CV

Dr Stephen Melluish BSc, MSc, DClin Psy
Current position
Clinical Director, Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology, University of Leicester.

Recent relevant publications
Melluish, S. , Latchford, G. and Marks, S. (in press) The International Context of British Clinical Psychology. Chapter in: Hall. J., Pilgrim, D. and Turpin, G. Clinical Psychology in Britain: Historical Perspectives.
Tribe, R and Melluish, S. (2014), Special Issue: Globalisation, Culture and Mental health. International Review of Psychiatry. 26,5, 535-537.

Relevant conference presentations
2012 Melluish, S. What is globalisation? Globalisation, Culture and Psychology conference, University of Leicester, Leicester
2011 Castro, M., Burton, M., & Melluish, S Community trans-psychology praxis: what can European Community psychology learn from Latin America? Symposium at the 8th European Congress of Community Psychology, York, UK.

INVITED SYMPOSIUM ABSTRACT
Globalisation and Global Mental Health
Global Mental Health is a relatively new area that is concerned with addressing inequities in mental health provision across the globe. The WHO report ‘Treatment Gap in Mental Health’ highlighted the pressing mental health needs of populations within low and middle income countries (LMIC) and the injustice that these countries receive less than 20% of the share of the global mental health resource yet make up 80% of the population. In recent years there have been concerted efforts to scale-up mental health services in LMIC countries and this has created a context for the development of what has become known as the Global Mental Health Movement . This development has been criticised as a new form of medical colonialism, with a prevailing flow of Western mental-health theories, treatments and categories to LMIC countries. This symposium explores the debates around the impact of globalisation on global mental health and the question of whether Western models undermine local conceptions of the self and ways of healing. The symposium builds on themes raised in a recent special issue of the International Review of Psychiatry (Tribe and Melluish, 2014) to explore the place of psychological knowledge and the role of psychologists in the globalisation of mental health.