Dr Dickon Bevington MA MBBS MRCPsych PGCert
Biog: edit
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist edit
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: edit
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: edit
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: edit
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).