Elizabeth Campbell (1954–2010) was a clinical psychologist from Scotland, head of both the

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, and also the European Federation of Psychology Associations. She was a specialist in developing training in clinical psychology.

Life

Liz Campbell was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1954 where she graduated from the University of Edinburgh. After training in

clinical psychology Clinical psychology is an integration of social science, theory, and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and persona ...

she completed a PhD on depression among women at the University of Oxford (1985). She then taught at the

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for some years before returning to Scotland, this time to the University of Glasgow where she became Head of the Section of Psychological Medicine and led the development of the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. She was active in the

, of which he was elected president in 2008, and also the European Federation of Psychology Associations.

Awards

* 2008 - 2009 - President,

* 2009 - Secretary General, European Federation of Psychologists' Associations

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Campbell, Elizabeth 20th-century British psychologists Presidents of the British Psychological Society Academics of the University of Glasgow Clinical psychologists 1954 births 2010 deaths Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Oxford