Biographies
Dr Angelika Wieck trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley and Bethlem Royal
Hospital. She worked as a researcher and then lecturer at the Institute of
Psychiatry conducting research on the aetiology of puerperal psychosis. She is
now a consultant in perinatal psychiatry at the Manchester Mental Health,
leading the North West Perinatal Mental Health Service and Social Care Trust,
and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester. She is also
conducting research in reproductive psychopharmacology and maternal
behavior.
Louise Wardale is Keeping the Family in Mind Co-ordinator at Barnardo’s.
She has a wide experience in social work and has worked with Barnardo’s
Action with Young Carers, Liverpool, for over 12 years and for the past 8 years
as the co-ordinator of an implementation plan for children and families affected
by parental mental ill-health. Grounded in the direct experiences of children
and young people caring for and impacted by their parents’ mental health
problems, Louise works strategically to influence change across national and
local systems, and across child and adult services. She is a member of the
Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare steering group, and a guest
contributor to SCIE Guide Think child, think parent, think family re parental
mental health and child welfare. She is well-known for the development of a
range of resource and training materials produced in partnership with children
and young people themselves.
Dr Art O’Malley BA MB BCh BAO DCH MRCGP MRCPsych Dip FRCPsych
I have worked for the 5 Boroughs Partnership Foundation NHS Trust as a
consultant infant child and adolescent psychiatrist since 2004 and became
accredited as an EMDR consultant in 2008. I have been a member of the UK
and Ireland EMDR association since 2002 and have also been a member of the
European Conference organizing committee for the London Conference and the
Child and Adolescent Committee. I have presented at our AGMs in Glasgow
and Manchester and at the European conferences in Paris and London. I have
presently widely in the fields of trauma, the developing brain, attachment
disorders personality disorders, emotional dysregulation in ADHD and ASD
diagnosis and management.
I have a particular interest in infant and maternal mental health and am a
member of the North West Regional Steering Group. I have set up a joint
parent infant mental health clinic in Halton General Hospital with my colleague
Dr Sheena Pollet. This is designed for parents of infants where there are
significant difficulties in the parent infant relationship.
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The trauma focused approach includes EMDR, Sensorimotor psychotherapy,
mindfulness and trauma focused CBT. The infant mental health is addressed
using the Watch
Wait and Wonder dyadic psychotherapy approach (WWW). I have developed a
therapeutic approach called BART which represents Bilateral Affective
Reprocessing Therapy. I am presenting a workshop on BART at the ISST-D
conference in Montreal in November.
I have been actively supervising therapists towards accreditation as both
Practitioners and Consultants. I work as part of a multidisciplinary CAMHS
team at the Thorn Road Clinic. I recently completed Mac Arthur Story stem
battery training (MSSB) under the guidance of Professor Jonathan Hill at the
University of Manchester. This can be used to assess attachment relationships
in children from 4 to 8 approximately. In Jan 2011 I was elected to the
Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Dr Kathryn Abel MA MBBS FRCP FRCPsych PhD is professor of psychological
medicine and director of the Centre for Women’s Mental Health which she
established in 2001 at the University of Manchester. She trained in Oxford and
London and undertook her psychiatry training at the Institute of Psychiatry
from 1991-2001 where she held an MRC Research Fellowship. She is an
expert on mothers, maternal mental illness and their children. She has
published widely on the mortality outcomes for offspring of mentally ill and
vulnerable parents, abnormalities of maternal sensitivity and attachment and is
developing interventions to improve offspring outcomes for mentally ill
mothers. Dr Abel has a particular interest in the influence of maternal
condition on outcomes for offspring e.g. birth weight and neurodevelopmental
outcomes following maternal exposure to a range of environmental phenomena
including bereavement stress and domestic violence.
She has published
extensively on the relationship between abnormalities of fetal growth and risk
of neurodevelopmental outcomes such as schizophrenia. She leads a number
of international collaborations in Stockholm, Oslo, Australia and Columbia
University, New York. As a senior academic, Dr Abel has ample experience of
writing and reviewing reports and applications and of working on a range of
senior boards/committees: she has been a NICE appraisal committee member
since 2008 and between 2000 and the present day, has been a member of
various DH advisory boards e.g. Gender and Equality, Overarching Group for
‘Into the Mainstream’: women’s mental health, a member of the Victims of
Violence and Abuse and the Sexual Safety boards. She is a frequent reviewer
for national and international journals and funding bodies.
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She is principle applicant or co-applicant on a number of NIHR grants
examining effects of psychotropic medication, and assessing perinatal services
for women with mental illness and their children. She has recently completed
an independent cost and clinical effectiveness evaluation of a specialist
commissioning service for DH which was highly commended. With SCIE, NICE,
NHS Evidence and DH she developed an e-learning tool to improve
reproductive (and pregnancy related) health in patients with mental illness and
is currently funded to examine its use in clinical settings. She has a wealth of
experience as a mental health clinician working with mothers and children in
the context of maternal mental illness.
Dr Irene Cormac:
Between 2003 and 2005, Dr Irene Cormac was involved in the inception,
development and delivery of The Partners in Care Campaign for Carers, which
was a joint campaign of The Royal College of Psychiatrists and The Princess
Royal Trust for Carers. With carers and mental health professionals working
together, the Partners in Care campaign raised awareness about the needs of
carers in mental health settings, and developed resources for carers about
mental health matters, as well as training materials for psychiatrists about
carers’ issues.
Dr Cormac has written an article for APT on the Physical and Mental Health of
Carers with Peter Tihanyi from The Princess Royal Trust for Carers. She has
written a Chapter on Women as Carers, for the Oxford Textbook of Women and
Mental Health and a leaflet for carers on Forensic Psychiatric Services,
available on line from the College website. With others, she has surveyed
facilities for carers in forensic psychiatric services in England and Wales,
published in The Psychiatrist.
She is an Honorary Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist at Rampton Hospital,
which is part of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust and is one of three high
secure psychiatric hospitals in England.
Dr Sheena Pollet is a psychoanalyst and also works as a consultant
psychiatrist in psychotherapy in 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
Since the mid-1980's she has developed a psychotherapy service with a
significant focus on bringing psychotherapy to families in difficulties when their
children are very young. This has involved working with the parent-infant
relationship and with parental trauma and has needed close working
relationships with local CAMH services.
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In 2010, the North West Leadership Academy awarded Sheena the
Outstanding Clinician Achievement Award for this work. Also in 2010 with an
analytic colleague, Sheena co-edited ‘The Work of Psychoanalysts in the Public
Health Sector’ (Routledge). The book includes a chapter on her parent-infant
work.
Dr Olivia Guly is a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist working within the
women’s service at Guild Lodge which provides medium and low secure, and
open rehabilitation facilities. She has been a consultant forensic psychiatrist
for almost 20 years and has worked in this capacity within secure services in
Lancashire and East Anglia.
Hannah Roscoe, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
Hannah Roscoe is a Research Analyst in SCIE’s Families and Children team.
She has led evaluation of the ‘Think child, think parent, think family’ guide.
The evaluation has worked in collaboration with six ‘implementation sites’ in
England and Northern Ireland. It has gathered evidence about what processes
and practices are effective in implementing the recommendations of the guide.
Dr Daniel Anderson works as a Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist in
Denbighshire, Wales covering inpatient and outpatient work. He maintains a
special interest in the psychoanalytic psychotherapies and runs a day hospital
for the elderly that utilizes group psychotherapy and the principles of
therapeutic communities. He has completed both the Manchester foundation
and intermediate courses in group analysis via Group Analysis North, and is
currently continuing his training to qualify in group analysis. He has a Masters
degree with distinction in Psychoanalytic Studies via the University of Sheffield,
and undertakes regular psychoanalytic practice with individuals and groups
both of working age and who are elderly.
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