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DR. BRUCE D. KIRKCALDY, MA, DrPhil, FBPsS
Certified Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist BDP (Bonn)
Certified Behavioural Therapist DGVT (Tübingen)
Director, International Centre for the Study of Occupational & Mental Health
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Areas of Interest
Curriculum Vitae
Institutes
Professional Titles / Affiliations
Publications
Curriculum Vitae
Date of birth: 17.09.1952 in Wallasey, United Kingdom
Academic degrees and Professional Training
- Graduated with Master of Arts Honours at the University of Dundee (1975)
- Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology at the University of Giessen, Germany (1985)
- Chartered Psychologist (British Psychological Society) (1989-2006)
- Fellow of the British Psychological Society (1998)
- Behavioural Psychotherapist (DGVT, Tübingen) (1996)
- Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist (BDP, Bonn) (1994)
- Certified Health Psychotherapist (Düsseldorf)
- West Midlands Society for Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy (Intermediate and Advanced Course) (1996)
- Moderator (Health Quality Circles) (2002)
Professional Positions
- Research Board of Advisors of the American Biographic Institute (1996)
- CEO of the Institute of Work and Health
- Director of the International Centre for the Study of Occupational and Mental Health (since 1997)
- Scientific Advisory Board:
Professor Yochanan Altmann, Research Professor, London Metropolitan
University, London; Ass. Prof. Dr. James Athanasou, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia; Dr. Robert J. Bischoff, Psychotherapy and Consulting, Cupertino, California, USA; Prof. Dr. Jennifer Brown, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK; Professor Cary L. Cooper, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, UK; Prof. Dr. Michael Eysenck, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK; Prof. Dr. Adrian Furnham, University College London, London, UK; Prof. Dr. Volker Hodapp, J.-W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, FRG; Prof. Dr. A. Kemp, University of Reading, Reading, UK; Prof. Dr. John Kerr, Kokushikan University, Tama City, Tokyo, Japan; Prof. Dr. Robert Levine, University of California, Fresno, USA; Prof. Dr. Maureen Pope, University of Reading, Reading, UK; Prof. Dr. Golnaz Sadri, California State University, Fullerton, USA; Dr. Dieter Schwartz, Institute for Rational-Emotive & Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Würzburg, FRG; Dr. Georg Siefen, Westfalia Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Marl-Sinsen, FRG; Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Trimpop, Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, FRG
- Member of the Psychological Advisory Group of the British Olympic Association (1982)
- Associate, Human Factors International, London
- Editorial Board of the Journal of Managerial Psychology, International Journal of Sport Psychology (ex), International Journal of Child Health and Human Development, International Journal of Child and Adolescent Health and International Public Health Journal.
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Occasional reviewer for several prestigious scientific journals (European Journal of Personality; Social Science and Medicine; Personality and Individual Differences; Journal of Organisational Behaviour; International Journal of Sport Psychology; Journal of Managerial Psychology; Perceptual and Motor Skills; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology; Personnel Review; European Review of Applied Psychology, Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology; Stress Medicine; Journal of Occupational Health Psychology; Stress, Anxiety and Coping; Journal of Adolescence; Current Medical Literature: Psychiatry; International Journal of Child Health and Human Development; International Journal of Child and Adolescent Health, and International Public Health Journal)
Institutes
In more than 25 years of professional practice I worked for several international Teaching- and Research-Institutes, e.g.:
- University Birmingham
- (Psychogenetics of anxiety and stress),
- Düsselthaler Anstalten
- (Psychosocial service),
- Psychological Institute of the German Sport University Cologne
- (Biofeedback and stress-coping),
- Rehabilitationcentre at the University Cologne
- (Psychological diagnostic und rehabilitation of psychiatric patients),
- Poznan University of medical sciences
- (Guest lecturer for clinical psychology and psychopathology),
- Institute for Psychotherapy und Psychosomatics at the University Clinic Cologne
- (Medical psychology and oncological research),
- Honorary Research Consultant,
Westphalia Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Marl-Sinsen
- (Structural analysis of the interdisciple clinic staff and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy),
- Ruhr-University Bochum
- (Prevention and rehabilitation; Industrial- and Organizationalpsychology ),
- University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
- (Occupational stress and psychological sanity),
- International Police Association
- (Stress-coping),
- University College London
- (Medical study: attitudes towards medicine and health),
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena
- (Analysis and prevention of operational traffic accidents of physicians and employees;
by order of the "Berufsgenossenschaft Gesundheitsdienst und Wohlfahrtspflege" (BGW)),
- Amnesty International
- Medical-Psychologists Section, FRG (since 1980)
- International Centre for the Study of Occupational and Mental Health
- Founder
- Private Psychotherapy practise
- Psychotherapy and psychodiagnostic, hypnotherapist
- International Institute for Work and Heath
- Director, Headquaters: Düsseldorf and Jena
Honorary Entries
- The Marquis Who's Who in the World (1998)
- International Who's Who in Medicine (1995/96)
- 2000 Outstanding Scientists of the Twentieth Century (2000)
- World List of Forensic Science Laboratories & Practices (2001)
- World Handbook of Sport Psychology
Areas of Interest
The links lead to some of my publications.
- Clinical Psychology
- (Clinical hypnotherapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy)
- Occupational Psychology
- (Occupational stress, Cross-cultural management, Work-leisure relationships)
- Sport psychology
Child and Adolescent Psychology
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Areas of interest in psychotherapy:
Research and treatment of:
- Anxiety states, panic and generalised anxiety disorder;
- somatic problems (tensional headaches, sleep disorders, chronic pain);
- phobic disorders;
- obsessional disorders;
- depression;
- eating disorders.
My work contents of psychotherapy and guidance, teaching, research and the publication
of academic papers in the fields of Health- and Clinical Psychology.
In this connection I published approximately 160 academic articles, e.g. in the following journals:
I´m the author of several questionnaires, e.g.:
- "Kulturschockinventar" / "Culture Shock Inventory"
- (with Professor Adrian Furnham, University College London),
- "SBUS"
- (Fragebogenskala zur Erfassung des subjektiven Belastung und Unzufriedenheit mit Dr G. Weyer und Professor Volker Hodapp, University Düsseldorf),
- "Attitudes towards health and medicine"
- (with Professor Adrian Furnham) and
- "Indicator for occupational stress"
- (with Professor Cary L. Cooper).
Last edited: July 2009
