Dr. Kenisha Jackson; Mental Health Care for Marginalized Children
Duration: 27 mins
Publication Date: 24 Mar 2025
Next Review Date: 24 Mar 2028
DOI: 10.13056/acamh.13688
Description
What is ‘generational trauma’? Do social inequalities play a role in accessing CAMHS? How important is representation in therapy? All this and more answered as Professor Umar Toseeb interviews Dr. Kenisha Jackson about access to, and experiences of, mental health care for marginalised children.
Learning Objectives
1. Insight into what is meant by ‘Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy’ and whether social inequalities play a role in accessing psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
2. The pipeline of inequality and the audit of referrals within child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).
3. Peoples’ experiences once they are in the CAMHS system and taking part of psychoanalytic psychotherapy – including the experiences of parents, children, and therapists.
4. Generational trauma and the impact on more marginalised communities.
5. The impact of wider societal problems and what can therapy do in the context of all of this.
6. Importance of representation in therapy – both in terms of the therapist and in terms of being designed and developed with a particular population in mind.
