Psychotherapy Section Annual Conference and AGM 2022
26-27 September 2022
03 August 2022
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The Psychotherapy Section Annual Conference will take place 26–27 September, 10am–4pm.
The AGM is scheduled for 1pm on 27 September.
Both events will be held at the BPS London Office, 30–34 Tabernacle Street, London EC2A 4UE.
The theme for this year is 'The Distress of Invisible Populations – Your Chance to Speak'.
Keynote speakers:
- Dr Vivienne Crowley, MA, MSc, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Supervisor & Training Therapist
Workshop speakers & facilitators:
- Juan Du, DCoP diversity prize winner
- Professor Ho Chung Law, Conference Chair, Associate Fellow of British Psychological Society & Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine
According to the National Institute for Mental Health in England, Chinese and other minorities from the eastern culture, including recent immigrants, tend not to request support from available psychological services and have been described as an "invisible population".
There are many barriers for marginalised population to access NHS psychological services, including therapists offering services that do not meet the clients' social, cultural and linguistic needs, clients' language barriers and the need for psychological therapies to be culturally appropriate has been recognised.
This conference aims to address these issues by providing a therapeutic safe space for ethnic communities and psychotherapists to celebrate diversity, share experiences and facilitate mutual learning.