drmiriamsilver
drmiriamsilver
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I'm a Consultant Clinical Psychologist working with children, young people and their families/carers in the UK. After 17 years in the NHS I left in 2011 and set up my own company. We have subsequently taken on the challenge of introducing tools to help parents, carers and professionals identify, track and support the psychological needs of children (see www.BERRI.org.uk). We hope that regular use of outcome measurement can improve the quality of services and the life chances of children who are neurodivergent and/or have experienced adversity.
You may also see me on social media, where I talk about psychology and how to support children and young people who have experienced adversity or have additional needs due to their mental health and/or neurodiversity.
I have written a book called 'Child Trauma and Attachment in Common Sense and Doodles' published by JKP, which tries to make current scientific and therapeutic knowledge about attachment and chronic developmental trauma accessible for adoptive and foster parents, residential care staff, professionals and anyone who wants to know more about this topic.
I'm a Senior Research Fellow at UCL/Anna Freud Centre, but have collaborated and supervised research in many other universities (Birmingham, Sheffield Hallam, Canterbury Christ Church). My research predominantly relates to BERRI and children in care.
I train health, social care, legal and other professionals about attachment and the impact of abuse, trauma and poor early care. Over 1000 people have attended my two-day training for residential care staff, and I’ve trained hundreds of adoptive and foster parents to "manage behaviour with attachment in mind”, as well as training other professionals to deliver this content as a group program. I’ve also done a number of keynotes, workshops and plenaries at conferences.
In my spare time, I built www.clinpsy.org.uk/forum for aspiring clinical psychologists.
I have also done a lot of expert witness work for the family courts sat on various committees and been involved in lots of policy work. However, I am trying to reduce this element of my work to focus on doing more research, training and consultancy. I have been experimenting with blogging and social media as means to disseminate psychological thinking.
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