Adult cognitive and personality assessment, including own family history in relation to ability to parent • Cognitive assessment of adults to determine competence, identify learning difficulties and disabilities, and make recommendations • Educational and emotional or behavioural assessment of adults and children, including abused, neglected and at risk children • Assessment of attachment and bonding in families • Assessment of parenting, including in the context of child care proceedings • Alcohol and drug abuse as pertaining to parenting ability • Domestic...

Mental illness • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Family law • Testamentary capacity • Court of Protection • Forensic psychiatry • Mental Health Act • Psychotherapy • Road traffic accidents • Mental Health Review Tribunals • Immigration • Personal injury • Clinical negligence • Employment law • Member of Council of the Medicolegal Society • Member of the Independent Doctor Federation sitting on the Education Committee

A Paediatrician and Psychotherapist experienced in working with young people and families, particularly with respect to child neglect and protection, family disturbance, substance abuse and domestic violence. A leading authority on adolescence and teen pregnancy and have worked with psychopathic personalities, disorders such as borderline personalities, learning disabilities and with children in situations of physical, emotional and sexual abuse, as well as factitious illness (Munchausen)-type syndromes. Also worked with refugees and asylum-seeking youth. I am regularly used by the cou...