Author biographies

Janet Anderson (D.Psych.Psych.) is a Tavistock-trained consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist. She had a leading role for research in the North Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. She is Chair of the ACP Research Committee and has published papers on research and is a co-editor of Child Psychotherapy and Research: New Approaches, Emerging Findings (2009).

Harriet Calvert is a child psychotherapist and adult psychoanalyst. She works for Windsor and Maidenhead CAMHS and she is also in private practice in Iver, Buckinghamshire.

Francesca Calvocoressi is the organising tutor for the SIHR Child Psychotherapy Training based in Edinburgh. She works part time in an NHS CAMHS multi-disciplinary team and offers regular consultancy to a residential school for primary aged children.

Elisabeth Kuhn Deakin is a psychologist with a Ph.D. in Psychology, Treatment and Intervention from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Southern Brazil. She is a psychotherapist at the Institute for Child and Family Health, Miami, Florida, USA.

Marina Bento Gastaud is a psychologist and Ph.D. student at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Southern Brazil. She is a researcher at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Southern Brazil.

Carolyn Hart is a child and adolescent psychotherapist working in a specialist CAMH service for vulnerable children in Sheffield. She has a particular interest in developmental trauma and the contribution of neuroscience to the field. Efforts at integrating findings from neuroscience into her clinical work have sparked her interest in relational psychoanalysis.

Joshua Holmes is a Ph.D. student at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, Essex. As an assistant research psychologist, he is involved in interviewing depressed young people and their parents about their experience of therapy for IMPACT-ME study. His research publications have examined the role of countertransference in qualitative interviews,