UEL Psychology Seminar Series - Professor Kamaldeep Bhui - 12th November 2014

We are so pleased to have Professor Kamaldeep Bhui for our next Psychology Seminar Series.

UEL Psychology Seminar Series
Date: 12th November 2014
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Arthur Edwards Building Room 2.06

Professor Kamaldeep Bhui
Professor of Cultural Psychiatry & Epidemiology
Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University of London & East London Foundation Trust

Title:
Interventions to Improve Therapeutic Communications: a systematic review of interventions for black and minority ethnic patients and clinicians in specialist mental health services.

Abstract:
This paper considers the evidence on interventions that improve therapeutic communications and identifies interventions that seem most effective; patient preferences are taken into account as is the quality of each of the studies that included trials, observational studies, case series and case studies. Intervention components that maximise engagement, empowerment, and better outcomes are considered, especially cultural consultation and ethnographic methods. The implications for clinical practice, care services, public mental health and commissioning will be presented.

Biography:
Professor Bhui works as a clinical academic psychiatrist in London and is the Centre Lead for Psychiatry. His research and practice interests on health include social exclusion, work characteristics, cultural psychiatry, epidemiology, health services research and psychological therapies. He qualified in Medicine at the United Medical Schools of Guy's & St Thomas, and subsequently has worked at the Maudsley, Institute of Psychiatry, Guy's King's, St Thomas' Medical Schools.

His current research projects include studies of residential mobility and the effects on mental health of Somali refugees, explanatory models of mental disorder, work characteristics and ethnicity. He is Director at the Cultural Consultation Service at Barts (Culturalconsultation.org) and Director of MSc Psychological Therapies and MSc Transcultural Mental Healthcare at QMUL and MSc in Mental Health and Law. He is also the co-founder of Careif (www.careif.org), an international mental health charity based in London that promotes work for young people and their health through culture, sport and arts. Professor Bhui is President elect of WACP & Congress President for the Third World Congress of Cultural Psychiatry 2012 (www.wacp2012.org). He is editor of British Journal of Psychiatry, International Journal of Culture and Mental Health, Ethnicity and Health, and on the editorial board of Transcultural Psychiatry.

Session Chair: Professor Rachel Tribe