PDD: Working with Context, Identity/Diversity, and Universal Equity: An Embedded, Whole-Practice Approach
The purpose of these sessions is to understand and apply an embedded approach to therapeutic practice, where context, identity, diversity, and universal equity are embedded by design (not as an add-on)鈥攔eferred to as 'Whole-Person' or 'Client in Context' Practice. This includes knowledge, awareness, and skills in embedding social and personal context, difference, and diversity 鈥榓s standard鈥� for all clients (as well as becoming more self-aware of your own whole context).
Programme
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| Time | Session |
| 9.30am - 10.30am |
This session will outline the benefits and solutions of an embedded approach to the inclusion of context, identity/diversity, and universal equity, explaining why this approach is vital for enriched, robust, and inclusive practice. It will also introduce a broad bio-psychosocial-structural model, incorporating social determinants of mental health to understand the root causes of mental health. This session will be followed by a live Q&A session with the presenter. |
| 10.30am 鈥� 11.30am |
The session will outline the main theories and concepts (such as stress, trauma, harm, adaptation, cultural stress, and cross-cultural empathy gaps) that need to be embedded throughout practice. This will help you begin integrating these ideas into therapeutic practice, including conceptualising clients鈥� difficulties. This session will be followed by a live Q&A session with the presenter. |
| 11.30am 鈥� 11.45am | Break |
| 11.45am - 12.30pm | The final session will provide examples of how these ideas are embedded into self-development, theory, relationships, and skills, using a whole approach to practice that produces universal equity by design. It will also cover an embedded approach to the therapeutic relationship based on Petruska Clarkson鈥檚 five modes of the relationship, as well as a whole approach to accessibility, adjustments, and accommodations. |
| 12.30pm 鈥� 1.00pm | The event will finish with an extended live Q&A session with the presenter, Mamood Ahmad. |
| 1.00pm | Event close |
This programme is subject to change.
About the presenter
Mamood Ahmad (he/him) is a UKCP-registered psychotherapist, course tutor, public speaker, and the founder of The Antidiscrimination Focus (TADF). He collaborates with communities, accreditation bodies, training providers, and institutes, employing a whole-person ecological vision to embed the client and social context into psychological curricula, service design, and organisational structures. He is the author of A New Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy, published by Routledge. Since 2012, he has run a private therapy practice in Berkshire, England.