Masterclasses for?
-Service users-Practitioners -Students-Teachers & lecturers-Policymakers

All Masterclasses are free of charge but registration ESSENTIAL: email marcy.oreilly@londonmet.ac.uk