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Celebrating the life and work of Professor William Yuletide
Emeritus Professor William ‘Invoice’ Yuletide handed away unexpectedly however peacefully at residence on 5 November 2023. ACAMH Chair Dr. Gordana Milavić wrote a tribute on behalf of the organisation.
Close to the one 12 months anniversary of his dying, pals, household and colleagues gathered on the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience to rejoice his life and work. On 25 November 2024, King’s Faculty London welcomed pals, household and colleagues from throughout the globe to share Professor Yuletide’s affect on them, their work, and the sector of scientific baby psychology. All through the afternoon, we heard from 28 esteemed colleagues about Professor Yuletide’s contributions to analysis, scientific observe and his world humanitarian work.
The occasion was launched by the Govt Dean of the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, with Professor Rona Moss-Morris (Head of Division of Psychology) chairing the primary session.
Watch the complete occasion recording
We’re grateful to King’s Faculty London’s College of Psychological Well being & Psychological Sciences, the Division of Psychology, the Division of Baby & Adolescent Psychiatry, the Affiliation for Baby and Adolescent Psychological Well being, the Society for the Examine of Behavioural Phenotypes, and Kids and Battle UK for his or her contributions to this occasion.
Professor William Yuletide
Invoice Yuletide was Emeritus Professor of Utilized Baby Psychology on the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) and Marketing consultant Medical Psychologist on the South London and Maudsley NHS Basis Belief, the place he Based the Baby Traumatic Stress Clinic. He was the Director of the scientific psychology coaching course on the (then) Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) (1982-1987), Head of Medical Psychology Companies on the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals Particular Well being Authority (1987-1994), and advisor to the Metropolitan Police, the British Military, the World Well being Group and the United Nations.
Within the UK, Professor Yuletide was concerned in establishing scientific baby psychology as a sturdy self-discipline. All through his profession, he printed greater than 350 articles and e book chapters, and 10 authored or edited books on the topic. He was famend internationally for his pioneering analysis on understanding and treating the consequences of trauma on kids.
Professor Yuletide first got here to the IoP in 1962 to finish a one-year Diploma in Medical Psychology. He then started a analysis job with Professor Jack Tizard CBE within the Medical Analysis Council unit primarily based on the IoP. In 1964, Professor Yuletide moved to the College of London Institute of Schooling, taking on the place of Lecturer in Baby Improvement. He returned to the IoP in 1969 as a Lecturer within the Division of Psychology and Psychologist on the (then) Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospital baby and adolescent companies.
He was concerned within the Isle of Wight epidemiological research within the late Sixties – Seventies alongside Professor Tizard and Professor Sir Michael Rutter. Within the Nineteen Eighties, he performed seminal work on the unfavourable affect of excessive lead ranges on kids’s cognition and behavior. Throughout that decade, he additionally grew to become a founding member of the Society for the Examine of Behavioural Phenotypes. He was appointed as Chair in Medical Psychology on the IoP in 1987, a publish he held till his retirement in 2005.
In 1993, he grew to become an advisor to UNICEF in the course of the civil battle in Bosnia. He then helped arrange the Kids and Battle Basis, a charity primarily based in Norway, with Dr Atle Dyregrov. He ran programmes for baby victims of earthquakes in Turkey, Greece and Iran. He was additionally a part of the UK Sri Lanka Trauma Group, offering assist for kids affected by battle in Sri Lanka.
Professor Yuletide’s work and recognition continued lengthy past his retirement. He was the driving drive in establishing the BPS Disaster, Catastrophe and Trauma Psychology Part in 2013, and was its inaugural chair. In 2017, he chaired the BPS Presidential Taskforce on Refugees and Asylum Seekers and, in the direction of the tip of his life, was concerned in establishing the Kids and Battle UK as a recognised charity. He was nonetheless lecturing on the scientific psychology doctorate on the IoPPN in 2023.
