Race, Culture, and Identity
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Race, Culture, and Identity
Early Relationships and Mental Health Series: Session Three
With Dr. Yvonne Osafo & Anna Godfrey
Dr. Yvonne Osafo and Anna Godfrey will present the third talk in our series on early relationships and mental health designed for a wide range of professionals, including parent-infant psychotherapists, child and adolescent psychotherapists, adult and couple psychotherapists, as well as those working with parents and infants in other settings.
This seminar invites participants to engage critically with the significant influence of unconscious racial bias in their clinical work through the lens of parent infant psychotherapy. By examining how race, culture, and identity impact therapeutic relationships and outcomes, participants will gain a more profound awareness of the implicit biases that can shape their clinical interventions with families from various backgrounds. Concentrating on the field of parent-infant psychotherapy, the seminar will engage with the connections between race, trauma, and early relational dynamics, and the centrality of rupture and repair between parent infant as well as therapist. Attendees will be encouraged to reflect on their own biases and consider how these may impact their capacity to connect with the experiences of parents and children from marginalised communities.
Dr Yvonne Osafo is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, working with a wide range of clients at every stage of life, from pregnancy to adulthood: babies, children & adolescents, adults, couples and families and elderly clients. She is a respected Parent-Infant Psychotherapist with experience in different cultural settings. Anna Godfrey adopts a community-based approach that addresses mental health needs while recognising the barriers minority families often face. Her emerging research on intergenerational racialised trauma seeks to cultivate a culturally strengths-based approach, thereby enhancing contributions to the practice of infant-parent psychotherapy.
If you are interested in attending the entire Early Relationships and Mental Health Series please visit the webpage Early Relationships and Mental Health Series-Courses (trtogether.com)
This series is developed in collaboration with the National Centre for Supervision of Parent-Infant Relationships (NCSPIR). NCSPIR offers clinical supervision to practitioners and their supervisors working with parents and infants as part of the UK government’s Family Hubs and Start for Life program, which aims to improve early years services for families with children aged 0 to 2.
For full information see https://trtogether.com
For information about Tavistock Relationships visit https://tavistockrelationships.org
For information about NCSPIR visit https://ncspir.org.uk
