Episodes 1-12

Episode 1, September 2020

"An intro to the series giving an outline of who I am, why I'm doing this and what I aim to highlight and achieve in these recordings."



      Episode 2, October 2020

           "Looking at papers that really evidence the importance of therapeutic relationships in mental health care and their significant and                          consistent impact on outcomes."


    Episode 3, November 2020

"Talk about a couple of papers that narrow down some of the key factors that contribute to meaningful and impactful therapeutic relationships."



  Episode 4, December 2020

"In this edition I invite Prof Subodh Dave to join me in a discussion around person-centred and relational aspects of care. This is an area that he, as Associate Dean, has been promoting actively for several years and its great to hear of his journey as well as the evidence and importance of this aspect of our work."



 Episode 5, February 2021

"Discussing some important international research that helps us to better understand what the patient perspective is on therapeutic relationships; in particular, which aspects of our dynamic they believe makes most difference and has the most impact."

Episode 6, March 2021

"In this episode I'm interviewing a very experienced colleague, Hugh Middleton. Prior to his recent retirement, Hugh was a consultant in Nottinghamshire where he worked in Crisis Teams and in the early days of their establishment he did some very interesting research into what seemed to be the key factors that promoted recovery and that service users felt made the most difference."


Episode 7, April 2021

"In this episode I describe some of the Open Dialogue core principles and how it differs from a lot of our services today."

Episode 8, May 2021

"I have taken the opportunity of this latest recording for the Relational Psychiatry vlog to meet up with some old friends and colleagues; Vicki Clark and Tom Cant. They are both Consultant Psychiatrists who trained in Open Dialogue a number of years ago and never looked back."

Episode 9, June 2021

"In this one I go through some slides about the national multi-centre Open Dialogue trial; ODDESSI. It is one of the largest mental health studies in the world right now and I go into some detail about the different aspects of the programme and also give an update on how it's going."

Episode 10, September 2021

" In this one I have with me a social worker and AMHP from Devon; Rob Manchester. Rob recently wrote an excellent paper on how to manage a Mental Health Act assessment in a relational and dialogical way. It was genuinely illuminating for me, as well as practically useful and I hope you enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed recording the meeting."

Episode 11, October 2021

"A number of colleagues have asked me about my experience as a mindfulness trainer and of training consultant and other colleagues in mindfulness as a way to enhance therapeutic relationships. I started doing this over 10 years ago now and have developed a talk around mindfulness in general as well as its particular benefit to clinicians."

Episode 12, November 2021

"This episode is about Trauma Informed Care. It's a relatively brief PowerPoint based presentation packed with the latest research about the extent of trauma among mental health service users and what a trauma informed approach to care looks like."




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