Author biographies

Deborah Blessing is in private practice in Washington D.C. She formerly served as Co-Chair of the Advanced Psychotherapy Training Program at the Washington School of Psychiatry where she remains on the faculty. She is also a member of the Core Faculty of the Infant and Young Child Observation Program at the same institution. In addition, she sits on the faculties of the New Directions in Psychoanalytic Writing Program and the Modern Perspectives on Psychotherapy Program at the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. She has specialised in treating patients with eating disorders for more than two decades.

Debbie Hindle is the Organising Tutor for the Clinical Training in Child Psychotherapy at the Scottish Institute of Human Relations and is a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist with the Looked After and Accommodated Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in Glasgow. She has a long-standing interest in the needs of children who are fostered and adopted and has written widely in relation to this area of work.

Margaret Hunter-Smallbone is author of Psychotherapy with Young People in Care (2001) and a contributor to The Handbook of Child Psychotherapy (Horne & Lanyado, eds, 1999). She has been a child psychotherapist for over 20 years, 13 of these with the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, now with Herts Partnership in St Albans. She has continued to work with looked after children throughout her career.

Jenny Kenrick was until recently a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist and clinical tutor for the Clinical Training in Child Psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic. She still teaches on training at the Tavistock, in Birmingham and Italy. She was a member of the Fostering and Adoption team and co-convenor of the Fostering and Adoption Workshop at the Tavistock. She has developed a particular interest in, and has written about, children in transition.

Monica Lanyado is a training supervisor for the British Association of Psychotherapists and has a