Bilingual Forum for Therapists and Mental Health Interpreters
A National Forum for Bilingual Therapists and Mental Health Interpreters was established in 2010 to share learning and improve standards and practice. The Forum provides a space for ideas, experience, learning and good practice across languages to be shared and to offer a source of support and a network of supervision in a variety of languages.
The Forum meetings focus on a range of issues including:
The Forum meets twice a year in London. There is no charge for attendance at the Forum. A film of the last meeting , which was held on March 1st 2018, is in the Resources section of this website. To find out more about the Forum please contact: beverley@pasaloproject.org
A National Forum for Bilingual Therapists and Mental Health Interpreters was established in 2010 to share learning and improve standards and practice. The Forum provides a space for ideas, experience, learning and good practice across languages to be shared and to offer a source of support and a network of supervision in a variety of languages.
The Forum meetings focus on a range of issues including:
- Language switching and its meaning
- Languages in which trauma is experienced and in which trauma is recalled
- The possibility of expressing different and additional emotions in different languages
- The interpreter’s role in the therapeutic alliance
- Language as a transitional object
- Language, communication and power
- People’s identities and relationships with different languages
The Forum meets twice a year in London. There is no charge for attendance at the Forum. A film of the last meeting , which was held on March 1st 2018, is in the Resources section of this website. To find out more about the Forum please contact: beverley@pasaloproject.org