Isaac Akande (he/him)
@IsaacoAkande
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Clinical Psychologist interested in how stories can be used to disrupt injustices. Views based on experience/s, open to change and ultimately my own.
Joined April 2020
Have you ever wondered what happens in an #OpenDialogue Network Meeting? Well now you can find out! With my first ever Lego stop motion animation I will walk you through it: 👇🏼🧍🏼♂️🎥 https://t.co/AHVblc429Q
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The next online introduction to the Open Dialogue approach with Nick Putman takes place next week, on Thursday 27 November. For further details and to book a place, please visit this page on our website:
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Newly published research shows that taking calls & answering emails during “non-work” time can have negative consequences for people. When people use work-related technology in the evening (even by choice) they struggle to mentally switch off from work, which negatively affects
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If we want our teams to innovate & try new, better ways of working, we have to focus on willingness to take risks. Risk is a massive issue in health & care improvement, where we are having to challenge many of the ways that we deliver care & fundamentally rethink existing
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Some examples include our novel soothing and safety outreach groups. We also collaborate on other things, including Open Dialogue/family work and the implementation of trauma-informed care.
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There are many opportunities to do exciting things, including contribute to and/or further develop our well-respected group programme. As psychological professions in the team, we are always very keen on working closely with OT colleagues and do so regularly.
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We are looking for maternity cover for our valued OT role within @MaudsleyNHS, Community Rehabilitation Team. You’ll be joining a caring and compassionate team. There is also a strong OT network across the Southwark community services. https://t.co/45pCISJAnx Please RT.
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Question: How can we build a link to purpose that improves performance for all employees? Answer: Activate the power of frontline (team) leaders in making purpose meaningful in daily work. A study of 57,000 employees across 469 organisations showed that when team leaders have
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1/3 “With great power comes great responsibility.” It’s been said so often we forget it’s meant to be a warning. Leadership is power. You may not feel it in the day-to-day, but your words, moods and decisions ripple through people’s lives.
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Facilitation skills are not just for change & improvement "experts". Every leader should have them. Organisations that integrate facilitation into their leadership approach report more productive & engaged teams, improved innovation & better decision-making. Facilitative
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Delighted that first clinical testing results of Feeling Safer are now published. Our new six-month supported online programme for persecutory delusions maintained the large effects of the face-to-face therapy. @OxExpPsy @OxPsychiatry @OxHealthBRC
https://t.co/EYUqFpMUnY
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A 6-month supported online program for the treatment of persecutory delusions: Feeling Safer - Volume 55
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Three modes of organising for improvement: (1) Doing things well (2) Doing things better (3) Doing better things An organisational improvement strategy should focus on all three. Many organisations currently are overfocussed on (1) & (2) and under focussed on (3). This is risky
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And once you’ve done that, listen to the song again! It is particularly pertinent given the atrocities taking place in the Middle East and the way this continues to be positioned as justified, proportional (etc.).
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Not many people can talk from a trauma-informed perspective as beautifully and accessibly as @Santandave1 (and I say this as a clinical psychologist). If you don’t know, listen to Three Rivers from his aptly titled, We’re All Alone in This Together album:
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Dave · We're All Alone In This Together · Song · 2021
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Most change plans don’t even consider or mention resistance to change. Yet it should be a primary focus in all our change interventions. Every change initiative starts out weak & vulnerable, without a track record of success. People are suspicious. They already have everyday
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We’re recruiting to a 0.8 WTE 8b psychologist/psychotherapist role in our Southwark mental health team serving rough sleeping communities (START). Applications are accepted until the end of 17th June. https://t.co/Q3o5lVqXto. Interviews are planned for the 10th July. Please RT.
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A new theoretical model of persecutory delusions (severe paranoia) that explicitly shows what needs to happen in treatment. Includes how to introduce counterweights to the thoughts and behaviours that cause paranoia. @OxExpPsy @OxPsychiatry @CambUP_Psych
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A counterweight model for understanding and treating persecutory delusions - Volume 55
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THREAD: 2024 was another busy and successful year for the #PTMFramework. Training, talks and workshops include: DCP Psychotherapy Section; the annual Cognitive Analytic Therapy conference; the Forensic Psychology conference; clin psych trainees at UCL, UEL, Salomons, Leicester;
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