Tony Taylor, Ph.D.

    Tony Taylor, PhD DHC (Reims), is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Victoria
    University, having previously held a Chair there in Clinical Psychology. Earlier
    he had been a Probation Officer and Prison Psychologist, and at different times,
    an Honorary Consultant in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine
    at Wellington Hospital and Wellington Clinical School. Outside these professional
    interests, for many years he had a major part in setting up and operating the
    selection system for Volunteer Service Abroad, and for monitoring the selection
    and performance of New Zealand Antarcticans, before initiating a study of the
    recovery teams after the Mt. Erebus aircrash in 1979. The latter led him to make
    a clinical, training, and research focus on the needs of different groups exposed
    to different kinds of disasters. He has published two books, shared in the author-
    ship of another three, and has a list of papers now totaling 218. Presently, he
    is a stress/trauma consultant with occasional links to the Ministries of Civil
    Defence, Defence, External Affairs & Trade, Police, Occupational Safety & Health,
    and is not unacquainted with forensic issues before the Courts. He is an Honorary
    Life Member of the Australasian Critical Incident Stress Association.

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