Going Beyond: Homeless Link Practice Podcast

In Episode 4, we speak with Dr Aliénor (Lili) Lemieux-Cumberlege, Clinical Psychologist working across two community mental health teams in Edinburgh.  We discuss the differences between vicarious trauma, secondary traumatic stress and burnout and the impact these can have on frontline staff. We talk about resilience and discuss what organisations can do to support staff.

In Episode 3, we talk to Ben Neal, independent organisational consultant and coach. We discuss why people come to work in the homelessness sector and how this plays out in the way they deliver their work, looking at how our boundaries can often be pushed.

In Episode 2, we hear from Andy Phee, mindfulness practitioner and teacher at Oxford University’s Mindfulness Centre. We discuss what mindfulness is, go through some simple grounding exercises and talk about how we can use mindfulness to unpack stress in daily life.

In Episode 1 of season 2, Dr Nick Maguire, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at The University of Southampton talks about what drives the feeling of burnout for people working in the homelessness sector and discusses ways in which to stop ruminating about work-related stress. 

In episodes two and three Dr Nick Maguire, Associate Professor of Psychology at The University of Southampton, talks about different types of attachment and how these early experiences manifest in adult behaviours. 

In episode five we talk to Amanda Croome, CEO at the Booth Centre in Manchester about how their day centre aims to increase the feeling of control people have over their lives. “It’s important people feel it’s their centre, not my centre or the staff’s centre” she says. , “We find that if they feel they have some choice and the ability to influence their environment they take that experience into their everyday lives.” 

In episode four we hear from Nikoletta Theodorou, who recently completed a PhD thesis at Herriott Watt University entitled ‘Multiple Exclusion Homelessness, attachment and relationship with care: A missing link?’. Her work focused on how people’s different attachment styles can affect access to services. 

In episodes two and three Dr Nick Maguire, Associate Professor of Psychology at The University of Southampton, talks about different types of attachment and how these early experiences manifest in adult behaviours. 

In Episode 1, we explore how relationship-based approaches can help homelessness services work more effectively with people who’ve experienced trauma