HILARY TERM - SESSION 2 - "Disaster"

This session, on the topic of “Disaster”, will be the second of our three-part series for Hilary Term - The Unknown: "Precipitating Factors" - in which we we aim to promote discussion and reflection on topics related to the consequences of unexpected changes and events in the lives of patients (and clinicians), issues of stress/adaptation/resilience, and working with diagnostic and and therapeutic uncertainty.

Our special guest for this session - Dr Mina Fazel - is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford and a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist in the Department of Children’s Psychological Medicine at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She has been working for almost two decades on mental health issues concerning refugee populations.

BACKGROUND

The University Engagement Programme at the Ashmolean Museum

The University Engagement Programme (UEP) at the Ashmolean Museum, funded by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation, was established in 2012 to explore ways of using the museum's collections in the teaching of the university, beyond its core disciplines of Art History, Classics and Archaeology. The Programme works with the Medical School and the NHS in undergraduate, postgraduate and professional training in cardiology, neurology and psychiatry.

The Psychiatry UEP

Over the past years, groups of psychiatric consultants, registrars, core trainees, and medical students have visited the Ashmolean to consider questions raised by the depiction of themes such as emotions, ageing, gender, dreams and visions, and more, in paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture from the Ashmolean collection. Sessions, which last two hours, are held in the museum's galleries and study room, and are led by art historian and curator Dr Jim Harris. Participants have found these sessions a valuable resource to reflect on their clinical practice. The programme is primarily designed for an audience of clinical psychiatrists, but colleagues in allied professions and research fields are very welcome to participate.

Dr Mina Fazel

Mina Fazel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford and a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist in the Department of Children’s Psychological Medicine at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She has been working for almost two decades on mental health issues concerning refugee populations, who have often been exposed to considerable ‘disasters’ and have been exposed to many potentially traumatic events. As a result she has developed two focuses in her work- firstly how best to provide services for populations who are hard to reach which has led to an interest in school-based mental health services as well as advocating for the rights of refugee and asylum seeking children across the globe. Her second interest is in improving access to evidence-based trauma therapies, and she was amongst the first practitioners to be trained to deliver Narrative Exposure Therapy in the UK and has been involved in training practitioners in NET across the UK and improving trauma-focused therapies and services.

UPCOMING SESSIONS

Hilary Term - The Unknown - "Precipitating Factors"

25/01/19 - Surprise: confronting the unexpected (booking open)
05/02/19 - Disaster (booking open)
15/03/19 - The Future

Trinity Term - The Known - “Current Social Circumstances”

03/05/2019 - Home
04/06/2019 - Work
04/07/2019 - Community

Psychiatry UEP - "Disaster"