This is a 90-minute work shop that will invite participants to consider the barriers to the inclusion of racialised identities in therapy. In our discussion we will examine findings from research studies that document the complexities and challenges that therapists experience in the process of therapy and impact on the client – therapist relationship.
The workshop context will discuss how micro-aggressions may be perpetuated in the therapeutic frame making connections with the significance of history racialised experiences and racial trauma in the presentations of racial identities in the therapeutic relationship.
Course Content
Presenter
Mark Williams is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work with Leeds Beckett University since 2004. He has extensive experience in mental health social work practice and worked in both statutory and third sector mental health provision, prior to joining the university, including having the privilege to be involved in the development and launch of the first Assertive Outreach provision in Leeds (in 2000), and earlier the development of a multicultural mental health community resource (in 1998).
As a British African Caribbean man Mark has a particular interest in the lived experiences of Black and Global Majority (BGM) communities living in the UK. His interests has led him to become involved in the development and delivery of mental health services targeted towards the needs of BGM groups which has now extended to concerns about the diversity and inclusion of BGM individuals in higher education.
