Dr Miriam Silver Email & Phone Number

I'm an experienced service director and Consultant Clinical Psychologist with a particular interest in parenting, attachment relationships and children who live outside their family of origin. I'm also a multi-award winning social entrepreneur who likes confounding people's expectations, see https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/i-get-joy-out-confounding-peoples-expectations. My goal is to improve outcomes for children who have experienced adversity, trauma or abuse.I have specialist expertise about attachment and parenting, and have served as an expert witness to the family court in more than 250 cases over the last 20 years, typically Care Proceedings and highly complex custody cases. I designed the BERRI system to identify track and support children's psychological needs. I also offer consultation, training, research, service development and outcome measurement services related to parenting, children's needs and attachment relationships. I'm passionate about reducing psychological distress, improving the life chances of children, and increasing the knowledge and skills of carers and systems around them. I am currently working to spread the use of data to inform children's social care, through structured psychological assessments and regular outcome measurements, and spreading learning into practice from BERRI data.For 9 years I led a specialist NHS CAMHS team supporting children who are Looked After and Adopted. I ran a neurodevelopmental clinic for many years with various medical colleagues, assessing around 5000 children and diagnosing neurodiversity (with or without a history of neglect or maltreatment).I wrote a critically acclaimed and accessible book about the impact of trauma and abuse called "Attachment in Common Sense and Doodles" in 2013. I updated/expanded it for a new edition released in February 2024.I am a senior research fellow at UCL/Anna Freud Centre and hold a significant research portfolio relating to children living outside their family of origin. I've contributed to various policy and best practice documents. I speak at conferences and provide training to carers/professionals.Specialties: Outcome Metrics. Service Development, Psychological assessment (of attachment relationships, parenting capacity, child development, mental health issues, parent-child relationships, therapeutic needs, placement choices, contact plans).

Listed skills include Mental Health, Psychological Assessment, Psychology, Psychotherapy, and 38 others.

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  The University Of Hull

  Clinical Psychology