Margot Brink, Ph.D.
Address (home): Willow House
Spinks Lane, Witham, ESSEX,
CM8 1EP, United Kingdom
AND
Address (work): Oaktree Manor Hospital, Heath Road, Tendring, Clacton-on-Sea
ESSEX CO16 0BX, United Kingdom
Email (home): margot.brink1@gmail.com
Email (work): margot.brink@partnershipsincare.co.uk
Margot Brink started off her formal preparations for the world of work
with a degree in Law, but later qualified as a Counseling Psychologist
(Masters in Counseling Psychology, 1995, the University of Pretoria,
South Africa). She spent much of her life, prior to qualifying as a
psychologist, as a volunteer in various areas of the society she
contributes to. Margot completed a M.Th. in Narrative Therapy, with a
strong influence of feminist thinking and liberation theology
underpinning and informing her writing (Masters in Theology, 2003,
University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa). The latter Master’s
degree was very practical in its application and she then sought a
Ph.D. program that would further inform her strong attachment to Social
Construction, but would also allow a practical and practice-based
approach to research.
Margot found a home for her research hopes and dreams at the TAOS
Institute. She has completed her Ph.D., with Prof. Sheila McNamee as her
supervisor, during 2011. The field of interest she inquired into during
the course of her dissertation was about the experience of being a
human migrant and what meaning making human migrants attach to their
experience of migration. She migrated to the UK during 2004 and has
since been involved with working in residential settings (hospitals)
where adults, whom have been sent to a residential setting by the court
(forensic) for care and rehabilitation, live. These residents
(patients), both male and female, primarily have a way of being in the
world (learning disability) which they share. Many of the female persons
she works with share another way of being in the world (diagnosis –
Borderline Personality Disorder). One of the ways in which persons with
this way of being in the world is offered assistance (treatment) is by
means of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT, Linehand, 1993a &
1993b). Another of her descriptors, is as a DBT practitioner. She
currently is especially interested in two areas: (1) How does she, with
her strong attachment to Narrative Therapy and Social Construction, and
her affiliation with a strongly medical model enterprise, along with a
strongly behaviouristic model (DBT), make the world(s) of one welcoming
to the world(s) of the other? (2) Her second interest lies with human
migration. She is currently exploring opportunities to become involved
with the presentation of human migration from the Middle Eastern
Countries and how it is that she may contribute to a society where
migrants’ voices are heard in ways that are inclusive rather than
exclusive; where they have a say in co-authoring their new world(s).
