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Guest Editor Zenobia Nadirshaw BRENT, KENSINGTON, CHELSEA & WESTMINSTER MENTAL HEALTH NHS TRUST r Zenobia Nadirshaw holds the post of Lead Clinician and Head of Psychology Services and is Acting Team Leader for the Services for People with Learning Disabilities with the Brent, Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster Mental Health NHS Trust. Prior to that she was Head of Learning Disability Psychology Services in northwest Hertfordshire. She currently holds an honorary Senior Research Fellow post at the Ethnicity and Social Policy Research Unit at the University of Bradford. She is presently a Trustee of the Mental Health Foundation, and Chair of a voluntary alcohol advisory and counselling service (EACH) in Hounslow, Brent and Harrow. Zenobia was the first psychologist to chair the Transcultural Psychiatry Society (UK). Over her 26 years’ work in the NHS she has gathered a wide range of experience in teaching, lecturing, and researching on mental health, learning disabilities and women’s issues. She was joint author of the first nationally funded study to look at service provision for Black and ethnic minority people with learning disabilities and their families in 1990. She has recently completed a Department of Health-funded study on clinical psychology and Black and ethnic minority communities. She has conducted studies as well as being involved at different levels of work within the professional practice and training of clinical psychologists, nurses and social workers. In 1997, she won the award for challenging inequality of opportunity from the British Psychological Society. Over the last ten years Zenobia has drawn attention to the issues of ‘race’, difference and diversity and to the effects of social inequality in the context of the mental health and human care systems. She has spoken and continues to speak widely at national level on the plight of vulnerable sections of society who experience disadvantage and discrimination inside and outside the health and social care systems. She sits on several national committees of the British Psychological Society, the Division of Clinical Psychology, the English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery & Health Visiting, and the Community Care Development Centre based at King’s College London. At present she is co-editing a training resource pack which mainstreams issues of ‘race’, culture and ethnicity in post-qualification training in clinical psychology. The pack will be published early next year by BPS Publication Department. Keyworking Elizabeth FitzRoy Homes eople with learning disabilities living in residential and nursing homes have too often found that their personal care has been met by a different carer every day, and to different standards.The sense of indignity and insecurity that this can cause is considered in this training resource. Keyworking offers everything you need to run a one-day course on the role and responsibilities of a professional keyworker, the carer who develops a relationship with a specific individual, deals with their care and acts as their advocate. Keyworking is aimed at anyone working in a learning disability service which uses keyworkers/keyworker teams to support its service users.The course is suitable for a variety of people, including support workers, staff who have the role of keyworker and staff who support or supervise keyworkers. Format: 350pp wirobound manual including OHP masters, handouts, case studies, trainer's notes & programme timetables. £45 Code: 57P Contact Pavilion Customer Services on 01273 623222 to place your order Tizard Learning Disability Review VOLUME 4 ISSUE 4 NOVEMBER 1999 © Pavilion Publishing (Brighton) Limited http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Tizard Learning Disability Review Pier Professional

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Tizard Learning Disability Review , Volume 4 (4) – Nov 1, 1999
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Zenobia Nadirshaw BRENT, KENSINGTON, CHELSEA & WESTMINSTER MENTAL HEALTH NHS TRUST r Zenobia Nadirshaw holds the post of Lead Clinician and Head of Psychology Services and is Acting Team Leader for the Services for People with Learning Disabilities with the Brent, Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster Mental Health NHS Trust. Prior to that she was Head of Learning Disability Psychology Services in northwest Hertfordshire. She currently holds an honorary Senior Research Fellow post at the Ethnicity and Social Policy Research Unit at the University of Bradford. She is presently a Trustee of the Mental Health Foundation, and Chair of a voluntary alcohol advisory and counselling service (EACH) in Hounslow, Brent and Harrow. Zenobia was the first psychologist to chair the Transcultural Psychiatry Society (UK). Over her 26 years’ work in the NHS she has gathered a wide range of experience in teaching, lecturing, and researching on mental health, learning disabilities and women’s issues. She was joint author of the first nationally funded study to look at service provision for Black and ethnic minority people with learning disabilities and their families in 1990. She has recently completed a Department of Health-funded study on clinical psychology and Black and ethnic minority communities. She has conducted studies as well as being involved at different levels of work within the professional practice and training of clinical psychologists, nurses and social workers. In 1997, she won the award for challenging inequality of opportunity from the British Psychological Society. Over the last ten years Zenobia has drawn attention to the issues of ‘race’, difference and diversity and to the effects of social inequality in the context of the mental health and human care systems. She has spoken and continues to speak widely at national level on the plight of vulnerable sections of society who experience disadvantage and discrimination inside and outside the health and social care systems. She sits on several national committees of the British Psychological Society, the Division of Clinical Psychology, the English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery & Health Visiting, and the Community Care Development Centre based at King’s College London. At present she is co-editing a training resource pack which mainstreams issues of ‘race’, culture and ethnicity in post-qualification training in clinical psychology. The pack will be published early next year by BPS Publication Department. Keyworking Elizabeth FitzRoy Homes eople with learning disabilities living in residential and nursing homes have too often found that their personal care has been met by a different carer every day, and to different standards.The sense of indignity and insecurity that this can cause is considered in this training resource. Keyworking offers everything you need to run a one-day course on the role and responsibilities of a professional keyworker, the carer who develops a relationship with a specific individual, deals with their care and acts as their advocate. Keyworking is aimed at anyone working in a learning disability service which uses keyworkers/keyworker teams to support its service users.The course is suitable for a variety of people, including support workers, staff who have the role of keyworker and staff who support or supervise keyworkers. Format: 350pp wirobound manual including OHP masters, handouts, case studies, trainer's notes & programme timetables. £45 Code: 57P Contact Pavilion Customer Services on 01273 623222 to place your order Tizard Learning Disability Review VOLUME 4 ISSUE 4 NOVEMBER 1999 © Pavilion Publishing (Brighton) Limited

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