Personalia
Prof. Anne Margriet Pot
Professional interests
Anne Margriet Pot is Professor of Geropsychology at the Department of Clinical Psychology, VU University Amsterdam. She has been active in the field of Psychology and Aging for 20 years, not only in scientific research, but also in academic education and clinical practice.
Her research is focused on frail older people and their caregivers. At the Department of Clinical Psychology she will develop evidence-based interventions for these target groups. She has published widely in this field in professional and scientific journals and most recently she has served as first editor of the Handbook Geropsychology (In Dutch: Handboek ouderenpsychologie). She actively stimulates vocational training for geropsychologists in the Netherlands and is involved in organizing scientific national and international congresses on Psychology and Aging.She has been tutor and supervisor of nursing home physicians, social geriatricians and psychologists working in the care for older people and has been practising as a clinical psychologist in nursing homes and an outpatient psychiatric hospital.
Anne Margriet Pot is also head of the Program on Aging of the Netherlands Institute on Mental Health and Addiction. She is registered as a clinical psychologist and health care psychologist. She is member of the Board of Directors of the International Psychogeriatric Association.
Teaching
Anne Margriet Pot currently teaches Geropsychology as part of the Master Clinical Psychology
Linda Clare, MA, MSc, PhD, CPsychol
Linda Clare is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology in the School of Psychology, Bangor University, UK, and is a chartered clinical psychologist and clinical neuropsychologist.She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Cambridge, undertook clinical psychology training at University College London, and worked in psychiatric and neurological settings within the National Health Service before taking up a research position in the rehabilitation research group at the Medical Research Council Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, where she completed her PhD under the supervision of Professor Barbara A. Wilson.
In 1999 she took up a lectureship with the postgraduate clinical psychology program in the Department of Psychology, University College London. She moved to BangorUniversityas Senior Lecturer in 2004, and has been a Professor in the Schoolof Psychologyat Bangorsince 2008.
Her research program focuses on older people and people with dementia, with a particular emphasis on understanding neuropsychological and psychological aspects of experience and behavior in the context of progressive cognitive impairment and mental health difficulties arising in later life, and on the potential for prevention and rehabilitation of disability in later life and dementia. She has pioneered the application of cognitive rehabilitation approaches for people with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease, and her book ‘Neuropsychological Rehabilitation and People with Dementia’ was published in 2007. She has conducted a substantial series of studies on awareness among people with dementia.
Current work also includes the effects of bilingualism on the onset and progression of Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, rehabilitation of executive function, the impact of neuropsychological impairment on self and identity, and interventions to improve quality of care in residential settings. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and has co-edited a number of books. She currently serves as Editor for the Cochrane Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Group, and is on the editorial board of several journals. She has supervised numerous student theses and has been invited to many countries to give talks and present workshops.
In 2003 she received the May Davidson award from the British Psychological Society for her contribution to the development of clinical psychology in the UK. She is a member of several research networks in the UKand European Union, and of national and international professional associations including the British Psychological Society, the Gerontological Society of America, and the International Neuropsychological Society.