The seminar aims to discuss the implications of racism in different scenarios of everyday life, both in the care of patients and family members, and in the mental health of carers. Two experiences of anti-racist training for healthcare workers in Brazil will be discussed, drawing attention to a problem that is overlooked in Portugal, both from a scientific perspective and from a public policy perspective. 

Programme

Jaqueline Lemos de Oliveira, Quilombo mental health: the Kilomboeste experience
Rachel Gouveia, Toward an anti-racist, feminist and anti-asylum training: the experience of the Rio de Janeiro Psychosocial Census
Comments: Cláudia Penido (UFMG/CES) and Marta Araújo (CES) | Moderator: Sílvia Portugal (CES/FEUC)

Bio notes

Jaqueline Lemos de Oliveira - Nurse, Doctor of Science from the Psychiatric Nursing Programme at the Ribeirão Preto School of Nursing, University of São Paulo; Professor in the Department of Maternal-Child and Psychiatric Nursing at the University of São Paulo School of Nursing. Her research interests are mental health in primary care, mental health promotion, social markers of inequalities and mental health, social support, and alcohol and other drug use.

Rachel Gouveia - Social worker. PhD in Social Work from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. Professor of Undergraduate and Graduate Social Work at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Collaborator in the Postgraduate Programme in Social Policy at the Fluminense Federal University. Coordinator of the Research and Outreach Project Anti-Asylum Struggle and Feminisms. Her academic, professional and political work focuses on the following themes: Critical Social Psychology and Mental Health; Brazilian Social Formation, Racism and Subjectivation Processes; Gender, Race and Class Relations and Psychosocial Suffering and Illness; Mental Health, Drugs, Psychosocial Care and Anti-Asylum Struggle; Intersectional and Decolonial Feminisms; Theories and Practises of Care.