Nada Dimčović
	Education
	1996 - 2000: Centre for Personal Construct Psychotherapy, London, UK. Four- year course in Personal Construct Psychotherapy.
	1987-1990: Belgrade University, Yugoslavia, Faculty of Philosophy. Ph D thesis ‘Cognitive development of visually handicapped children in the light of Piaget-ian theory’. PhD in psychology.
	1976-1980: Belgrade University, Yugoslavia, MA in Psychology.
	1962- 1967: Belgrade University, Yugoslavia. Qualified as clinical and educational psychologist.
	Working Experience
	1994 –2007: Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust, Clinical Psychology Department. Post: psychologist/psychotherapist.
	Full time post in the Adult (acute) Service (1994-1999).
	8 sessions in the Older People Service: responsible for - Neuropsychological assessment of older people. - Psychological therapies with older people. - Supervising trainees in clinical psychology and assistant psychologists (2001-2005).
	2 sessions in Psychological Therapies Service (age 16-65).
	1993 - 1994: Springfield University Hospital and Kingston and District Community NHS Trust, London. Clinical Psychology Department. Post: honorary clinical psychologist.
	1991-1993: University of Belgrade. Assistant Professor in psychology.
	1987-1991: working on Ph D thesis.
	1977-1987: Elementary School for Protection of Sight, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Working with children and adolescents with psychological problems (age 7-16): Consultations for parents and teachers
	1973-1977: Medical Centre Dr Milutin Ivkovic, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Outpatient specialist service for children and adolescents. Post: clinical psychologist.
	1968-1973: Psychiatric Hospital, Kovin, Yugoslavia Post: clinical psychologist. Working with people with severe and enduring mental health problems and those with substance abuse problems.
	Associations’ Membership
	1968 – 1987 Drustvo Psihologa Srbije (Serbian Psychological Society), Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
	1992- British Psychological Society. Registration No 70074.
	2000- UK Council for Psychotherapy. Registration No 005652UKS)
	Publications
	Oaklander, Violet (1968): Windows to our children –Gestalt therapy with children and adolescents. Real People Press. Published in Belgrade (1985) Prozori u svet nase dece; translation and introduction by Nada Dimcovic,
	Divac, M. Sedmak, T. and Dimcovic, N (1977) Popularni pacijenti u grupnoj psihoterapiji i terapijskoj zajednici alkoholicara (Popular patients in the group psychotherapy an therapeutic community of alcoholics). Psihijatrija Danas, 9;1, pp 121-130.
	Marjanovic, D., Dimcovic, N. and Nahod, S (1984). Sadrzaji i oblici saradnje poridice i skole. (Contents and forms of cooperation between family and school). Zavod za unapredjivanje vaspitanja i obrazovanja grada Beograda.
	Hrnjica,S at al. (1991) Ometeno dete (The children with special needs). Zavod za udzbenike i nastavna sredstva, Beograd.
	Dimcovic, N. (1992). ‘Why is the change in the task difficult for blind children?’ European Journal of Psychology of Education, Volume 7 No 3, 231- 244.
	Dimcovic, N. (1992). ‘Verbal competence and some other factors in the development of Piaget-ian concepts in blind children.’ British Journal of Visual Impairment, 10/2, 55-57.
	Dimcovic, N. and Tobin, M. J. (1995). ‘The Use of Language in Simple Classification Tasks by Children Who Are Blind.’ Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, Vol 89, No 5, 448- 459.
	Dimcovic, N. (2001). ‘Client’s perception of their short-term psychotherapy.’ European Journal of Psychotherapy, Counselling and Health, Vol 4 No 2, pp 249 – 265.
	Dimcovic, N. (2003). Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI): Age- related decline or an early stage of dementia? Newsletter, No 84, October 2003.
	Dimcovic, N. (2204). More on evidence-based practice in psychotherapy research. Clinical Psychology, Issue 43, November 2004.
	Dimcovic, N. (2003). Mild cognitive impairment (MCI): age related decline or an early stage of dementia? Paper presented at the PSIGE 23rd Annual Conference ‘Making Waves’, Norwich, UK
	Dimcovic, N. (2003). ‘Psychotherapy; meaning making and meaning negotiating. A case of a 67- year old man suffering from OCD’. XV International Congress on Personal Construct Psychology, Huddersfield, UK.
	Dimcovic, N. and Rossotti, N. (2004). The cut the long story short: the use of RBANS in predicting dementia. PSIGE 24th Annual Conference, Durham, UK.
	Dimcovic, N. (2004). Grieving in the old: restoration of personal narrative and the prospect of posttraumatic growth at the age of 70. Paper presented at the 7th EPCA Congress, Stuttgart, Germany.
	Dimcovic, N., Rossotti, N., Shanahan, N. and Philippou, N. ‘200+ Referrals for Psychological Therapies in Older People Service – A Service and Client perspective’. Clinical Psychology Forum.
	Dimcovic, N. & Shanahan N. ‘Neuropsychological profiles of older people with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI); are research criteria clinically useful?’ Article submitted for publication in PSIGE newsletter.
	Rossotti, N., Winter, D. and Dimcovic, N. A practical guide for personal construct counselling and psychotherapy. Willey.
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