| DatesAndPlaces | Medical Research Council, 1963-1964
University of London Institute of Education working on educational and medical survey of schoolchildren, Isle of Wight, 1965-1968;
Institute of Education, 1968-1969
Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, 1968-1969
Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospital, 1973
Institute of Psychiatry, 1973-1980
Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospital, 1979
Co-Director, School for Life project, Kiev, Ukraine, 1993-2002
South London and Maudsley NHS Trust; 1999-2003
University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2008-. |
| Activity | 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).
Sources: Bill Yule's CV.
Compiled by Mike Maskill, BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre. |
| PublishedWorks | Selected publications:
Festschrift for William Yule, Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 2005, 33, 385–387
Coping with crises in schools William Yule and Anne Gold 1993, reprinted 2006, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
The Relationship between Blood Lead Concentrations, Intelligence and Attainment in a School Population: a Pilot Study
William Yule, Richard Lansdown, Ian B. Millar, Marie-Anne Urbanowicz
Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology Volume 23, Issue 6, pages 567–576, December 1981
The Concept of Specific Reading Retardation
Michael Rutter, William Yule Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Volume 16, Issue 3, pages 181–197, July 1975
Isle of Wight Studies, 1964–1974
Psychological Medicine (1976), 6: 313-332 Cambridge University Press |