Miriam Weber holds a master’s degree in social work and is a qualified early-years educator. She has many years of professional experience in various educational fields, including childcare with a focus on integration and language development, educational support in schools, and residential care for young people. She currently heads the social pedagogy department at the Diagnostic and Therapeutic Day Clinic and the Parent-Child Treatment Program at the Clinic for Children and Adolescents, University Psychiatric Clinics (UPK) Basel.
Alongside her clinical work and her leadership role, she is a PhD candidate at the University of Basel. As part of her doctoral research, she is evaluating an integrative parent-child treatment program. In addition to her clinical research, she has many years of experience in child and adolescent psychiatry, social pedagogy, interdisciplinary treatment, and the development and implementation of practice-oriented treatment concepts. She is also a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW).