User:Dickonbevington

Dr Dickon Bevington MA MBBS MRCPsych PGCert

Biog:

See https://www.linkedin.com/dickonbevington/en

Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CASUS team http://www.casus.cpft.nhs.uk) and Medical Director at the Anna Freud Centre (http://www.annafreud.org) in London, UK.

Author:

Co-author of 2nd Edition of "What works for whom: a critical review of treatments for children and young people" with Fonagy, Cottrell, Phillips, Glaser and Allison (Guilford, 2014) and numerous other chapters and academic papers.

Main professional interests:

Substance use disorders and their treatment in young people, developing mentalization-based treatments for complex, highly socially excluded and disadvantaged, high risk and under-served (the so-called "hard to reach") youth (the AMBIT project based at the Anna Freud Centre). Main developer of Wiki-based treatment manuals - see http://www.tiddlymanuals.com and an open source approach to the development and dissemination of emerging best evidence-baed practice for young people.

Background:

MA (Cantab) Anthropology, Comparative Religion and Philosophy of religion prior to Medical training (Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School) and higher specialist training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Great Ormond Street/Royal London Hospitals).