Kim S. Golding
Kim is a consultant clinical psychologist with a longstanding interest in parenting, and collaborating with parents or carers to develop their parenting skills tailored to the particular needs of the children they are caring for. She has a special interest in supporting foster carers and adoptive parents.
Kim was involved in the setting up and evaluation of an inter-agency project in Worcestershire, UK. This team is now part of the Integrated Service for Looked After Children. The team provides support for foster, adoptive and residential carers, schools and the range of professionals around the child growing up in care. Within this service Kim has implemented a range of interventions based upon Attachment Theory and DDP principles and has carried out research exploring the use of a Consultation Service for foster carers and other professionals.
Kim is the co-editor/author of:
Golding K. S., Dent H. R., Nissim R., & Stott E. (2006) Thinking psychologically about children who are looked after and adopted. Space For Reflection. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Kim has also written a training manual for attachment based group training,
Golding K. S. (2006) Fostering Attachments with Children who are Looked After and Adopted. Training manual for a group for foster carers and adoptive parents and a book for carers and parents based on this training:
Golding K. S. (2008) Nurturing attachments. Supporting children who are fostered or adopted. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Within the UK Kim has been involved in setting up and running a special interest group for psychologists and other professionals interested in working with looked after and adopted children (CPLAAC).She also contributed to the health group advisory committee of BAAF for a number of years and whilst serving on the British Psychological Society, Faculty for Children & Young Children committee she was involved in producing two briefing papers:
Golding K.; Taylor J.; Thorp D.; Berger M.; & Stevenson J. (2004) Briefing paper: Looked After Children: Improving the psychological well-being of children in the care of the Looked After System. A guide for clinical psychologists working with or considering the development of psychological services for looked after children and their carers.
Golding K. S. (Ed) (2007) Briefing Paper: Attachment Theory into Practice.
Kim has also contributed to the development of public health guidance for supporting the physical and emotional health and well being of looked after children and young people produced by NICE/SCIE in 2010.Contact details:
ISL
The Pines
Bilford Road
Worcester
WR3 8PU01905 752819
5820 Main Street, Suite 406
Williamsville, NY 14221
Arthur Becker-Weidman, Ph.D.
aweidman@concentric.netDaniel A. Hughes, Ph.D.
dhughes202@comcast.net
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