Chartered Psychologist
Contact Information
- Telephone: 0161 832 9999 & 0161 834 4122
- Facsimile: 01422 825 140
- Postal address: 11 St John Street, Manchester, M3 4DW
- Electronic mail: tatham@supanet.com
- Website: www.alantatham.com
Therapy
Age Group: Adults
Approaches used: Predominantly CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy).
Also trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing)
Psychological difficulties:
All including:
- Low mood and depression
- Anxiety, stress and worry
- Panic, fears and phobias
- Obsessive compulsive thoughts, feelings and behaviours (OCD)
- Post traumatic stress and anxiety (PTSD)
- Bereavement
For further information see CV.
Area:
Personal Injury (not Criminal)
Age Group:
Adult (not children)
Instructions from:
Joint, Claimant and Defendant (see CV for recent percentages)
Examples of accidents / incidents:
- Road traffic accidents and incidents (RTA)
- Industrial accidents and incidents
- Assaults
- Other traumatic incidents or incidents with traumatic consequences
Examples of psychological effects:
- Depression, anxiety, phobias, fears, avoidance, post traumatic stress (PTSD), acute stress disorder, adjustment disorder, etc..
Brief Curriculum Vitae -
Alan Tatham -
consultant clinical psychologist
QUALIFICATIONS &
REGISTRATIONS
1971 BSc (Hons) Psychology,
University of Bristol
1974 Diploma in Clinical Psychology
(DipClinPsychol); British Psychological Society’s Division of Clinical
Psychology
Chartered Clinical Psychologist,
(CPsychol) British Psychological Society
Associate Fellow of British
Psychological Society (AFBPsS)
British Association for Behavioural
& Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP)-Accredited Psychotherapist-CBT
EMDR Trained Therapist (Eye Movement
Desensitisation and Reprocessing)
United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy-Register of Psychotherapists (UKCP)
EMPLOYMENT
Since 1990: Private practice:
Consultant Chartered Clinical Psychologist at 11 St
John Street, Manchester.
Psychological Therapist (CBT &
EMDR ) & Expert Witness (Adult).
1971 to 2004: National Health
Service as a Clinical Psychologist.
Retired as Head of Psychology,
Bolton Salford Trafford Mental Health NHS Trust, Prestwich, Manchester (over 150 staff).
SOME OTHER PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES:
Co-founder MP4: Manchester
Psychologists and Psychotherapists in Private Practice 2005 to date
Placement supervisor I lecturer,
Manchester University Clinical Psychology Doctorate Course-1976 to 2004
Placement supervisor I lecturer
/ assessor, Lancaster University Clinical Psychology Doctorate Course-1976 to
2004
Placement supervisor, Liverpool
University Clinical Psychology Doctorate Course—1997 to 2004
Chair of Salford Cognitive Behaviour
Therapy Training Centre 2000 to 2004
Strategy Group, Continuing Profess
Development Scheme Clin. Psych- Gr. Manchester. Strategic Health Authority, NHS
2002 to 2004
Clinical & Social Care Governance
Committee, Bolton Salford Trafford Mental Health NHS Trust, 1999 to 2004
Research Governance Committee, Bolton
Salford Trafford Mental Health Trust 1999 to 2004
Clinical & Social Care
Effectiveness Committee Psychology sub-group, Bolton Salford Trafford Mental
Health Trust 2001 to 2004
DOH I BPS National Assessor
for senior posts in Clinical Psychology 1990 to 1996, 1999 to 2006
Senior Management Team-Bolton
Salford Trafford Mental Health Partnership 2002 to 2003
Chair Clinical Psychology Advisory
Committee-Salford & Trafford Health Authority 1996 to 2001
Chair of Clinical Effectiveness
Committee, Mental Health Services of Salford NHS Trust, 1999 to 2001
Chair of Clinical Psychology
Sub-group Greater Manchester West Education & Training Consortium,
responsible for purchasing
of Clinical Psychology Doctorate
training throughout the North West Region, 1997 to 2000
Course Organiser, Psychology
Department, Manchester University 3rd Year Options Course, 1981 to 1999
Member of North West NHS Executive
Regional Mental Health Staff Development & Education Co-ordination Group,
1997/8
Member of Examiners Board,
University of North Wales for Clinical Psychology Doctorate,1994 to 1997
Examiner for British Psychological
Society’s Division of Clinical Psychology’s Diploma in Clinical Psychology,
1991 to 1993
Chair of the North West Regional
Committee of Clinical Psychologists, 1988 to 1991
Chair of National Special Interest
Group of Division of Clinical Psychology, British Psychological Society 1985 to
1986
(Various other offices, lectures,
seminars, workshops etc.)
EXPERT WITNESS EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING
Sweet & Maxwell Checked
Expert Witness 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009.
Law Society
Directory “checked” Expert Witness 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001,
2002, 2003, 2004.
Since 1990 Instructions received
from claimants, defendants and joint
Current: 25% joint instructions, 55%
claimants, 20% defendants
Number of reports currently
limited to approximately 24 per year
Expert Witness training:
Bond Solon Training, Haymarket,
London -1996 Courtroom Skills, 1996 Report Writing
Road Accidents and the Mind (1998
Conference), Lyons Davidson Solicitors, Bristol
Lord Woolf’s Reforms I Single
Joint Expert Witness, Thomas Sands Training, 01 June 1999
Single Joint Expert Witness, Bond Solon (London), 12 July 1999
Medical Experts’ Training, DLA Solicitors, Manchester / London 2002
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL
BODIES
British Psychological Society Associate Fellow
Member of Division of Clinical
Psychology of British Psychological Society
Member of British Association for
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies
United Kingdom Council for
Psychotherapy
Member of PSIGE Special Interest
Group of the British Psychological Society’s Division of Clinical Psychology
(National
Chairman 1985/6)
Member of Society of Expert Witnesses.
[CV last updated 04.01.09]
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