The experience of working via tele video in Australia during the Covid-19 pandemic

Ruth Schmidt Neven PhD is a child psychotherapist and clinical psychologist. She is the founder director of the Centre for Child and Family Development in Melbourne Australia and was previously inaugural Chief Child Psychotherapist at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. In addition to her extensive clinical work, she has run training programmes throughout Australia and internationally, based on her model that conceptualizes links between the core developmental task, and interactive child parent assessment and therapy. She is the author of four books, the most recent being Time-limited Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents: An interactive approach (Routledge, 2017). She has published articles and chapters on clinical work that include attention deficit disorder, under-fives counselling and critiques of contemporary pathology-based child and family mental health practices. She was a keynote speaker at the first Key Debate on Child Psychotherapy Research held in October 2018 in London.
CONTACT Ruth Schmidt Neven Centre for Child and Family Development, P. O. Box 14600, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia