Project Description

Dr Bevington studied anthropology, philosophy and comparative religion at Downing College, Cambridge, before training in medicine at the Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, qualifying as a consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry from the Great Ormond Street/Royal London training scheme. After working in two in-patient services, he now pursues a special interest in developing and running services for young people who are multiply excluded and may be seen as “hard to reach” by conventional clinic-based services. He works for the CASUS team (http://www.casus.cpft.nhs.uk) and for the MST-CAN team at Cambridgeshire County Council. He is a CLAHRC Fellow, and is working on a major evaluation of the “Social Workers Working for Families” service reorganisation in Cambs Children’s Services. He is also seconded part-time to the London-based charity the Anna Freud Centre where he is psychiatrist and a developer of mentalization-based treatments. He teaches and trains nationally and internationally in this field. He recently won a national innovation nation award for his work in developing wiki-based ‘treatment manuals’. He has produced various academic publications on AMBIT and is co-authoring the second edition of a major text book (“What Works for Whom: A critical review of treatments for Child and Adolescents”) due for publication late 2013.