Diana Birch, MD, has extensive experience acting as an Expert Assessor and Expert Witness in a variety of
Family and Child Care Actions both civil and criminal. She is very experienced in working with young people and families, particularly in
child neglect and protection, family disturbance, substance abuse and domestic violence.
Dr. Birch is a leading authority on:
- Adolescence
- Teenage Pregnancy and Early Parenting
- Assessments - Day, Age, Emotional, Outpatient, and Community assessments
- Psychopathic Personalities
- Borderline Personalities
- Learning Disabilities
- Physical, Emotional and Sexual Abuse
- Factitious Illness (Munchausen)
- Family Conflicts such as Child Alienation
For twenty years, Dr. Birch ran a residential assessment unit where she evaluated high risk families, substance and alcohol abuse patients and dealt with an age range from babies to grandparents. She now conducts assessments on an outreach and community basis.
Dr. Birch has also worked with individuals and "private" cases such as custody disputes. The assessment work and medico legal context has meant that over 50 cases are reported on each year with equivalent court appearances. This has been formally evaluated in published work.
Dr. Birch is a:
- Member of the Academy of Experts (Checked expert)
- Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (for whom she is also an assessor for Paediatric Consultants)
- Fellow Royal Institute Public Health
- Fellow of Royal College of Physicians
- Fellow of the Society for Adolescent Medicine (USA).
Offices also in USA and Caribbean
A belief is a conviction adhered to often in the face of factual evidence to the contrary. This paper inevitably represents my beliefs moulded by my experience of working with teenagers in London and tempered by my knowledge of the work of my colleagues.
Children suffer the traumas and injustices of warfare and conflict without the ability to influence or control their circumstances. As refugees they become the flotsam of society drifting from one inhospitable country to another in search of safety. They have been with us for generations, their numbers fluctuating and their distribution changing as the adult world decides who to wage war on next.
