CV

Dr Richard Bulkeley

Curriculum Vitae

 

TITLE/PROFESSIONAL POST: Clinical Psychologist (Dr)

PROFESSIONAL DISCIPLINE: Psychologist

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

  • Chartered Clinical Psychologist.  (Postgraduate training in Psychology;  Tavistock Centre, 1971).
  • British Psychological Society – Membership No. 2083.
  • Associate Fellow of British Psychological Society.
  • Health Professions Council – PYLO 3104

SPECIALIST FIELDS

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Applied Behaviour Analysis
  • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, including psycho-education, cognitive restructuring, relaxation therapy, graded exposure and homework
  • Social Skill Development

HIGHER OR SPECIALIST DEGREE OR DIPLOMA: PhD

AREAS OF PARTICULAR MEDICOLEGAL EXPERTISE

  1. Assessment and treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (all ages).
  2. Assessing emotional trauma resulting from accidental injury (all ages).
  3. Interviewing children/offenders.
  4. Evaluation of family where abuse occurred.
  5. Risk Assessment.
  6. Effects of child sexual abuse.
  7. Assessment of development and learning disabilities.
  8. Contact issues for children post separation/divorce of parents.
  9. Assessment of children and adults for possible diagnosis of Asperger’s Syndrome. (recent specialist training undertaken in Cambridge, 2010).
  10. Assessment of sexually abusive or sexually vulnerable children and young people.
  11. Clinical Negligence (attended specialised training: Professional Solutions, June 2012).
  12. High Value cases.
  13. Assessment of contested asylum cases.

RELEVANT POSITIONS HELD AND HOW LONG:

Current: Independent Practice

Clinical Psychologist (1979 – 2006)

(CAMHS; NHS – Cambridge and Peterborough Foundation Trust)

Educational Psychologist   - 1971 – 79

Responsibility:

  • To provide comprehensive psychological assessments and therapy.
  • To carry out teaching research and audit.
  • To provide clinical leadership in psychology.

Number of cases seen for assessment: 2500 (all ages).

Number of cases seen for treatment: 1500 (all ages).

Over Period: 1971 – present.

MEDICO-LEGAL EXPERIENCE:

Number of cases seen for assessment: 500 (including 100 adult cases seen for post-accident psychological review).

Over period: 1985 – present.

(recent specialist training in medico-legal report-writing, Professional Solutions, 2012)

EXPERIENCE IN CIVIL CASES:

Claimant:     90%

Defendant:   10%

PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS:

  • Division of Clinical Psychology (British Psychological Society).
  • British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy.
  • Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice.

PUBLICATIONS:

  • Through Structural Intervention to Attitude Change.  Division of Clinical Psychology Newsletter (1984).
  • From Out of Nowhere.  Reforming Parapsychology:  Changes, 3.3 (1985).
  • Social Skills Training with Young Adolescents.  Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 19, 5, (1990).
  • Social Skills Training with Young Adolescents:  Individual Approaches in a School Setting.  Journal of Adolescence, 17, (1994).
  • Managing litigation arising in clinical work with children and families.  British Psychological Society publication (2000).
  • Sample norms for the Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale in the UK.  Child Psychology and Psychiatry Review, 6, 3 (2001).
  • Handbook for  Social Skill Development with Children and Adolescents: From Research to Practice. Independently Published, (2018)  Read more about the book here.

AREAS OF SPECIALIST EXPERIENCE (2018)

  1. Observation, Assessment, Diagnosis and Therapy with children, young   people and adults on the autistic spectrum.
  2. Therapy with children and adults suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
  3. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Social Skill Development with children, young people and adults.
  4. Social Skill Development with children and young people with Learning Disabilities.
  5. Social Skill Development with children and young people with emotional and behavioural  difficulties.
  6. Attendance at Special Educational Tribunals.
  7. Psychological consultancy to organisations.

Professional Psychologist