Susan Young教授是一名註冊臨床及法醫心理學家，以及在臨床學術界擁有超過25年工作經驗的執業臨床神經心理學家。她自2017年底離開臨床學術界，全職從事私人執業，擔任Psychology Services Limited及Psychology Innovations Limited的董事，提供心理教材、資源和臨床 /與評估和治療患有精神健康問題和/或神經發育障礙的兒童、青少年和成人等相關法醫服務。
Susan在臨床心理學（例如與精神病和精神障礙患者合作）、法醫心理學（例如與罪犯合作、提供法醫評估和在法庭上提供證據）、神經心理學（例如與創傷性腦損傷患者合作）、神經發展障礙（例如與ADHD及自閉症患者合作）等方面擁有大量專業知識。她曾在精神病學研究所、帝國學院、南倫敦和莫茲利信託 (SLAM) 以及布羅德莫醫院等擔任臨床學術職位，曾是西倫敦心理健康信託基金的法醫研發主管，現在是雷克雅未克大學心理學名譽教授。
Susan參與國際研究合作，並發表逾200篇文章，包括行內評審研究論文、書籍、書籍章節、評估工具和治療計劃，其中包括ADHD兒童和成人的ACE/ACE+臨床評估（有22種語言提供）、診斷自閉症譜系面談（DASI – 有5種語言提供）以及為所有年齡患有認知行為、情緒、社交及/或行為等問題的患者，開發5個認知行為治療計劃。她又定期開設有關工具及程序的國際培訓課程。
Professor Susan Young, BSc (Hons), DClinPsy, PhD, CSi, AFBPS, is a registered clinical and forensic psychologist, and a practitioner clinical neuropsychologist with over 25 years experience working in clinical academia. Since leaving clinical academia at the end of 2017, Susan has worked full time in private practice as the director of Psychology Services Limited (www.psychology-services.uk.com) and Psychology Innovations Limited, providing psycho-educational materials, resources and clinical/forensic services relating to the assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and adults with mental health problems and/or neurodevelopmental disorders.
Susan has a great deal of expertise specializing in clinical psychology (e.g. working with people with mental illness and disorder), forensic psychology (e.g. working with offenders, providing medico-legal assessments and giving evidence in court), neuropsychology (e.g. working with people with traumatic brain injury) and neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g. working with people with ADHD and Autism). She has held clinical academic positions at the Institute of Psychiatry, Imperial College, South London and Maudsley Trust (SLAM) and Broadmoor hospital. She was head of forensic R&D in West London Mental Health Trust. She is Honorary Professor of psychology at Reykjavik University.
Susan is involved in international research collaborations and has published over 200 articles in peer-reviewed research papers, books, book chapters, assessment tools and treatment programmes. These include the ACE/ACE+ clinical assessments of ADHD in children and adults (available in 22 languages), the Diagnostic Autism Spectrum Interview [DASI – available in 5 languages] and five cognitive behavioural therapy programmes developed for people of all ages who have cognitive, emotional, social and/or behavioural problems. She regularly runs international training courses in these tools and programmes
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