TUESDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2021, VIRTUAL WEBINAR
Dr. Rachel Mycroft, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Chair of the British Psychological Society Faculty of Perinatal Psychology
Rachel Mycroft is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist for Community Perinatal Mental Health Services in South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. She has extensive experience of perinatal mental health and perinatal psychological therapies, with particular expertise in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Video Interaction Guidance as applied in the perinatal period.
She has special interests in tokophobia and birth trauma and has contributed to the development of new Maternal Mental Health Services in England. She regularly delivers supervision, teaching and training across a range of settings and helped to establish the national Perinatal Clinical Psychology Training programme.
Dr. Clare Law
Director, Centre for Early Child Development, University of Lancaster
As the Director for the Centre for Early Child Development, Clare is leading the multi-agency Blackpool Better Start initiative, funded by The National Lottery Community Fund. The Centre is reframing and driving systemic change across all services for 0-4 year olds and empowering communities to support and co-design this change. Clare was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship for Early Intervention and is an honorary member of the Department of Psychiatry at Oxford University.
Dr. Lauren Wolfenden
Development Manager, Centre for Early Child Development, University of Lancaster
Lauren is a Development Manager at CECD where she focuses on trauma, trauma-informed care, mental health and policy. Lauren works strategically to design services and improve the quality of service provision for those living with mental health problems. She also continues to design and implement the town-wide trauma-informed strategy.
Dr. Ruth Butterworth
Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Altogether Human CIC
Ruth has worked in Perinatal and Early Years mental health services since 2007. She was the joint clinical lead for the Cheshire and Mersey Specialist Perinatal service until 2019 and is now setting up a Community Interest Company with the aim of sharing psychological thinking with parents, families, services and communities more broadly.
Dr. Geraldine Scott-Heyes
Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Perinatal Specialist, Royal Hospitals, Belfast Health & Social Care Trust
Dr Scott-Heyes, commonly known as Scotty, established the first perinatal mental health service in NI in 1999, developing a specialist clinical psychology service to maternity and neonatal care in the regional maternity hospital in Belfast. Clinical psychology was fully integrated from the outset, taking referrals for in-patients and out-patients from maternity and neonatal staff, working alongside them to optimise individual patient experience and influencing wider systemic developments, in addition to her clinical work. Now retired from her role as Service Lead, she continues to provide support for the service. In addition, she has been involved in developing the Business Case for 5 multidisciplinary Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Teams. With the funding signed off by the NI Health Minister in February 2021, she is now working on implementation, acting on behalf of the Regional Psychologist for perinatal mental health.
Prof Pauline Slade BSc. MSc. PhD, FBPsS.FAcSS, C.Psychol
Professor of Clinical Psychology, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, University of Liverpool
Pauline Slade is Professor in Clinical Psychology at University of Liverpool and Consultant Clinical Psychologist for Sheffield Teaching Hospitals where she runs the Birth Trauma Clinic. Previously she was Deputy Unit Director for the Clinical Psychology Unit at University of Sheffield where she was involved in establishing the clinical psychology doctoral training programme.
She specialises in developing and evaluating psychological prevention and intervention strategies particularly in the area of perinatal mental health. She has a specific interest in post traumatic stress after childbirth and in the maternity workforce. She ran the POPPY study with the Royal College of Midwives to scope and feasibility test a prevention and intervention programme for post traumatic stress in midwives and the INDIGO study with the RCOG to scope work related trauma in obstetrics.
She has published over 140 scientific papers and has obtained over £4.25 million in grant funding and has successfully supervised over 70 doctoral candidates.
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