A conversation with Nina Browne, a clinical and community psychologist who co-founded Owls (https://www.owls.org.uk), a social enterprise that works with communities to develop new solutions to social issues. She also brings these ideas into the NHS with excluded young people in the criminal justice system.  She has also researched clinical psychology's role in influencing policy and is passionate about implementing these ideas within clinical psychology to bring about change in practice and training.

Some links and references from Nina to allow you to dig deeper into the topics she discussed: 

Richard Bentall (2003). Madness explained: Psychosis and human nature. UK.

Chris Barker - I wish I had mentioned him as he's one of the people who has inspired and supported my ideas and work in this field. He was a founding member of Comm Psych in the UK and pioneered ideas on peer support and non-professional helping.

Sue Holland is an inspiration: http://communitypsychologyuk.ning.com/events/sue-holland-free-talk-community-psychology-and-social-action#:~:text=Sue%20Holland%20carried%20out%20seminal,and%20eventually%20collective%20social%20action.

Seminal paper: From private symptoms to public action https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0959353591011007

Society for Community Research and Action - for a global perspective: https://www.scra27.org/what-we-do/what-community-psychology/

PSC (outsider approaches to policy change) http://www.psychchange.org

Practice to Policy is the paper that the foundations of this are built on and include a guide for DClinPsy courses: Browne, N., Zlotowitz, S., Alcock, K., & Barker, C. (2020). Practice to policy: Clinical psychologists’ experiences of macrolevel work. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice.  https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-10238-001

Here is me trying to explain the same ideas with Jazz!  https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-32/june-2019/dont-fear-jazz

Problem Solving Booths:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/magazine-40657446

https://communitypsychologyuk.ning.com/video/problem-solving-booths

Camerados is a social movement who I worked with - they are on twitter and an example of a collaboration https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-2018/february/creating-space-mutual-support

Surviving Clinical Psychology: Navigating Personal, Professional and Political Selves on the Journey to Qualification, Ch 7 is about bringing social justice values into practice. 

Listen to dialogue with the wonderful Sally Zlotowitz as she talks about her work with MAC-UK charity and Nesta, her activism role and her personal and professional identities. Sally describes how she brings community psychology values into her practice with examples from her work at MAC-UK with marginalised young people; the barriers resulting in distrust of statutory bodies and the redesign of services through co-production. She also shares examples of communities and groups that Nesta UK has supported to build social movements to challenge health inequalities. A helpful link: https://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/healthmovers-tackling-inequalities/. Sally has now left Nesta, taking up a new post as CEO of Art Against Knives - Congrats Sally!

Sally discusses the influence of her sabbatical in South Africa, the issue of community wealth building and co-operatives and incorporating collective wellbeing into practice.  She also considers the role of psychology post COVID-19 and speaks about Degrowth Economy - she recommends the work of @carolynkagan and @MarkBurton to learn more about this. Some interesting work, linked to this, can be found here: https://steadystatemanchester.net/about/

Sally contributes currently to BPS Official Community Resilience and Community Action Working Group, thinking about community level responses and intersectional, decolonised ways of supporting people. Links to work being done by the group here: https://bit.ly/38NSXFk and https://bit.ly/3bNKnIo. Details for their upcoming webinar is here: https://www.bps.org.uk/events/developing-community-resilience-and-social-justice-practices-young-people-covid-19-era.

Sally ends by talking about embedding community psychology values into practice, highlighting importance of working in partnership with others, support of like-minded people, needing to be a little disruptive and creating opportunities to consider services in a strategic way.

Trailer for episode 1 of a brand new podcast Discovering Community Psychology.  A conversation with Angela Byrne, a clinical psychologist working in the NHS who has worked within the Black & Minority Ethnic access service and with the marginalised religious and cultural communities of East London.  Angela shares her journey with community psychology ideas, values and practice and her reflections on the Covid-19 pandemic. 

A taster for episode 3, a conversation with Nina Browne, a clinical and community psychologist who co-founded Owls (https://www.owls.org.uk), a social enterprise that works with communities to develop new solutions to social issues. She also brings these ideas into the NHS with excluded young people in the criminal justice system.  She has also researched clinical psychology's role in influencing policy and is passionate about implementing these ideas within clinical psychology to bring about change in practice and training.

A taster for episode 4, a conversation with Bea Herbert, founder and director of States of Mind, an organisation creating a better future for mental health by involving young people in the process of change. 

Trailer for Episode 2. A conversation with Sally Zlotowitz, a community and clinical psychologist, co-founder of Psychologists for Social Change.