Benefits of a collaboration: Department of Clinical Psychology, DU, Bangladesh and NHS, UK in the context.

1. Benefits of a collaboration:
Department of Clinical Psychology, DU,
Bangladesh and NHS, UK in the context
Farah Deeba, PhD (Syd, Australia)
Commonwealth Professional Fellow 2016 (UK)
Macquarie University fellow (July 2016, Aus)
Clinical Psychologist
and
Associate Professor
Department of Clinical Psychology
University of Dhaka
Dhaka , Bangladesh
URL: http://www.du.ac.bd/faculty/faculty_details/CPS/1595
Vice-President
Bangladesh Clinical Psychology Society (BCPS)
Venue: NHS Headquarter, Alie Street, UK
Date: July 3, 2018

2.  Thank you for joining despite having England on the
world cup football field today.
 I also would like to express my deep condolences for
members lost dear ones recently. (Graham, Alison)
 Missing someone very important for our link, trainer Dr.
Glenda Fredman, due to her eye operation. I wish her
early recovery too.

3. Objectives of today’s presentation
 Sharing our achievements since the development of
the link between DU, BD and NHS, UK (2015
onwards).
 I am grateful to Academy of Medical Sciences, UK to
allow me to stay over and work for my country and do
this presentation.

4. Little bit of background history
 Britain is the greatest friend of ours in developing
mental health services in our country.

5. Development of clinical psychology profession in
Bangladesh
1995-2018
• Historical relationship with UK (1996-1999)
• Prof. Graham Powell and Prof. Anisur Rahman designed the
curriculum in a way so that we get exposure to most of the
important therapeutic approaches.
• Development of Clinical Psychology Department (past and
present, academic programs, research,
http://www.du.ac.bd/academic/department_item_details/faculty/CPS)
– Department of Clinical Psychology
– Nature of training
• Placements and specialists placements
• Research works:
• Present research interests
– (mostly about general psychiatric problems of adulthood, however, it
is shifting greatly to different age groups as well as to different
problem areas.)

6. My first exposure to Family therapy by
Dr. Roger Young, 1998

7. Development of
present
NHS,UK and DU, BD link
 2011:
 Visit of Philip Messent and his team to Dhaka
 Their visit to Department of Clinical Psychology, DU
 2012:
 Dr. Amra Rao and seminar at Newham.
 Philip, Cerdic Hall (Meeting), I received the invitation to
do a CSC fellowship at NHS, however as I was doing full-
time PhD with full scholarship I requested and
recommended for Nazma Khatun.

8. Presentation at Newham, NHS, UK 2012

9. Development of
present
NHS,UK and DU, BD link (Cont.)
2014:
Nazma Khatun,
1st CSC Fellow from DCP, DU
2015:
Finalization of MoU between NHS
and DCP (Philip Messent)

10. Achievements
 UK members
 BD members
 Together

11. Achievements for UK members:
1. Provided training
2. Conducted Supervision
3. Provided support to learn better (NHS and CSC)
4. Other trainings
 Training from Deirdie Dowling (Feedback from Swampa)

12. 1. Provided training
Level-1
Level-2
Current supervisors
Glenda Fredman
Phillip Messent
Shila Rashid (Bangla
speaker)

13. Systemic Family Therapy Training Level 1 August 2015
25 clinical psychologists from Dhaka and one from Rajshahi
joined the first 10–day training course

14. Training from Alison Butterfield,
Family therapist, NHS, 2017

15. SYSTEMIC AND FAMILY THERAPY TRAINING
Level 2
The Department of Clinical Psychology
University of Dhaka
April 29th – May 10th 2018

16. 2. Systemic Supervision
Face-to-face
Online
Whole day supervision with Shila Rashid and 18 participants
Dhaka 5th November 2015

17. 3. Providing funding support to learn more
Three Commonwealth professional fellowship funding
Three members from BD (NK, FD and KM)
(For instance: Activities done in FD’s fellowship.)
Building network with professionals (both clinical practice and
research) from UK and BD.

18. 4. Other trainings
 Introduction to Child &
Adolescent
Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy
 Deirdre Dowling
 Consultant Child and
Adolescent
Psychotherapist
 Venue: Clinical
Psychology Department
at Dhaka University
 Date: 22nd to 31st
October, 2017
 Total participants: 25

20. Feedback from Mst. Swampa, Clinical
Psychologist working at a School in
Dhaka, June 2018
Main focus of the training was on Understanding Children’s
and adolescents behavior as communication, Understanding
Transference & Countertransference, Therapeutic Work with
Parents & Infant, Managing Difficult Behaviour, Development
Issues: Early, Mid- and Late Adolescence, Growing up as a
Teenager in Bangladesh, Therapy with Traumatized Children
of Different ages, including re-enactment of early trauma and
current trauma in adolescence, ……
That training was really effective training especially for
those who are working with children or in school setting
in Bangladesh. Using play materials are really helpful to
working with child and adolescents.
We feel that we need more vast training on
psychoanalysis for establishing better mental health in
Bangladesh.

21. Achievements for BD members:
 1. Service development
 2. Meeting for Supervision:
 3. Training on SFT to new groups:

22. 1. Service development

23. Referral sources for couple and
family therapy
 Psychiatrists
 Colleagues
 Relatives
 Family members (self referred)
 Referred by other therapists
 Legal system (Referred by the Court)
 NGOs ( who are working on violence and
conflict resolution for marital relationship )

24. 2. Attending SFT Supervision
Virtual Class Room, Dhaka University,
Bangladesh
Monthly 2 hours supervision through video conference
London Supervisors: Glenda Fredman, Shila Rashid, Philip Mes

25. Including Rajshahi University

26. 3. Training on SFT to new groups:
Fellow clinical psychologists
Other mental health professionals
 (for instance, ….)

27. Achievements
SFT practitioners in BD trained
psychologists at OCCs and NTCC
of MSPVAW) in June 2018

28. Achievements together
 1. Attendance to international conferences
 2. Publications in professional forums
 3. Collaborative research works

29. 3/17/20172017 IFTA Conference, Malaga, spain
 1. Attendance to conference
Sabiha Jahan, Md. Zahir Uddin and Glenda Fredman
presented: Family Therapy Training in Bangladesh
Coordinating Across Cultures
International Family Therapy Association Conference, 2017
Malaga, Spain
(funded by David Campbell memorial fund and Association of Family
Therapy)

30. 2. Publications
• Sabiha Jahan with Glenda
Fredman
(in SFT journal)
• FD and Deirdie Dowling on
play
(Review Book of DD)

31. 3. Collaborative research
works
 Dr. Haroon Rasid, NHS, (Researchers from Queen Mary
University)
 Dr. Farah Deeba, DU (researchers from Manchester
University)

32. Feedback from one of the participants
Nazme Ara, Clinical Psychologist, BD,
May, 2018
I am very fortunate that I got the oppirtunity to participate the
skills traing level-2 by NHS-DU link. it is very very helpful for
me for my professional and personal life as it was a experincial
one! Every point/component/word is certainly very important for
me. Training is not only helpful for family and couple sessions
but also for the individual sessions! It is beneficial for BD
context where we all belongs to a family and family
relationships are very significant for us in our culture.
…….
For me(and us, I think) the links attempts is a new
window. It is bringing valuable knowledge for mental
health professional. I think regular supervision, learning
journal group and advance training shoud be arranged for
the continuation and growth for us as trainee and to
become competent as family therapist. This core group
can spread the learning to the other practitioners and
general public(which should be the ultimate goal and
success?). So of course the fellowship should go on for
better future of MENTAL HEALTH in BD. I wish this will go
on and more new windows will be opened……..

33. My personal gratitude to four
institutions
 1. Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
 2. Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, UK
 3. Academy of Medical Sciences, UK for sponsoring me
for a workshop on
 4. Nasirullah Psychotherapy Unit at Department of
Clinical Psychology, DU

34. Thanks
• Q &A
– Any suggestion
– Any interest to have
support or collaboration
– Or joint investigation
– Email:
farahdeeba@du.ac.bd