Fellow’s Profile
Fellow’s Profile
Families in crisis – lessons from the USA
I was awarded my Fellowship in the 1990s.
I travelled throughout the United States and learned about novel ways of working with troubled and hard-to-reach families. When I returned to the UK I was able to apply what I had learned to my clinical practice, share my experiences and improve our ways of working with looked-after-children. Two of the concepts I brought to the table were the ideas of 'wraparound' care and specialist foster-care placements.
The Fellowship acted as a springboard and I went on to give lectures, talks and training events for parents, carers and professionals.
I've written for the Community Care magazine and for the Educational and Child Psychology Journal. I featured in two documentaries – one was part of the BBC Mosaic series in 1994 and the other, All Mixed Up, was for BBC2 in 2001.
I was the first black woman educational psychologist to work in Inner London. I retrained as a clinical psychologist and have recently had an anthology of short stories – Broadwater – published by Fairlight Books. I serve as a magistrate and continue to be involved in community initiatives and projects.
Clinical psychologist Jacquelyn Shreeves-Lee (CF 1995) wrote a book, Broadwater: short stories grounded in Tottenham, which was launched this month. It was published by Fairlight Books and tells the fictional tales of troubled families in a disadvantaged community, which was the topic of Jacquelyn’s Fellowship.
By Jacquelyn Shreeves-Lee, 2021
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
Clinical psychologist Jacquelyn Shreeves-Lee (CF 1995) wrote a book, Broadwater: short stories grounded in Tottenham, which was launched this month. It was published by Fairlight Books and tells the fictional tales of troubled families in a disadvantaged community, which was the topic of Jacquelyn’s Fellowship.
By Jacquelyn Shreeves-Lee, 2021
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
