Ms Chimera in LEATHERHEAD
Expert witness in proceedings under The Children Act 1989 • Recent reports have addressed: • Assessment of attachment, quality of attachment & effect of separation • Assessment of parenting • Impact on children of parental drug use & related behaviour • Impact on children of parental violence • Sibling attachment & placement decisions • Family dynamics & ability to change • Contact disputes • Therapeutic assessments, including potential for change
Mr Hughes in ST HELENS
Assessment of ability • Adults • Children • Criminal • Capacity to participate • Police interview • Special measures for court proceedings • Understanding of caution & documents • Fitness to plead & instruct • Vulnerable witnesses • Suggestibility, functioning & compliance • Learning difficulty & disability • Specific learning difficulty • Dyslexia • Dyspraxia • ADHD • Attention difficulties • Autism • Asperger syndrome • Adjustments & provision to support learning & employment • Psychological & education issues • Childcare • Family ...
Dr Nisbet in CHESTER
Clinical psychology as it applies to the following areas: • Child development • Family dynamics & attachment issues • Trauma & dissociation • Adolescent & child mental health • Cognitive behavioural therapy • Family attachment narrative therapy • Criminality & offending • As such, I am able to accept instructions for family law work, criminal, personal injury & private law areas
Dr Ojarikri in LIVERPOOL
Assessment of children, adolescents & parents for public & private law proceedings • Attachment • PTSD • Alcohol & substance misuse • Learning disability • Parenting assessments • Capacity assessments • Domestic violence • Self-harm • Cognitive functioning • Child & adolescent offending behaviour • Working with families of African, Caribbean heritage & other ethnic minority backgrounds, including refugees & asylum seeking families • Assessment of risk • Personality disorder • Adaptive functioning
