Author biographies

Philip Graham is Emeritus Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Institute of Child Health, London, where he was Dean from 1985 to 1990. From 1968 to 1994, he was consultant child psychiatrist at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London. He has a long-standing interest in education, having served on the Warnock Committee on Children with Special Educational Needs (1978). His most recent publications are Child Psychiatry: A Developmental Approach (joint author), 4th edition, 2007, OUP; Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Children and Families, 2nd edition, 2005, CUP; and The End of Adolescence, 2004, OUP.

Becky Hall is currently in her final year of the Tavistock Child Psychotherapy Training and works at Parkside Clinic in West London. She was previously an assistant psychotherapist for TOPS, the Tavistock Outreach Programme in Schools, and before that she was working on a PhD in Literature at the University of York.

Emil Jackson is a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist working at the Tavistock Clinic and Brent Centre for Young People. Alongside his clinical and teaching role, he has been actively involved in the development of outreach projects in educational settings and, in particular, in the development of work discussion groups for teachers, middle and senior managers. In addition to his clinical and consultancy work, he teaches on a number of courses at the Tavistock Clinic, including the professional doctorate in child psychotherapy and the masters programme in working with groups.

Norka T. Malberg is a child and adolescent psychotherapist. She obtained degrees in the USA in the areas of Clinical Psychology and Educational Psychology with a specialisation in working with children and families at risk from Harvard University. Prior to her arrival in London in 1999, she worked in Chile in private practice and developed initiatives to encourage the prevention of child sexual abuse. She was subsequently the school psychologist at the Interna