
Professor Nimisha Patel
Clinical tutor
Clinical Tutor
Department of Psychology & Human Development , School of Childhood and Social Care
Nimisha has extensive experience in clinical work, research and policy development in relations to torture survivors.
CURRENT RESEARCH
- Torture and clinical psychology: clinical practice, clinical services and outcome evaluation
- Right to rehabilitation as a form of reparation for torture survivors
- The impact and use of medico-legal reports in support of allegations of torture in the UK asylum determination process
- Gender and torture
- Complicity of psychologists in torture
TEACHING
Course leader:
Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology
MODULES
Course leader:
Social Inequalities and Clinical Psychology Core
Publications
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Full publications list
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- Dismantling the scaffolding of institutional racism and institutionalising anti-racism Journal of Family Therapy. 44 (1), pp. 91-108. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12367
- Critical Human Rights-Based Approach to Applied Psychology: Context and power in: Hagenaars, P., Plavšić, M., Sveaass, N., Wagner, U. and Wainwright, T. (ed.) Human Rights Education for Psychologists . Routledge
- Editorial: Being nice is not enough Clinical Psychology Forum. 323, pp. 1-2. https://doi.org/10.53841/bpscpf.2019.1.323.1
- Psychological, social, and welfare interventions for torture survivors: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials PLoS Medicine. 16 (Art. e1002919). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002919
- Human Rights-Based Approach to Applied Psychology European Psychologist. 24, pp. 113-124. https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000371
- Conceptualising rehabilitation as reparation for torture survivors: a clinical perspective The International Journal of Human Rights. 23 (9), pp. 1546-1568. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2019.1612373
- Developing policy-relevant skills in clinical psychology training Clinical Psychology Forum. 301, pp. 9-14. https://doi.org/10.53841/bpscpf.2018.1.301.9