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Crisis Team Staff at Northwick Park Hospital · ”I enjoyed the seminar and found it very educational”
· “well delivered, very interesting, and wouldn’t it be great to be able to assess religions … and work with psychiatry to benefit our clients”,
· “Very interesting and helpful in terms of looking at the religious and cultural population of the borough”
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Medicine Beyond Materialism |
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Cultural, religious and spiritual models of health |
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Training Seminars |
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These seminars are informed by: the Department of Health’s report on Religion and Belief (2009); the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Spirituality and Psychiatry SIG (2009); research on culture and exclusion by the World Health Organisation; the Delivering Race Equality programme for tackling discrimination (2009); and Good Access in Practice, report of BME Health Forum (2010). |
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In 2007, pilot programmes were run in London and Switzerland. In spring 2008, an 8-week course ran for undergraduate students at Brighton & Sussex Medical School. The CETL (Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning) at St Bartholomew’s Hospital London commissioned two, 4-week courses in autumn 2008. Both medical schools ran courses in 2009/10, and at Brighton in 2011. Seminars were also run at University of Northampton, CSAPP in 2010 & 2011. During 2009/10, elements of the course were offered at 28 seminars, with Mind in Harrow’s People Like Us mental health promotion programme, funded by NHS Harrow. Seminars were run in religious premises (mosques, churches and temples), community halls, and hospitals (Northwick Park and Cygnet). |