London Professor Wins Clinical Psychology Award, UK

Main Category: Psychology / Psychiatry
Article Date: 01 Jun 2009 - 4:00 PDT

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Professor Til Wykes is to receive the 2009 M.B. Shapiro Award from the British Psychological Society's Division of Clinical Psychology. It is the Division's premier award and is made each year to a clinical psychologist who has achieved eminence in the profession.

Professor Wykes will give her Award Lecture at the Division of Clinical Psychology's Annual Conference, to be held at the Congress Centre, 28 Great Russell Street, London WC1, on 9-11 December 2009. Further information about the Conference can be found at http://www.dcpconference.co.uk.

Til Wykes is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, and Director of the National Institute for Health Research's Mental Health Research Network in the UK.

She has been involved in research on the rehabilitation of people with serious mental health problems for many years, both in the development of services and the evaluation of innovative psychological treatments. She founded and is now Co-Director of the Service User Research Enterprise, which encourages consumers of mental health services to become more involved in research.

Professor Wykes continues to be a Consultant Clinical Psychologist working on an intensive care ward within the Maudsley Hospital and also edits the Journal of Mental Health.

In 1995 she won the Division of Clinical Psychology's May Davidson Award, which is given to a psychologist who has made an outstanding contribution to the development of clinical psychology within the first 10 years of their work. Clinical psychologists work mainly in the NHS, using psychological science to help people with physical and mental health problems. M.B. Shapiro, who died in 2000, was a key figure in the development of the profession in the UK.

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British Psychological Society