| Activity | Date of Birth: 12/12/1946
Education and qualifications:
Bachelor of Arts, Honours, in Philosophy and Psychology; University of Newcastle, 1970
Master of Science (Computing Science); University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1971
British Psychological Society Diploma in Clinical Psychology (included training in adult mental health, child mental
health, learning disability and neuropsychology), 1974
Elected to Fellowship of the British Psychological Society (FBPsS), 1973
Course in Health Economics, University of Aberdeen, 1994
Course on IRRT (trauma imagery rescripting and reprocessing therapy) , 2005
Cardiff University Certificate of Expert Witness Accreditation, 2006
Short course on prediction of violence using HCR20, 2008.
Professional Registrations:
Registered by the Health Professions Council as a clinical psychologist and health psychologist
Chartered psychologist, British Psychological Society (CPsychol.)
Cognitive behavioural psychotherapist, British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP)
Professional career:
Independent practice as a health and clinical psychologist, and as a cognitive behavioural psychotherapist, trading through Psynapse (Psychological Services) Limited trading as Psynapse.
part time since 1987, self employed in 2002 , sole Director in 2005
Director of Psychology Partnerships CIC Ltd (in N.E. England) and the National Centre for Applied Psychology (no dates)
Consultant Clinical Psychologist; Head of Primary Care and Health Psychology, Derwentside Primary Care Trust
(formerly Head of Psychology Services, North Durham Health Care NHS Trust; formerly Psychology Services
Manager, Community Health Care: North Durham NHS Trust; formerly District Clinical Psychologist, Durham Health
Authority), 1984-2002
Clinical psychologist (specialist in primary care), Northumberland Area Health Authority, 1974-1984
Other:
Cardiff University accredited Expert Witness since 1994
British Psychological Society UK Register of Expert Witnesses; the Expert Witness Directory.
Chair, BPS Division of Clinical Psychology 1980-1983.
Compiled by Mike Maskill, BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre
Sources: Bernard Kat's CV. |