Sheila Hollins, Baroness Hollins

Sheila Hollins, Baroness Hollins

Sheila Clare Hollins, Baroness Hollins , (born June 22, 1946 ) is a British psychiatrist , university professor and politician .

Life

Hollins was born as the daughter of the future Captain Adrian Morgan Kelly (1915-1995) and his wife Monica Dallas Edwards. Her father was from Bristol . She attended Notre Dame High School, a Catholic girls' school, in Sheffield .

Hollins trained as a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital Medical School in London . There she completed her studies with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS; Medicinae Baccalaureus / Baccalaureus Chirurgiae ).

After completing her studies, she initially practiced as a general practitioner and family doctor in South London; However, she then shifted her focus to child psychiatry . She was a Senior Registrar at Earls Court Child Guidance Clinic and Westminster Children's Hospital from 1979 to 1981 .

Since 1981 she has worked as a doctor and professor at St George's, University of London , the medical faculty of the University of London . She was initially (since 1981) Associate Professor ( Senior Lecturer ) of Child Psychiatry with a focus on learning disabilities at St George's Hospital Medical School. Since 1990 she was Professor of Psychiatry (Psychiatry of Disability). From 1986 to 2002 she was head of the Department of Psychiatry of Disability. In addition, she was Head of the Division of Mental Health from 2002 to 2005. In 2006 she retired. Hollins is now a professor emeritus at St George's University of London.

During her university career, Hollins was twice (1993-1994; 2001-2003) as Senior Policy Advisor ( Senior Policy Advisor ) for the focus areas learning disabilities and autism to the British Department of Health, seconded. She was also a member of the Minister's Advisory Group on Learning Disability (1999–2001).

After retiring, Hollins had been a specialist in child psychiatry for almost 30 years. As a scientist, she investigated the clinical and social aspects of the mental and physical health of people with learning disabilities, with a special focus on grief and death , palliative care and sexual abuse . In addition to her academic work, she was from 1982 to 2006 also in South West London as a specialist in psychiatry ( Consultant Psychiatrist ) operates. Your research results have decisively influenced teaching and medical practice.

She was a member of numerous national advisory bodies, such as the National Learning Disability Taskforce (2001-2004) and the Independent Inquiry into Access to Healthcare for People with Learning Disabilities (2007). She was President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists from 2005 to 2008 ; since 2003 she had already been vice-president there.

Since 2008 she has chaired the Euro Steering Group of the World Health Organization (WHO) with the aim of developing a universally binding declaration and an action plan for the health of children and young adults with learning disabilities.

From June 2011 to June 2012 she was President of the British Medical Association.

She is also the Chair of Beyond Words, an interest group and aid organization that promotes the use of images and photographs in order to talk to people with learning disabilities and young people who do not know how to read about their health and well-being.

Membership in the House of Lords

On November 15, 2010, Hollins was named a Life Peer . She bears the title of Baroness Hollins, of Wimbledon in the London Borough of Merton and of Grenoside in the County of South Yorkshire. In the House of Lords she sits as CROSSBENCHER .

Her appointment as a Life Peer was announced on October 5, 2010 by the House of Lords Appointments Commission. The appointment recognizes Hollins' achievements and scientific contributions to the issues of mental health and learning disabilities in the UK.

Her political interests include health and social welfare , welfare , health care reform and the upholding of human rights for people with learning disabilities.

Publications

Hollins has published several books with the topics of mental health ( Mental Health ) and learning disabilities, including mental handicap: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach (editor, with M. Craft, J. Bicknell, 1985), Going Somewhere - Pastoral Care for People with Mental Handicap (with M. Grimer, 1988), Understanding Depression in People with Learning Disabilities (with J. Curran, 1996), and Understanding Grief (with L. Sireling, 1999).

Her best-known publications include Books Beyond Words , a series of books on health and society for adults with reading difficulties . She is the editor and co-author of over 30 books in the Books Beyond Words series: When Dad Died and When Mum Died (two books with L. Sireling, 1990), Jenny Speaks Out (with V. Sinason, 1992), Bob Tells All (with V. Sinason, 1992), Hug Me, Touch Me (1994), Getting on With Epilepsy (with J. Bernal, 1999), George Gets Smart (with M. Flynn and P. Russell, 2001), Mugged ( with V. Sinason, 2002) and Am I Going to Die? (with I. Tuffrey, 2009).

She wrote the book You and Your Child: Making Sense of Learning Disability (2005) together with her husband, the educator and educationalist Michael Hollins.

Hollins is also the author of numerous scientific, peer-reviewed articles and specialist publications on mental health and learning disabilities.

Awards, honors and memberships

She is Honorary Chair of the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Durham .

She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (1998), Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatry (since 1978), Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians , Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and Fellow of Medical Women's Federation.

Private

Sheila Hollins has been married to Martin Prior Hollins (* 1944) since 1969. The marriage had four children, a son and three daughters. Her oldest daughter is also a psychiatrist. Hollins' hobbies include family , walking, and music .

Web links

• Baroness Hollins - Biography (House of Lords)
• The Baroness Hollins - Biography (Debretts)
• Baroness Hollins - Voting Behavior (The Public Whip)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} The Baroness Hollins biography at Debretts (available online)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} HOLLINS, Prof. Sheila Clare in: London Gazette of November 18, 2010
3. ↑ ^{a b} Professor Sheila the Baroness Hollins ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Biography (Official Website of the British Medical Association) 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Professor Sheila Hollins appointed to the House of Lords  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Biography and appointment announcement (Official website of St George's, University of London, October 5, 2010)  
5. ^ Sheila Claire Hollins, Baroness Hollins on thepeerage.com , accessed August 20, 2015.
6. ↑ New Members who will join the House of Lords (Official website of the House of Lords ; accessed December 4, 2012)