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CCDN Cross Cultural Therapy Services consists of a dedicated & qualified team of 5 counsellors and therapists providing one to one culturally specific support for Adults, children, young people and their families. Services include child, adolescent & family therapy, sandplay and art therapy, marital guidance, parenting support, Diversity training with special needs and integration into the family group. If you would like to refer someone or refer yourself, please contact us for further details   Inquiry Group on Black Mental Health – Creating a Critical Mass If you are a well established experienced black mental health practitioners from all professional disciplines in both the statutory and voluntary sectors please join our debate about black mental health and advance the discourse in the field, in order to  link this up with developments initiated by Dr. Agnes Bryan, Training & Development Consultant (Black and Minority Ethnic Communities)/ TAVISTOCK which invited us to "seriously work together to engage in in-depth critical analysis of a reflective nature, foster and encourage scholarship, and support the development of new thinking that gets produced in publications and disseminated in workshops and seminars.  Support writing for publications and indeed develop our own specialist journal on black mental health. To produce critical thinking for the formulation of policies and inform practice, with black mental health clients, that is relevant for working with the issues of the 21st century.   The aims of the Inquiry Group are as follows:   To make known our experiences and put forward ideas emanating from these experiences in the public domain Advance development and deepen the debate on black mental health in the field To influence models of practice among professionals in all disciplines To continually develop our own models/frameworks for practice To publish scholarly papers   We aim to meet every 6 weeks and most meetings take the form of a presentation.  So far, we have had presentations on   Afrocentricity Franz Fanon Cultural Sensitivity Colonial Object Relations – beneath the surface of black white relations Afrocentricity in Action, Reflections post Climbie – why was racism not diagnosed? A View from the dark side – a black man’s experience of psychoanalysis The Process of family talk across culture – work in Progress Reflection on the French Ethnopsychiatric perspective The use of the Oedipus Complex in thinking about differences when consulting to individuals and organisations The Gun Crisis in the black community – a legacy of separation and broken attachments  Meetings may be less frequent as the group’s work becomes more established.  I recognize that this group will initially be small and might grow over time.  I have no intention of being exclusive, on the contrary, the impetus for this initiative lies in the neglect and marginalisation of voices from black communities in developing and deepening understanding of black mental health issues. For political reasons I believe it is a good idea for such a group to be linked in some way to the Tavistock from the standpoint of ideological and training influence and for influencing models and frameworks for professional practice."