Author biographies

Pamela Bartram trained as a child psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic having begun her clinical work as a music therapist. She currently works alongside non-CAMHS health professionals, assessing and treating the families of babies and pre-school children with disabilities such as those resulting from very premature birth and children on the autistic spectrum. She also has a role in the development and management of multi-disciplinary mental health services for children and young people with disabilities and their families. She is passionately interested in the impact of disability on mental health as well as the impact of mental health on disability.

Caroline Essenhigh currently works as Consultant child psychotherapist at East Ayrshire CAMHS in Scotland. She trained at the Anna Freud Centre where she continued to work until 2002. She has also worked in a children's home, as well as practising as a psychotherapist in a school for boys with emotional and behavioural difficulties. She has worked in Tier 2 community-based adolescent psychotherapy services, in both the NHS and the voluntary sector, and within a CAMHS service in east London. She also has a particular interest in working with learning disability as well as hard to engage cases such as conduct disordered children.

Lynette Hughes is an adult and couple psychotherapist, with a background in social work in child and adolescent mental health. She recently retired from the Winnicott Centre, Central Manchester and Manchester Children's Hospitals NHS Trust and is now in private practice. She worked previously in the Tavistock Marital Studies Institute and the Maudsley Hospital. She is particularly interested in the application of psychoanalytic ideas to the delivery of front-line services, and is the co-author, with Paul Pengelly, of Staff Supervision in a Turbulent Environment (1977, Jessica Kingsley).

Charlotte Jarvis is a Consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist, and Director of Open Door, Young Peopl