Dr. Howard Fine

Chartered Clinical Psychologist

Paediatric Neuropsychologist

Howard holds an honorary post at the Royal London Hospital where he offers specialist consultation in Paediatric Neuropsychology, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and neuropsychological assessment. Howard has considerable experience of the NHS, having previously been responsible for delivering highly specialised paediatric input to the Royal London Hospital children's services, as well as offering specialist child neuropsychological consultation services for clinicians working in the London boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Newham.

Further to his doctoral research on ‘Resilience to PTSD in Emergency Workers', Howard provided consultation to the London Helicopter Emergency Service and London Underground following the July 2005 London bombings, as well as offering specialist educative support and consultation to local Mental Health services.

Howard is a member of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office's / British Red Cross Emergency Psychosocial Support Team, responding to international disasters involving British citizens, with previous deployments to Portugal and Zimbabwe. Howard also sits on the Clinical Advisory Group for the National Trauma Networks, advising on policy and service provision for frontline trauma services.

Howard is a sessional lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London, responsible for developing courses and lecturing on the Foundations of Modern Psychology, Psychology of Child Development, Psychological Factors in Chronic Illness, Health Psychology, and the Psychology of Terrorism. He is also a visiting lecturer at the University of East London, University College London (UCL), University of Surrey, University of Hertfordshire and Canterbury Christ Church University (Salomon's), lecturing on to the Doctoral programmes on Paediatric Neuropsychology. He also contributes to the UCL MSc Clinical and Applied Paediatric Neuropsychology Training Programme (accredited by the British Psychological Society) and the British Psychological Society's Child Clinical Neuropsychology course.

Howard has appeared on the BBC 10 O'clock News consulting on Psychological aspects of terrorism, and Channel 4 programming on Child Development and education. He is also regularly Consulting Psychologist on a number of documentaries and health education programmes for the BBC, Channel 4, ITV and Sky (with recent contributions to Jamie Oliver's Dream School, Jo Frost's Extreme Parental Guidance, Cutting Edge and Panorama).

Membership of Professional Organisations
• Foreign & Commonwealth Office / British Red Cross Specialist Psychological Emergency Trauma  Support Team - Responding to International disasters involving British citizens.
• British Psychological Society (Chartered status)
• BPS Division of Clinical Psychology
• BPS Faculty for Children & Young People
• British Association of Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies

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