Clinical Doctoral students discuss experiences with Safety Net - People First

From October 2016, people with learning disabilities a from a disabled people’s organisation, Hammersmith & Fulham Safety Net - People First (SNPF) started working with Kate Theodore from Royal Holloway's Doctorate in Clinical Psychology to provide co-constructed teaching session for students and trainee clinical psychologists. The goals of the session delivered by SNPF were: to help students / trainees to understand more about what it’s like to live with learning disabilities, to improve communication skills, and to dispel myths and anxieties about working with people with learning disabilities. We used different teaching methods to achieve this including small group discussion tasks facilitated by SNPF members, for student / trainees to discuss topics such as ‘hidden disabilities’ and ‘anxieties asking clients about learning disabilities needs’. Here, a group of trainees talk about the impact of the training session delivered by people with learning disabilities. The teaching initiative was awarded a Royal Holloway College Team Teaching Prize in 2017.

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