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Over the eight years of the Group’s existence
we have held at least one annual meeting at the College or at a
regional meeting and every year (except 2004) presented one or two
seminars at the Royal College’s Annual meetings. The themes of
our meetings have included:
- being gay or lesbian in the NHS: issues for staff and
patients
- self-harm in vulnerable groups
- discrimination and mental health
- working with mental health problems in lesbian and gay
clients
- psychotherapy for lesbian, gay and bisexual people.
- sex and psychosis
- impact of discrimination
- parenting
- multiple diversities
- boundaries and therapeutic relationships
- gay and lesbian health matters
- “therapies” that claim to change sexual orientation
- Working with the older LGBT person
The Group has also been involved in
representing the College as the Special Interest Group on Gay and
Lesbian Mental Health at the National Institute for Mental
Health England. It has advised the College on its Social Inclusion
Report and its submission to the Church of England Listening
Exercise on Human Sexuality. The Group has also developed a
Diversity Training pack.
Educational meetings
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Membership is open to all Members or
Associates of the College. Others may be invited to join at the
discretion of the Chair.
The SIG welcomes collaboration and
interest from allied professions. If you are not a College member
and wish to join the Special Interest Group, please
contact email for further
information.
The Executive Committee of the
Special Interest Group is well aware that membership of this Group
can be a sensitive issue for some people who are concerned about
confidentiality.
Thus we wish to emphasise that the
College keeps contact details strictly confidential. The Executive
Committee for the Group does not know the names and contact
details of non-executive members unless they provide them
informally to us. College staff handle all mailings.
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