| Description | DVDR sound recording of an interview with Professor William Yule, HonFBPsS, CPsychol, Emeritus Professor of Applied Child Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, for the British Psychological Society's Oral History project.
The interview was conducted by Paul Devonshire in 2009.
Topics covered:
Running order:
Early experience predisposing to a career in psychology
Early days in psychology:
Early working career:
Working life:
Role of professional bodies in his professional life:
Mentors, other people, books, or literature which had the most influence on his career.
Memories of conferences, views of his contemporaries
Personal and family life related to, or had an impact, on his role as a psychologist.
Thoughts about his field of psychology and predictions for the future of his field.
Ends.
Total Running Time c 109 mins.
Note: A 100 page PDF document, edited and introduced by Bill Yule is available.
The document is entitled '50th Anniversary of the Maudsley Clinical Psychology Course' Institute of Psychiatry, University of London 1947-1997 Proceedings of Celebrations on 4th and 5th July, 1997'
Professor Yule's papers held at Kings Gollege Archives, Ref: GB 0100 KCLCA IOP/PP7 |
| RunTime | On one DVDR disk, running time c 102 minutes. |
| AdminHistory | Date of Birth: 20/06/1940
Place of Birth: Scotland
University and Professional Training:
BSc, Psychology, University of Aberdeen, 1962
Diploma in Clinical Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, 1963
PhD for studies of specific reading retardation, part of the Isle of Wight epidemiological studies, 1965-1968
Professional career:
Scientific Officer Medical Research Council, 1963-1964
Research Officer, Department of Child Development, University of London Institute of Education working on educational and medical survey of schoolchildren, Isle of Wight, 1965-1968;
Lecturer in Child Development, Institute of Education, 1968-1969
Lecturer in Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, 1968-1969
Honorary Principal Psychologist, Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospital, 1973
Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, 1973-1980
Senior Lecturer in Child Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, 1974-1980
Honorary Top Grade Psychologist, Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospital, 1979
Reader in Applied Child Psychology, 1980-1987
Professor of Applied Child Psychology, 1987-2005
Co-Director, School for Life project, Kiev, Ukraine, 1993-2002
Lead Clinician, National and Specialist Division, Children's Directorate of South London and Maudsley NHS Trust; 1999-2003
Honorary Psychologist Advisor to the British Army, 2000
Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2008-.
Other Honours and Awards:
Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies,2005
Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society, 2006
Awarded the Aristotle prize by the EFPA, 2007
Honorary Fellow, British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, 1984
BPS MB Shapiro Award, 1993
Professional career:
Trained as a clinical psychologist at the Institute of Psychiatry, 1962/63
Joined the Social Psychiatry Research Unit (nd)
Institute of Education for 5 years, returning to the psychology staff in 1969.
Clinical work in the Children’s Department of the Maudsley Hospital (nd)
Founding Director of Child Traumatic Stress Clinic, IoP (nd)
Involvement with BPS and/or other societies and organisations (selected):
Advisor to UNICEF during the civil war in former Yugoslavia.
Co-Founder and Chair Foundation for Children and War, a charity based in Norway (nd) Sri Lanka Trauma Group (nd)
The European Federation of Psychology Associations (nd)
Member of the Defence Scientific Advisory Committee (DSAC) (nd)
Founder Member, and former Chair, British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (former BABP), 1972
Elected to the Green Cross Foundation Academy of Traumatology, 1998
Member of the NICE Guideline Development Group on PTSD (nd) |