About us

Liz Baikie
Principal Clinical Psychologist
Royal Victoria Hospital
13 Craigleith Road
Edinburgh
EH4 2DN

Tel: 0131 5375096/7
Fax: 0131 5375141/0

Scotland PSIGE Annual Report 06-07

Download Scottish PSIGE Annual Report 06-07

2009 Meetings

2009 Meeting Downloads

Download Scottish Branch Agenda 16th January 2009

Download Scottish Branch Agenda 16th March 2009

Download Scottish Branch Agenda 19th May 2009

Upcoming events : Presentations

Thursday 29th January 2009 - PSIGE Scottish Branch CPD event :: Personality Disorders and Older People
Murray Royal Hospital, Perth, PH2 7BH :: 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.
Presentations by :-
Kate Davidson (Professor of Clinical Psychology and Director of GIPSI, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde)
Sandy McAfee (Consultant Clinical Psychologist)
This event is primarily for PSIGE Scottish Branch members, but if you are working therapeutically with older people who may have a diagnosis of personality disorder you are welcome to apply. Priority will be given to PSIGE members but if spaces are available we will attempt to accommodate non-PSIGE members who work in the NHS.

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Research

Trainee SSRP

Trainee - Lindsay McKean SSRP : An audit of the assessment of post-stroke mood disorder (pre and post-discharge)

Trainee - Vicky Thurlby SSRP : Evaluation of a Fear of Falling Group for Older Adults

Trainee - Suzanne Deas SSRP : A Multidisciplinary Perspective of the Needs of Carers

Trainee - Sally M Dewis SSRP : An Evaluation of the Dementia, Challenging Behaviour and Us Six Week Training Course.

Trainee - Anna Everatt SSRP : Cognitive screening assessments. Is there a training need.

Trainee - Bruce Downey SSRP : Referrals of Older Adults to Clinical Psychology

Trainee - Christine Braehler SSRP : Relationship between empathy and professional quality of life in psychologists working with older adults

Trainee - Donna Gilroy SSRP : An evaluation of carer's views and satisfaction with a local Memory Clinic Service

Trainee - Gillian Affleck SSRP : " We're not alone in this boat " Evaluation of a psychosocial support group for people with early stage dementia

Trainee - Jessica Hendry SSRP : Older Adults Placement 4 : An evaluation of a support group for carers of people with early onset dementia

Trainee - Kathryn Quinn SSRP : Active Ageing: Past, Present and Future

Trainee - Laura Watters SSRP : Psychological Therapies for Older Adults : An Audit of Referrals and Discharges Over a Five Year Period

Trainee Thesis

Note of a publication for a trainee thesis by Lucy Birch:-
Birch, L.S., & Davidson, K. Specificity of autobiographical memory in depressed older adults and its relationship with working memory and IQ.
British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 46, 175-186.
Visit the BJCP website page

Trainee - Kathryn Quinn Thesis : Kathryn Quinn Older People's Attitudes to Mental Illness

Trainee Thesis - Angela Bowie : Investigating Social Relationships, Depression and Hopelessness in Older People

Trainee Thesis - Jennifer Foley : Retrospective and prospective memory in healthy and cognitively impaired older adults: Using subjective and objective assessment

Trainee Thesis - A Regression Based Approach to Estimating Premorbid Functioning in The Older Adult Population Using Four Tests of Executive Function

Relevant Scottish Strategy Documents

All Our Futures
SIGN 86 [Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network]

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