Presentation on my commonwealth fellowship activities in UK.

1. A journey to be a better psychologist:
An experiential account
Final presentation on the fellowship, September –December, 2016
Farah Deeba, PhD (Macquarie University, Syd, Australia)
Commonwealth Professional Fellow 2016 (UK)
Clinical Psychologist
and
Associate Professor
Department of Clinical Psychology
University of Dhaka
Dhaka , Bangladesh
Presentation date: 5th December 2016
Venue: NHS,HQ, London, UK

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About presentation
• Trees of Life
• …"it is a tool that uses different parts of
a tree as metaphors to represent the
different aspects of our lives“… (Ncube
& Denborough, 2007)

3. Four parts
• Part -1:
– The Tree of Life: Individual
experiential
• Part 2:
– The Forest of Life: Moving to
collective
• Part 3:
– The Storms of Life: Collective
disclosure
• Part 4:
– Certificates and celebrations
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4. Ground: Riverbankposition
FromIndividual to Group
The Ground represents the present – Where we live, what we choose to do each day The present / landscape of action
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5. Part -1: The Tree of Life: Individual experiential
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6. The Roots
Represents the queries on where do you come from?
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7. The Trunk
Represents skills, abilities, values and talents. What are you good at?
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8. The Branches
represent Our hopes, dreams & wishes - combination of big hopes and
smaller - self, family, community - hopes have a history (trace them!)
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9. The Leaves
Represent people Those who are special to us
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People from CMHS,
Tower Hamlets
People from NHS-HQ
UK-BD link
Professionals from
different other
CAMHS,
e.g. Hackney,
Homerton, Luxford
My wonderful
supervisors

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Strengthening the
NHS,UK and DU,BD
Link Project
Knowledge on
Systemic Family
Therapy
Networking TheoreticallyPractically
Supervisors
Professionals
with BD
background
Experts
from other
background
Single Family
therapy
sessions
Texts received
from various
sources
Trainings and
workshops
CAP FOUNDATION
BD Mental
Health Forum
Dr. Sylvia Duncan
Mulimara Moses
Dr. Dorindar Finch, Child
Psychotherapist
Dr. Dave Harper & Dr.
Neil Rees, UEL
Dr. Butterfield
Dr. Skillicorn
Dr. Maroni
Ms. Amina Ishaq
Ms. Shila Rashid
Dr. Alice Rogers
Dr. Heleni Andreadi
Dr. Glenda Fredman Conferences
Trees of Life,
Org by-Friends of KCC
Child Abuse and
intervention,
By-BASPCAN
Training
Observation
Multi-Family
Group sessions
Assessment
and Therapy
session

11. Fruits-Seeds-Flowers
The flowers: Gifts they have given others.
Fruits: Legacies bequeathed to us What those special people have given to us
Seeds: Legacies we wish to leave Gifts we wish to give to others
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Systemic Family Therapy Approach
Trees of Life
Clinical Skills
Assessment skills
Research ideas,
inspiration for
publications

12. The flowers: Gifts they have given others.
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13. Part 2: The Forest of Life: Moving to collective
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• Networking with CAP Foundation, UK and Department of
Clinical Psychology
• Scholarship program that will be beneficial for the nation in
making more clinical psychologists in the country and also a way to
get services in areas where psychological services are yet to be
introduces.
• Prospective strength of The NHS,UK- DU,BD Link from
professionals from other psychological approaches,
professionals from Bangladeshi diasporas.

14. Part 3: The Storms of Life: Collective disclosure
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Amina Ishaq
Dr. Alice Rogers

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16. Part 4: Certificates and celebrations
1. Our skills and abilities
2. Our dreams and hopes for the future
3. Special people they want to appreciate in life
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17. Part 4: Certificates and celebrations
Exercise
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18. •Thanks a lot
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Photo Credit: DeebaF
farahdeeba@du.ac.bd