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16 May 2023
I’m Not Anxious: resource pack

The theme of this year's Mental Health Awareness Week is anxiety and we've developed a free resource pack in partnership with Gloucester House Outreach Service.

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3 May 2023
New training partnership with Gloucester House Outreach Service

We are delighted to announce the launch of a new workshop series in partnership with Gloucester House Outreach Service - starting in June 2023.

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5 April 2023
Research Week 2023

Last week we held our annual Research Week, bringing together our staff, students, and visitors interested in research at the Trust. The online week was packed with talks and workshops to develop attendees’ research skills, and featured presentations from a range of our doctoral students during our Doctoral Conference, the highlight of the week.

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24 March 2023
Women, Life, Freedom

The death in custody of Mahsa Amini on 16 September 2022 following her arrest by the morality police for not covering her hair ‘properly’ was a shocking reminder of repression facing women and girls in Iran. Two female journalists who, bravely, covered this horrific incident have been jailed since and detained in solitary confinement. This event…

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24 March 2023
Tavistock Centre Open Day

Earlier this month, we opened our doors for our first in-person open day since 2019 – welcoming new and familiar faces to the Tavistock Centre for a morning of discovery and discussion.

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8 March 2023
Where are they now: in conversation with Paul Mills

Paul Mills (he/him) is a psychotherapist for children, young people and families at First Step and Open Door. Paul studied M7, Perinatal, child, adolescent and family work: a psychoanalytic observational approach, and then went on to do M34, Psychological therapies with children, young people and families. Paul came to psychotherapy a bit later in life,…

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8 March 2023
Widening participation in higher education

What is the Bursary Programme? An important part of our work over the last few years has been to launch a bursary programme for under-represented students, specifically from Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority backgrounds, as part of the Trust’s commitment to becoming a more inclusive education provider. This highly successful programme is now in its…

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27 February 2023
The challenges of working within and across organisations

Lydia Hartland-Rowe reflects on our Centenary Event, Working and Wellbeing: Organisations and Systems. If you missed the event, watch a recording here or go to our YouTube channel. I was delighted to take part in the latest in a series of Centenary Events at the Tavistock and Portman, ‘Working and Wellbeing: Organisations and Systems’. A…

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27 February 2023
Working with and facilitating groups

Blending theory, practice and experiential learning, Managing, supervising and facilitating groups in the workplace offers participants the opportunity to explore the processes and skills involved in planning, leading and reviewing a group – building understanding and confidence. Course leads Stephanie Segal and Peter Griffiths tell us more. This course aims to provide participants with an understanding of the processes…

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22 February 2023
Assessing risk: a relational approach

Suitable for a wide range of practitioners and clinicians,‘ Assessing Risk: A Relational Approach’ offers an innovative framework for understanding the subtle and complex issues involved in assessing and managing the risk of violence and sexual offending. Hear from our course lead Dr Muzaffar Husain. The ten-week course introduces a “narrative” element to the usual…

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10 February 2023
Talking to children about difficult things

Do you feel daunted when faced with the task of talking to children about difficult and painful issues? Looking for new ways to improve your communication skills with young people? Talking to children about difficult things is a short course which examines the psychological processes and complex dynamics at work below the surface, in order…

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14 December 2022
History of education at the Tavistock and Portman

The Tavistock Clinic, or the Tavi as it is more colloquially known, was founded on 27 September 1920 by Hugh Crichton-Miller at 51 Tavistock Square. It was established after World War 1 as a result of the experiences of that war. Crichton-Miller wanted to give civilians access to the same kinds of treatment that had…

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