Sami Timimi
Sami Timimi is a British psychiatrist who is a consultant in Child and adolescent psychiatry at Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and a visiting professor at the University of Lincoln. He is Director of postgraduate education for the NHS in Lincolnshire.[1]
Timimi grew up primarily in Iraq until the age of 14, then due to political difficulties moved to England; his mother is English and his father Iraqi. He has written of his experience in psychiatric training and practice.[2]
Timimi is patron to the charity Carefree Kids and has authored several books including 'A Straight-Talking Introduction to Children's Mental Health Problems'.[3] He gained an NHS England Regional Innovation Fund award for leading on an Outcome Orientated Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (OO-CAMHS) project.[4] He is a member of the Council for Evidence Based Psychiatry which focuses on adverse effects of medications.[5]
Timimi uses group psychotherapy focused on building relationships, using some techniques from The Nurtured Heart Approach.[6][7]
Publications
- Sami Timimi, (2011) "Globalising mental health: a neo‐liberal project", Ethnicity and Inequalities in Health and Social Care, Vol. 4 Iss: 3, pp. 155 - 160. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17570981111249293
References
- ^ School of Health and Social Care: Visiting Professors University of Lincoln, Retrieved 01 August 2016
- ^ Pathological Child Psychiatry and the Medicalization of Childhood 2002/2014 by Sami Timimi. Chapter one: On becoming a child and adolescent psychiatrist: a personal account]
- ^ Carefree Kids: Out people
- ^ Culture and Equality in Mental Health: Sami Timimi
- ^ Council For Evidence-Based Psychiatry: Members Retrieved 01 August 2016
- ^ ADHD: 'Being different is not an illness' The Independent, William Sutcliffe, 21 September 2015. Note: The article's link to International Critical Psychiatry Network seems to be outdated.
- ^ Nurtured Heart tempers ADHD InMind, December 2011, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Trust