“Anti Victim Blaming, Trauma-informed.” VictimFocus is an international training, research and consultancy organisation working to tackle prejudice and stereotyping of adults and children subjected to crime, violence, abuse and trauma. We support and encourage professionals from all sectors and disciplines by providing training courses, support networks, research and evaluation, events, free and affordable resources, research, reports and guidance.
Guest bio: Dr. Jessica Taylor is the author of ‘Why Women Are Blamed for Everything’, and the newly released ‘Sexy But Psycho’ which is a Sunday Times Bestseller. She has a PhD in Forensic Psychology, and is Director of VictimFocus.
Our guest today is Jessica Taylor, author of Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women’s Trauma Against Them, which was published in March by Little, Brown and quickly hit the London Times bestseller list. Based in England, she is a chartered psychologist with a PhD in forensic psychology and more than a dozen years of experience working with women and girls subjected to abuse and other trauma.
Beyond Blue created this lived experience video resource of women sharing what prompted them to seek support for their mental health, and their advice for other women and how they stay well.
This production was written, recorded and filmed over 5 days in April 2016 in the remote community of Bourke in far Western NSW. An out come of a Desert Pea Media community project with a group of young Indigenous people enrolled at Bourke High School.
Matt Ball began the Humane Clinic following 15 years of working in public mental health services in the UK and Australia and recognising the inherent problems of these systems and how they stifled the human to human relationship.
Emerging Minds Learning is the home of free online training courses to support children’s mental health and wellbeing.
