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In this one-day event, Liliana Morales and Angie McLaughlin continue to explore inequalities in Mental Health in terms of Social Graces. They will be challenging current practices, and encouraging reflection on how we position ourselves as Mental Health Professionals, in order to meet the needs of our diverse communities in the therapeutic and supervisory realm.
Multiple international studies have demonstrated that determinants adversely affect an individual’s mental health. In Ireland, My World Survey 2 reports lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual or pansexual young adults were more likely to report higher levels of depression and anxiety, engage in deliberate self-harm, have made a suicide attempt and report being bullied or unfairly treated than their straight counterparts. Young people with disabilities had a higher rate of suicide (Dooley, B, O’Connor, C, Fitzgerald, A & O’Reilly, A, 2019). In the UK, Children from the poorest 20% of households are four times more likely to have serious mental health conditions by the age of 11 than those in the wealthiest 20% (Morrison Gutman et al 2017). African-Caribean Families have higher rates of suicide, PTSD and are more likely to be diagnosed with Schizophrenia (Khan et al 2017).
There is also a lack of equality in availability and help-seeking behaviour in these groups. People from minority groups have reported that lack of competency in clinicians around diversity has been a barrier to both seeking help and benefiting from help that has been given (Carpenter, A (2019) Let’s Talk-Mental Health Experiences of Migrant Women).
While knowledge about the detrimental effects of discrimination is not new, movements such as Blacks Lives Matter and #MeToo have brought issues of equity, diversity and inclusivity into the forefront. Many of the clients that we do come into contact with experience discrimination in their everyday lives. It is no longer ethical to be passively non-discriminatory clinicians. In order to support our clients and adequately meet their needs, we must move towards being proactively non-discriminatory in our practice.
Day 2 Topics:
● Working with interpreters
● Exploring Theoretical perspectives
● The Danger of the Single Story
● Multicultural supervision
Presenter Information:
Liliana Morales is a migrant woman, and Counselling Psychologist, originally from Colombia. She is a Latin American mestiza, and Colombian-Irish. Liliana has 20 years’ experience working therapeutically with asylum seekers and refugees in Ireland in the public service sector, and she is now working in the voluntary sector managing therapy services for survivors of torture in Spirasi. She’s a member of PSI and was a co-founder of the Culture and Ethnic Diversity SIG, no longer in existence. Along with Angie McLaughlin, she is co-founder of PARC Training. She provides supervision to staff at a voluntary organisation who works with vulnerable populations and forced migrants. Liliana has a passion for culturally inclusive practice, challenging systems, politics, social justice issues and diversity within psychology/mental health and the health space in general. She lives with her tri-cultural family in Dublin.
Angie McLaughlin is a cis gender heterosexual woman (she/her). She was brought up working class in Scotland, with an Irish father and Scottish mother, and married into an African American family. She is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist and Family Therapist with 30 years’ experience and a passion for exploring Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity in both her professional and personal life. She worked in community mental health in San Francisco for several years with marginalised groups such as those at risk for homelessness, ethnic minorities, the LGBTI+ community and people diagnosed with HIV. This allowed her to witness first-hand the direct relationship between poor mental health and discrimination. Throughout her career she has brought an EDI lens to her work with adults, youth, couples, families and groups. She co-formed the EDI subcommittee in the Family Therapy Association of Ireland and sits on the FTAI Executive Board. She currently works in youth mental health as Regional Clinical Manager for Jigsaw.
McLaughlin and Morales combined their many years of experience as clinicians and supervisors, to form PARC Training in order to offer training, consultation and supervision to mental health professionals on developing proactive non-discriminatory practices. They are involved in delivering training for doctoral psychology trainees (Clinical, Counselling and Educational in TCD and UCD), psychologists and other mental health and health care professionals on cultural competence/cultural humility/migrants’ mental health. They have spoken at multiple conferences as well as in service training to mental health organisations. They continue their lifelong strive to have humility when working with people who are different from them.
What is included:
Morning tea/coffee and biscuits
Light lunch in the meeting room
Speaker slides
TICKET PRICES
PSI Members: €90
Non-PSI Members: €125
PSI Students: €50
DcOP (Division of Counselling Psychology) Members: €90
For the categories below, please email divisions@psychologicalsociety.ie for a discount code:
PSI Graduate Members on low wage: €50
Psychology students (with valid ID attached to your email): €50