40 years′ practice, teaching and research in London and overseas. She began
work researching in Nashville, Tennessee,
returned as Psychology lecturer at
the Institute of Psychiatry, and then established
an English Language Mental Health Service
in Brussels. She returned to East London, and
published
adapted
psychological treatments for the young
Bangladeshi community there , as well as
those with refugee experience.
Her doctoral thesis was on
multi-cultural psychology approaches for diverse communities.
Patricia
co-founded the Special Interest Group
on
Race and Culture within the British Psychological Society, where she met Aruna Mahtani, and with her, wrote
Transcultural Counselling in Action, first & second editions for SAGE ( 1989 & 1999).
In the last decade , Patricia
established
the Institute of Psychotrauma, an
East London Foundation NHS Trust specialist service, where she undertook research
on the use of interpreters in trauma-focussed therapies.
Patricia currently
chairs a Global Health Link between East London and Uganda- a government supported partnership
for
mental health development, where she has been training practitioners since 2006 in psychological therapies in
post conflict settings.
Patricia
teaches transcultural psychological approaches
at Queen Mary College.
She is an Associate with Interhealth Worldwide, preparing and supporting
staff on humanitarian missions overseas aid workers, and was recently elected to join the Psychological Health of Travellers Group within
the International Society for Travel Medicine.