{{Short description|British psychologist}} '''David Millar Clark''' (born 20 August 1954) is a British psychologist.
==Career== {{BLP unreferenced section|date=September 2020}} Clark was born in [[Darlington]] and studied [[experimental psychology]] at [[Oxford University]]. He trained as a [[clinical psychologist]] at the [[Institute of Psychiatry]]. He then returned to teach at Oxford University where he became a professor, then returned to the IOP where in 2000 he became head of psychology and founded the centre for anxiety disorders and trauma at the IOP and associated [[Maudsley Hospital]] along with fellow Oxford psychologists trauma-specialist [[Anke Ehlers]] and OCD-specialist [[Paul Salkovskis]].
He has been a Professor of Psychology at the University of Oxford since 2011 and is also National Clinical Adviser at the Department of Health.
==Research== His clinical research and practice has mainly focused on developing [[cognitive psychology|cognitive models]] and [[cognitive therapy]] for [[anxiety disorders]]. His research has focused on [[panic disorder]], [[hypochondriasis]], [[social phobia]] and [[posttraumatic stress disorder]].<ref>[https://www.isas.co.il/eabct2015/workshops.php?auth=9 David M. Clark: CV] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816151213/https://www.isas.co.il/eabct2015/workshops.php?auth=9 |date=2016-08-16 }} EABCT 45th Annual Congress update, 2015</ref> Clark was strongly influenced by the American [[psychiatrist]] [[Aaron T. Beck]] who made long visits to Oxford University in the 70s and 80s, whose head of psychiatry [[Michael Gelder]] strongly believed in cognitive therapy.<ref>[http://johnjayresearch.org/cje/files/2012/08/Aaron-Beck-chapter-.pdf AARON T. BECK: THE COGNITIVE REVOLUTION IN THEORY AND THERAPY] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170114213800/http://johnjayresearch.org/cje/files/2012/08/Aaron-Beck-chapter-.pdf |date=2017-01-14 }} [[Steven D. Hollon]], 2010 (http://psycnet.apa.org/books/12137/006)</ref>
Clark was instrumental, with the economist [[Richard Layard, Baron Layard|Richard Layard]], in the development and implementation of the [[Improving Access to Psychological Therapies]] programme from 2003. In 2014, with Layard, he published the book ''Thrive: The Power of Evidence-Based Psychological Therapies'', in which the authors demonstrate the potential value of the wider availability of modern talking therapies.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Thrive: The Power of Evidence-Based Psychological Therapies|last = Layard|first = Richard|publisher = Allen Lane|year = 2014|isbn = 978-1-846-14605-3|location = London, England|last2 = Clark|first2 = David}}</ref>
==Personal life== He is married to the psychologist [[Anke Ehlers]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2020}}
==Honours== Clark has won numerous awards in the UK and the USA.
He was appointed [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to mental health.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=60367 |date=29 December 2012 |page=7 |supp=y }}</ref>
In 2016, Clark was elected a [[Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences]] (FAcSS).<ref>{{cite web|title=Eighty-four leading social scientists conferred as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences|url=https://www.acss.org.uk/news/eighty-four-leading-social-scientists-conferred-fellows-academy-social-sciences/|website=Academy of Social Sciences|access-date=5 August 2017|date=19 October 2016|archive-date=6 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190606033408/https://www.acss.org.uk/news/eighty-four-leading-social-scientists-conferred-fellows-academy-social-sciences/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Footnotes== {{Reflist}}
==References== * http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/staff/profile/default.aspx?go=10813 * CLARK, Prof. David Millar’, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011; online edn, Nov 2011 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U10000006, accessed 1 Feb 2012]
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