Episode 3 - Nina Browne

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.