PSAL Associates/Strategic Partners

ABACUS Counselling, Training & Supervision

PSAL and ABACUS Counselling, Training & Supervision have worked successfully together on a number of projects including:

co-authoring the first Practitioners Guide for the gambling treatment sector (Sept 2004);

and in several research projects (2003 onwards).

ABACUS training makes it easy for both frontline and administration staff to see how the software fits into good practice e.g. providing clients with followup assessments.

The ABACUS team is very experienced in the human services sector and complement the more technical and administrative skills within PSAL.

Check out their website to learn more about them

Elizabeth Paton-Simpson - Business & Legal Advice

Elizabeth Paton-Simpson is a commercial barrister with particular expertise in privacy law. Elizabeth provides PSAL with legal and business advice.

Before going to the bar, Elizabeth advised public and private sector clients on privacy compliance and related matters at one of New Zealand's top law firms, Minter Ellison Rudd Watts. This followed nine years as a lecturer at the University of Auckland, where privacy law was Elizabeth's main area of research. Elizabeth has published articles on privacy law in leading New Zealand, British and Canadian law journals.

Dr Chris Gale - Research Ethics/Clinical Software

Dr Chris Gale is a Senior Lecturer in Psychological Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, with research interests in psychiatric and research ethics, anxiety disorders, psychosis, evidence based mental health care, psychiatric epidemiology, community survey design, and violence in the mental health care system. Chris is also a Consultant Psychiatrist for the Otago DHB.

He has been a member of the Auckland Regional (Health) Ethics Committee and is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, member of the Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research, and member of the America Association of Community Psychiatrists.

Other interests include walking, science fiction, reformed theology, music and open source software.