| Activity | Date of Birth: 02/11/1944
Place of Birth: St Andrews, Scotland
Education and qualifications:
BSc (Hons) Psychology, University of Aberdeen, 1967
PhD University of Edinburgh, 1972
Certificate of Further Education (Distinction), Jordanhill College, Glasgow
Professional Career:
2000-2005 Director of Research, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Napier University
1995 -2000 Senior Lecturer in Behavioural Sciences, Dept of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Dundee
1993-1995 Senior Lecturer, Dept of Management and Social Sciences,
Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh
1987-1993 Lecturer, Department of Management and Social Sciences
Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh
1975-1987 Senior Research Officer, MRC Reproductive Biology Unit,
Edinburgh (part-time)
1971-1975 Lecturer, Department of Biological Sciences, Napier College, Edinburgh
1967-1971 Research Associate, Department of Zoology, University of Edinburgh
Membership of professional bodies
1967 Graduate Member, British Psychological Society
1989 Chartered Psychologist
1993 Health Psychology Practitioner
1994 Associate Fellow British Psychological Society
1998 Fellow British Psychological Society
1998 Chartered Health Psychologist
Involvement with BPS and other organisations:
Editorial boards
1987- Editorial Board Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology
1995- Editorial Board Psychology, Health and Medicine
1995- International Advisory Board Journal of Reproductive and Infant psychology
1998-2002 Editorial Board, Psychology, Evolution and Gender
Committees
1982-1986 Chairman, Society of Reproductive and Infant Psychology
1986-1989 Executive Committee Member
Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology
1986-1988 Executive Committee Member
Marcé Society (Motherhood and Mental illness)
1986-1991 Review Editor, Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology
1988-1991 Secretary, Marcé Society
1988-1992 Committee Member, Psychobiology Section,
British Psychological Society
1990-1994 Committee Member, Books and Special Projects Group
British Psychological Society
1994-1997 Assistant Editor: Books The Psychologist
1994-1997 Member British Psychological Society Committee
Teaching of Psychology to Other Professions (TOPTOP)
1995-1998 Bulletin editor Marcé Society
1995-1996 Chairman, Psychobiology Section ,
British Psychological Society
1995-1997 Committee member, Special Group in Health Psychology,
British Psychological Society
1995-1999 Council member British Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology
1999-2001 Chair elect Council member British Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Andrology
1998-2000 Honorary Secretary Division of Health Psychology,
British Psychological Society
1998-2000 Committee member Admissions Committee British Psychological Society
1999-2000 Chair Scottish Universities Medical Schools Behavioural Science Committee
1998 Member SIGN guideline Management of Post-natal depression
development group
1999-2006 Member Scottish Branch Committee British Psychological
Society
2001-2006 Member Scottish Office Steering Group British Psychological
Society
2001-2003 Chair British Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Andrology
2002 Member DoH Health Development Agency Breastfeeding Reference Group
2002 Invited member of SPICEpc Guidelines for postnatal depression group RCGP Scotland
2003 Invited member of the SEHD Short Life Working Group (SLWG) on Perinatal Mental Illness (incl. PND).
2003-2006 Chair of Breastfeeding Expert Group of Early Years National Learning Network. NHS Health Scotland.
2003-2006 Vice Chair Committee for Applied Psychologists in Health (CAPISH)
2003-2006 Member Chief Medical Officer Psychology Advisory Board
2003-2006 Member NHS Education Scotland Psychology Advisory board
2004-2006 Chair Division of Health Psychology Scotland
British Psychological Society
2005 Invited member of the National Strategy for Clinical Audit Short
Life Working Group NHS Quality Improvement Scotland
2005 The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) Expert database member
2005 Convenor CMO Psychology Advisory Board Short life working group on research strategy in the NHS in Scotland
International
1987-1989 Member of Scientific Committee, 9th International Congress of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Amsterdam
2001 Member International committee of Symposium on 1st World Congress on Women's Mental health. Berlin March 2001
2000-2001 Member International Advisory Board, 4th International Symposium on women's health and menopause. Washington DC May 2001
2002-2004 Member International committee of 2ndWorld Congress on Women's Mental health. Washington March 2004
2002-2004 President-elect International Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and gynaecology
2003 International Advisory Board of the 5th International Symposium on "Women's Health and Menopause" Florence 2004
2004 Chair International Committee International Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology IVX Congress
2004-2007 President- International Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics
and Gynaecology
2007-2010 Past President- International Society of Psychosomatic
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
2007 Member International committee of 3rd World Congress on Women's Mental Health. Melbourne Australia November 2007. |
| PublishedWorks | Selected:
Books:
Alder B 1994 Theme Editor in "Behavioural Science Nursing Practice-Hospital and Home" eds. Alexander, M. Fawcett, T. and Runciman, P., Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh
Alder Beth 1995 The Psychology of Health: a textbook for health professionals. Reading: Harwood Academic Publishers
Porter M, Alder B, and Abraham C (eds) 1999 Psychology and sociology applied to medicine An Illustrated colour text Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone
Alder Beth 1999 The Psychology of Health: a textbook for health professionals. Reading: Harwood Academic Publishers Second edition
Alder E 1999 Motivation, emotion and stress. Open Learning Unit. Leicester: BPS Books
Alder B, Porter M, Abraham C and van Teijlingen E (eds) 2004 Psychology and sociology applied to medicine An Illustrated colour text Edinburgh: 2nd edition Churchill Livingstone
Alder B, Porter M, Abraham C and van Teijlingen E (eds) 2004 Psychology and sociology applied to medicine An Illustrated colour text Edinburgh: 3rd edition Churchill Livingstone
Book Chapters:
Chapters in books:
Alder EM 1983 Postpartum changes in mood and sexuality and some implications of care. In: Maternal and Infant Health Care ed M Houston. Recent Advances in Nursing series Churchill-Livingstone
Alder EM 1984 Psychological aspects of AID. In: Psychological aspects of genetic counselling eds A Emery and I Pullen. Academic Press
Alder E.M 1984 Sterilisation. In: Psychology and gynaecological problems eds A. Broome and L. Wallace. Tavistock
Alder E 1989 Sexual behaviour in pregnancy, after childbirth and during breast feeding. In: Psychological disorders in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Ed Oates M Clinical obstetrics and gynaecology, Bailliere Tindall, London 3 805-821
Alder B 1993 Contraception. In: The Health Psychology of Women ed Niven C and Carroll D Reading Harwood Academic Publishers 145-155
Alder B 1994 The psychobiology of mood and sex in pregnancy and the puerperium.' In Choi P.Y.L. and Nicolson P eds. Female Sexuality. Psychology, Biology and Social Context. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf
Bell JS and Alder EM 1994 Psychology of infertility and management In Male Infertility ed TB Hargreave London Springer-Verlag 2nd edition
Alder B 1997 Contraception In: Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine A Baum et al (eds) Cambridge Cambridge University Press 417-419
Alder, B. (1998) Reproductive and Obstetric Issues In A.S. Bellack & M Hersen (Eds.), Comprehensive Clinical Psychology (Vol 8 pp. 383-407). Oxford: Pergamon
Alder B 1999 What is personality? In Porter M, Alder , B Abraham C eds Psychology and sociology applied to medicine An illustrated colour text Edinburgh Churchill Livingstone
Alder B 1999 Adulthood and mid-age, In Porter M, Alder , B Abraham C eds Psychology and sociology applied to medicine An illustrated colour text Edinburgh Churchill Livingstone
Alder B 1999 The experience of hospitals, In Porter M, Alder B, Abraham C eds Psychology and sociology applied to medicine An illustrated colour text Edinburgh Churchill Livingstone
Alder B 1999 How do we learn? In Porter M, Alder , B Abraham C eds Psychology and sociology applied to medicine An illustrated colour text Edinburgh Churchill Livingstone
Alder B 1999 Reproductive issues In Porter M, Alder , B Abraham C eds Psychology and sociology applied to medicine An illustrated colour text Edinburgh Churchill Livingstone
Alder B 2000 The perimenopause. In Mood Disorders in Women edited by Steiner M Yonkers K and Eriksson E. London:Dunitz
Alder EM 2002 How to assess quality of life -problems of methodology. In Hormone Replacement Therapy and Quality of Life ed Schneider HPG London Parthenon Publishing Group
Alder, B 2003 Reproductive health Ch 19, pp368-386 In: Handbook of Clinical Health psychology ed S Llewelyn and P Kennedy Chichester John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Alder B 2004 What is personality? In Alder B, Porter M, Abraham C, van Teilingen E. eds Psychology and sociology applied to medicine An illustrated colour text 2nd edition Edinburgh Churchill Livingstone
Alder B 2004 Adulthood and mid-age, In Alder B, Porter M, Abraham C, van Teilingen E eds Psychology and sociology applied to medicine An illustrated colour text 2nd edition Edinburgh Churchill Livingstone
Alder B 2004 The experience of hospitals, In Alder B, Porter M, Abraham C, van Teilingen E eds Psychology and sociology applied to medicine An illustrated colour text 2nd edition Edinburgh Churchill Livingstone
Alder B 2004 How do we learn? In Alder B, Porter M, Abraham C, van Teilingen E eds Psychology and sociology applied to medicine An illustrated colour text 2nd edition Edinburgh Churchill Livingstone
Alder B 2004 Reproductive issues In Alder B, Porter M, Abraham C, van Teilingen E eds Psychology and sociology applied to medicine An illustrated colour text 2nd edition Edinburgh Churchill Livingstone
Alder B 2004 Quality of life In Alder B, Porter M, Abraham C, van Teilingen E eds Psychology and sociology applied to medicine An illustrated colour text 2nd edition Edinburgh Churchill Livingstone
Alder B 2004 Complementary therapies In Alder B, Porter M, Abraham C, van Teilingen E eds Psychology and sociology applied to medicine An illustrated colour text 2nd edition Edinburgh Churchill Livingstone
Alder EM 2004 Adequately assessed quality of life pp49-53 In Schneider HPG and Naftolin F eds Climacteric medicine- where do we go? London: Taylor and Francis
Alder Beth 2007 Contraception In S. Ayers, A. Baum, C. McManus, S. Newman, K. Wallston, J. Weinman & R. West (Eds) Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine (2nd Edition). Cambridge UK: Cambridge University
Compiled by Mike Maskill BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre.
Sources: Beth Alder's CV |