The Child Within

Richard Butler is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist withthe child and adolescent mental health services in Leeds and anHonorary Lecturer at the University of Leeds. He qualified atBristol University, undertook clinical practice at High RoydsHospital working alongside Don Bannister, participated as a sportspsychologist with the British Olympic Association, worked with theWorld Health Organization on structuring assessment and treatmentapproaches for nocturnal enuresis and is involved with the Avonlongitudinal Survey of Parents and Children in researchingpreventative strategies in child health. Throughout his work he hassought to draw on the principles of personal construct theory tohelp people enhance their psychological functioning. He is thecreator of performance profiling, a methods of enhancing sportingperformance; co-author of the three systems approach tounderstanding and treating nocturnal enuresis; and more latterlydeveloped the Self Image Profile as a means of understanding andassessing how children and adults construe themselves. Amongst hisother interests is the active study of consistently poor golf,collecting vinyl records and suffering the trauma of supportingHuddersfield Town. David Green is Clinical Director of the Doctor ofClinical Psychology training programme at the University of Leeds.He has worked with children and adolescents and theirfamilies for over 30 years and currently contributes clinicalpsychology support to the paediatric oncology service at St JamesUniversity Hospital in Leeds. He is a long-standing Kellyan and haswritten and presented a series of papers on personal constructapproaches to therapeutic work with young people on topics such asfixed role therapy and paediatric health care. He also has a keeninterest in the processes of professional training, especially therole of clinical supervision.