The structure of many mental health care services places significant pressure on people from different professions to work together to provide holistic care for patients experiencing mental health difficulties.
However, despite the known benefits of multi discipline teams (MDTs) and them being regularly championed by government, MDTS can be problematic when it comes to their functioning. When the idea of setting a diverse group of professional meets reality - facilitators also must navigate the unconscious life of the group. As such the MDT is met with interprofessional politics, competing hierarchies, different professional languages and cultures, pay comparisons, a reluctance to attend shared spaces, relentless stuckness on specific issues, or a drifting into agreeability/ yes culture rather than staying with the more complex dynamic group work of creative challenge.
So how might we bring into focus some of the hidden forces at play in groups?
Issues for exploration in the training include:
• Group Frame
• Group Attachment
• Group Matrix
• Group Task
• Conflict in Groups
• Location of Disturbance
It is expected that this training will give you skills in observing and attending to group processes in an MDT. Also, that it will encourage you in developing your capacity to think more group analytically about MDTS. There will be a focus on critical thinking about conscious and unconscious aspects of group dynamics.
The day is divided into three sessions. Each session will involve a presentation of the main themes for discussion, followed by a reflective space for the group to explore the material together.
The day will be divided as follows:
Schedule
9:30 - Welcome and Introduction
10:00 - MDTs and the Group Matrix
11: 15 - Break
12:00 - Containing the Containers
13:30 - Break
14:15 - Cultures of Creative Disagreement
15:30 - Final Reflections and Goodbyes
A PDF copy of the presentations and an Attendance Certificate will be sent following the event.
This training is for anyone interested in group analytic psychology and working in an MDT. They may be of particular interest to psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses and psychotherapists and other healthcare professionals.
If you would like to join the mailing list regarding the groups I run please contact me at: mail@libbynugent.com and mention this group.
RECOMMENDED READING
Novakovic, Aleksandra and Vincent, David. (2019). Group Analysis: Working with Staff, Teams and Organizations (The New International Library of Group Analysis) 1st Edition.
Pronin, E., Lin, D. Y., & Ross, L. (2002). The bias blind spot: Perceptions of bias in self versus others. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 369-381.
Speaker:
Dr Libby Nugent is a Clinical Psychologist & Group Work Practitioner of Psychoanalysis. She originally specialised in complex trauma, working in sexual health and HIV and also in chronic pain.
She now works with individuals and groups in private practice. Her doctoral thesis was examining the processes involved in inter professional collaboration in CAMHS and she has a strong interest in Jungian and group analytic psychoanalysis. She is trained as a group work practitioner of group psychoanalysis and is currently in training to become a group psychoanalyst.
For the past ten years much of her work is to provide reflective spaces for both members of the public and also professional groups such as senior clinicians and pre-clinically qualified psychologists; Providing creative ways to think deeply about ourselves, each other, our society and the many identities we live.
She runs three long term reflective practice groups in her private practice and provides supervision to facilitators of reflective practice groups in the NHS.
She is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
*Refund: Tickets are non-refundable.
