Doyle, Celia

Celia started her professional career as a social worker in a local authority children s team but under the 1968 Seebohm Report reforms became generic . Subsequently, she focussed on psychiatric social work then for over eleven years was a specialist in child protection employed by the NSPCC. After a break for family commitments, she acquired qualifications in psychology recognised by the British Psychological Association and became an independent play worker. Subsequently, while working as a senior lecturer in university settings she undertook research into the emotional abuse of children, wh...