Notes on Contributors

Gillian Baird is Professor of Paediatric Neurodisability at King's College London and Consultant Paediatrician in Neurodisability at Guy's and St Thomas' Evelina Children's Hospital. Her research interests have been in speech, language and communication disorders, autism and cerebral palsy.

Dickon Bevington is a child and adolescent psychiatrist in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, specializing in youth with substance use problems and multiple co-morbidities. He is Medical Director of the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families and a developer of mentalization-based treatments (MBT-Families, co-lead of AMBIT). Previous publications include co-authorship of the second edition of What Works For Whom: A Critical Review of Treatments for Children and Adolescents (Guilford, 2015).

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL. She is Deputy Director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and leader of the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Group. Her group's research focuses on the development of social cognition and decision-making in the typically developing adolescent brain.

Ruma Bose was Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the East London NHS Foundation Trust, Tower Hamlets, London, for several years. Prior to her appointment in the UK, she had worked as a psychiatrist in India. She has researched, published and taught on the subject of cross-cultural psychiatry and medical anthropology, particularly in relation to child and adolescent mental health.

Helen Bruce is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in Tower Hamlets for East London NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry. She is also an Associate Dean at the Royal College of Psychiatrists and Senior Teaching Fellow at University College, London. Her particular interests are medical education and transition to adult care.

Alan Carr is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Head of the School of Psychology at University College Dublin in Ireland. He also has a family therapy practice at the Clanwilliam Institute in Dublin. He has published over 20 books and 200 papers in the fields of clinical psychology and family therapy.

Elaine Chung is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at the Royal Free Hospital working in paediatric liaison, neurodevelopmental psychiatry and general CAMHS. She is Vice Chair of the London and South East Branch Committee of the Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH.)

Gina Conti-Ramsden is Professor of Child Language and Learning at the University of Manchester, UK. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and an Academician of the Social Sciences. Gina is interested in raising public awareness of language disorders in childhood, adolescence and adulthood. She is a founder member of the RALLI campaign to raise awareness of language learning impairments (www.youtube.com/RALLIcampaign).

Anna?Coughtrey?is a Clinical Psychologist working in the Psychological Medicine Research Team at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. Her research focuses on the integration of mental healthcare for children and young people with long-term physical illness with co-occurring common mental health difficulties, including anxiety, depression and behavioural problems.

Cathy Creswell is a Professor in Developmental Clinical Psychology and a National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Research Professor at the University of Reading. Her work focuses on the development and treatment of common mental health problems in childhood, particularly anxiety disorders, with the overarching aims of improving both treatment accessibility and outcomes.

David Dossetor is a Child Psychiatrist with a special interest in intellectual disability and autism, Director of Mental Health at Sydney Children's Hospital Network and Associate Professor at Sydney Medical School. He is head of the Developmental Psychiatry Team that has developed emotions-based social skills training for autism spectrum disorder and also the free electronic Journal for the Mental Health of Children and Adolescents with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (www.schoollink.chw.edu.au).

Linda Dowdney is a Consultant Child Clinical Psychologist who has worked extensively in child and adolescent mental health services. She has a particular interest in the impact of bereavement upon children's well-being. She was Head of the Doctoral Clinical Psychology course at the University of Surrey, and an honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London.

Kevin Durkin is Professor of Psychology at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. His research interests span areas of developmental and social psychology, including the development of language and communication in typical and atypical children, media use by young people, problem behaviour in adolescence, and social adjustment in young adults with language impairment.

Pasco Fearon is both a developmental and a clinical psychologist. He is joint Director of the Doctoral Clinical Psychology training programme at University College London. His research focuses on understanding how children's social and emotional development, and mental health difficulties are influenced by parent-child interactions, attachment relationships and biological and genetic factors. He contributes to a range of clinical studies focusing on the development of mental health interventions for parents, infants and young children.

Peter Fonagy is Head of the Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London; Chief Executive of the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families; and National Clinical Lead of NHS England's CYP IAPT programme. His clinical and research interests centre on the development and dissemination of evidence-based psychotherapeutic treatments for children, young people and adults, as well as issues of early attachment relationships, social cognition, borderline personality disorder and violence.

Paolo Fusar-Poli is a Consultant Adult Psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and leads the largest European clinical service for those at clinical high risk for psychosis. He is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College, London. His research focuses on the assessment and treatment of individuals at risk for psychosis and on youth mental health. Paolo has been recognized as one of the most influential scientific minds in the 2015/2016 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers.

Elena Garralda is Emeritus Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Imperial College London and Honorary Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist with the CNWL Foundation Trust, London, UK. Her clinical and research interests include the interface between physical and mental health in children and young people. She is involved in the 11th revision of mental disorders in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD).

Jane?Gilmour?completed her PhD and DClinPsy at University College London, where she has senior teaching fellow and clinical lecturer roles. Her publications reflect her research interests, including growth disorders, appetite dysregulation, neuropsychology and neurodevelopmental disorders. She also works as a clinical psychologist developing interventions for children and families who have neurodevelopmental conditions, particularly autistic spectrum disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder and Tourette's syndrome.

Danya Glaser, previously a developmental paediatrician, is Honorary Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, and Visiting Professor at University College London. Within the field of child maltreatment she is a clinician, researcher and teacher, and has written widely. She is a past president of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN).

Julia Gledhill is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in Harrow CAMHS and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College. Her research has focused on the outcome and management of adolescent depressive disorders in primary care, with her MD thesis investigating the outcome of depressive disorder and subsyndromal mood symptoms in adolescents consulting their GP. Her other research interests have focused on psychiatric outcome for children and parents following acute life-threatening illnesses and paediatric intensive care unit admission.

Isobel Heyman?is a consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist who leads the Psychological Medicine Team at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. She is Honorary Professor at the Institute of Child Health, University College London. She is nationally/internationally known for her clinical and research work on obsessive compulsive disorder and neuropsychiatry. She has a commitment to the integration of physical and mental health care. In 2015 she was awarded Psychiatrist of the Year.

Peter Hindley is a retired Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Chair of the Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Royal College of...