Role
Academic Director, University of Plymouth, Doctorate in Clinical Psychology
Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust
Qualifications & background
B.Sc Hons. Psychology, University of Bristol 1978
Ph.D, University of Bristol (More than All: Children's Problems with Plural Reference) 1983
British Psychological Society Diploma in Clinical Psychology 1989
Advanced Diploma in Marital and Family Therapy, University of Exeter 1993
Professional membership
British Psychological Society, Division of Clinical Psychology and Group of Trainers in Clinical Psychology
Association of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Roles on external bodies
I am a member of the Steering Committee for the Bereavement Research Forum (a national organisation).
At a local level I give a lot of toime to support our local bereavement services. I serve as Clinical Director and Trustee for Jeremiah's Journey, a charitable Bereavement Support Service for children, young people and their families. I am also a Director for The Bereavement Counselling Service (South West) for Adults , which is currently seeking charitable status.
Teaching interests
Child psychology, with a special interest in all aspects of paediatrics, bereavement ,loss , attachment and trauma in children, young people and their families.
Core competencies in clinical psychology, with a special interest in formulation and assessment skills and reflective practice.
Family Therapy, including regular input to the Foundation Level Training Course in Plymouth ( accredited by the Association of Family Therapy)
Observational and experiential learning through offering a weekly family therapy clinic, specialising in complex paediatric cases, to a multi-disciplinary training group.
I also have an interest in educational pedagogy and the use of innovative and creative methods of facilitating learning, including the implementation of Problem Based Learning within the Community of Clinical Psychology Training and Distance learning (see also publications).
Staff serving as external examiners
I am currently acting as External Examiner for the Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology at the University of Surrey. Previously I carried out this role for the University of |Hertfordshire.
Research interests
I began my career with an interest in child language acquisition and cognitive development., hence the title of my Ph.D: 'Children's Problems with Plural Reference' . For 5 years I was a University Academic, specialising in this are of child development and published in the field, before moving on to training as a Clinical psychologist. Although my research interests remain in the area of child development, they now have much more of a mental health focus. I am particularly interested in children coping with a variety of physical illnesses and have supervised research around diabetes, cystic fibrosis and chronic fatigue syndrome. Most recently my current research is concerned with bereavement in children and young people in terms of the mediating, moderating and protective factors that influence the psychological effects of major loss. I am particularly informed by attachment theory and narrative theory and I am attempting to integrate these with current theories of grief and loss. I am particularly inyterested in how adolescents use narratives to transform their experiences of bereavement into coherent stories that help to shape their sense of identity as well as maintaining a psychologically well adjusted sense of connection to the deceased person.
Other research
I was Co-director of a HEFCE funded project for three years (completed in 2006) to develop and evaluate the use of Problem Based Learning across the Doctoral Training Programmes in Clinical Psychology at the Universities of Plymouth and Exeter. This work was disseminated nationally for the potential use by all Clinical Psychology Training programmesand led to a number of publications as listed.
Research degrees awarded to supervised students
I have supervised more than 15 research dissertations for trainees completing their Doctorate in Clinical Psychology Training at the University of Plymouth.
Grants & contracts
Creative practice & artistic projects
Publications
Stedmon,J., Mitchell,A., Johnstone,L. and Staite,S.(2003) making reflective Practice real: problems and solutions in the South West. Clinical Psychology, 27, 30-34.
Stedmon,J., Wood,J., Curle,C. and Haslam,C. (2005) Development of PBL in the training of clinical psychologists. Psychology Learning and Teaching, 5 (1), 52-60.
Curle,C., Wood,J., Haslam,C. and Stedmon,J. (2006) Assessing learning in a PBL curriculum for healthcare training. In Bryan,C. and Clegg,K., (Eds), Innovative Assessments in Higher Education . pub. Routledge: Oxon
Dallos,R. and Stedmon,J. (2006) Systemic formulation: mapping the family dance. In Johnstone, L. and Dallos,R. (Eds.), Formulation in Psychology and Psychotherapy, Routledge: Hove.
Dallos,R., Wright,J., Stedmon,J. and Johnstone,L. (2006) Integrative formulation. In Johnstone,L. and Dallos,R. (Eds.), Formulation in Psychology and Psychotherapy, Routledge: Hove.
Stedmon, J., Dallos,R. and Moss,D. (2006) Distance Learning Needn’t be Distant. In. Clinical Psychology Forum 164
Reports & invited lectures
Bereavement Research Forum Symposium, July 4th 2007 ( University of Birmingham)
'' Attachment and Bereavement in Child and Adulthood'' Dr. Colin Murray Parkes and Dr. Jacqui Stedmon
