2010 - Dr. Jim F. Orford
DR. Jim F. Orford, PhD
Now semi-retired, I have a long career behind me and have achieved a national and international reputation in the fields of addiction and community psychology.
Trained in clinical psychology and obtained PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry, London; spent mid-career years in Exeter occupying a joint NHS/University post, including directing the Clinical Psychology programme; moved to Birmingham in 1993; after five years running the clinical psychology doctorate course, has concentrated on research since the late 1990s.
My Research focus has been in the area of Addiction, including effects on the family; i.e. Gambling
I have published many articles and 13 books, the latest of which are: Community Psychology: Challenges, Controversies and Emerging Consensus (Wiley, 2008) and An Unsafe Bet? The Dangerous Rise of Gambling and the Debate we should be having (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
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