CALENDAR OF EVENTS
A curated listing of international critical psychology conferences and events. Email us at [email protected] if you’d like to suggest an event.
The Mental Health Act Review and Institutional Racism
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June 1, 2018
Suman Fernando, former consultant psychiatrist in the NHS and a member of ROTA, is the author of the Institutional Racism in Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology: Race Matters in Mental Health, launched in January 2018. The book explores the deep roots of racism in psychiatry and psychology, to examine how institutional racism affects mental health services.
A conference on June 1st at University of East London campus hosted by UEL (University of East London) and ROTA (Race on the Agenda) will showcase ways of counteracting institutional racism in mental health services by promoting culture-change in professional practice and safeguarding human rights of people who use mental health services or are caught up in the mental health system.
The day will feature talks, workshops / panels for professionals and users / survivors of the mental health system on ways of counteracting institutional racism in mental health services.
Topics will include possible changes in legislation (including the Mental Health Act) and the models used in psychiatry and psychology, so that services would face up to the problems arising from institutional racism, such as deprivation of liberty(through excessive sectioning), over-use of psychotropic drugs for control of racialised groups and unethical use of psychological and psychiatric categorisation.
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