Author biographies

Andrew Briggs is Trust Head of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy at Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. He is also an organisational consultant. In both roles, he has a specialist clinical interest in children and young people in the care system. As well as seeing this vulnerable patient group in psychotherapy he has consulted within the tertiary sector to residential units, and to local authority social work managers and teams. His publications include those on difficult to reach children and the infant observation method. He has edited two books on children in care in the Karnac/Tavistock series: Waiting to be Found: Papers on Children in Care (2013) and Towards Belonging: Negotiating New Relationships for Adopted Children and Those in Care (2015).

Ricky Emanuel is a consultant child and adolescent and adult psychotherapist working at the Royal Free Hospital London and in private practice. He teaches at the Tavistock Clinic and for the Birmingham Trust for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. He teaches and lectures widely in the UK and abroad. His main interests are in the applications of neuroscience and mindfulness to psychotherapy practice and work with eating disorders and trauma.

Robert Fleming, originally from Scotland, was a social worker in South London before working in a child guidance clinic in America. He returned to the UK and trained as a child and adolescent psychotherapist at the Tavistock and later as an adult psychotherapist at the BAP (now BPF). Throughout his professional life he has had an interest in the substitute care of children unable to live with their birth parents. He completed his doctoral research in this area. Robert is currently a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist with South London and Maudsley NHS Trust.

Emma Gaines is a doctoral candidate in the School-Clinical Child Psychology Combined Doctoral Program at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. She has previously gained an MSc in School Psychology at Ferkauf, and a