Najia Atif
Najia is a Psychologist trained in Pakistan. She has a wide experience of working in the field of mental health and her particular interest is in the mental health of South Asian Communities.
At present she coordinates the Community Development Workers Team at the Pakistani Resource Centre and is working to improve the access of psychological services for BME communities and raising mental health awareness in the community.
As a research associate she has conducted therapeutic groups for South Asian women with depressive illness as part of the Medical Research Council funded SITARA Trial and has also participated in Wellcome Trust funded project with University of Manchester to translate and adapt a CBT based manual for intervention with depressed women into Urdu and training of health workers and mothers in Pakistan in child psychological development.
Najia is doing her Diploma in Person Centred Counselling at Manchester College.
She has co-authored an article on prevalence and social correlates of postnatal depression in Pakistan, published in the Archives of Womens Mental Health.
