Welcome to The BRiC Centre (Building Psychological Resilience in Breast Cancer)
BRiC was founded by Professor Nazanin Derakshan a Professor of Psychology, with the aim to meet the unmet psychological needs of women with a breast cancer diagnosis. With medical advances more women survive breast cancer but this comes at a psychological cost as a great majority of women are left alone to cope with the psychological challenges after active treatment. They are emotionally and physically exhausted and need support and cognitive resources to rebuild their lives, to find the confidence and self-esteem that cancer took away, to find ways by which they can thrive and not simply survive. Led by recent advances in neuroscience BRiC conducts cutting edge research to build better and more effective ways to build resilience and emotional flexibility. Its interventions have proven to improve self-esteem and self-confidence as well as reducing longer term anxiety and depression. BRiC's translational arm includes its psychoeducational network (private closed facebook group) of more than 2100 women with a primary or secondary diagnosis of breast cancer. A unique feature of BRiC is its Collective Voice, a platform which voices the emotional impact of breast cancer and tips on effective coping strategies from our 2100 (and increasing) members. BRiC has been defined as 'a safe haven' 'a warm blanket' 'my place to go' 'a place which prevents me from falling into depression' and much more..... see our website briccentre.co.uk
If you want to join our private group, message us here on this page and we will get back to you.
