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Yvonne Melia is an accomplished academic and clinician in clinical psychology, currently serving as Interim Course Lead and Programme Director for the Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Staffordshire. Since joining in 2016, she has held roles including Senior Lecturer, Principal Lecturer, and Academic Director, demonstrating leadership in shaping clinical psychology training. Her expertise centers on children in care and adopted children, specializing in attachment difficulties, developmental trauma, and interventions like Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP).
Education includes a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Sheffield and postgraduate qualifications in psychoanalytic studies, research methods, and clinical neuroscience. She contributes to professional bodies such as the Group of Trainers in Clinical Psychology (GTiCP) and serves as an external examiner for doctoral programs at the University of Sheffield and Southampton.
Research interests span child mental health in social care, adolescent self-harm, and qualitative methodologies like Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). She has published extensively on topics including barriers to mental health support for care leavers, long-COVID neuropsychological triage, and family dynamics in foster care. Her work emphasizes compassionate, evidence-based practices to improve outcomes for vulnerable populations.
In addition to teaching and program leadership, Melia has contributed to clinical supervision, service evaluations, and accreditation processes. Her interdisciplinary approach integrates clinical, academic, and policy perspectives to address systemic challenges in mental health provision.
