Author biographies
Abstract
Zaib Davids is a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychological Medicine, University College London Hospital, working predominately in Paediatric Liaison, and a Member of the British Society of Psychoanalysis. Valeria Escand n is a Bachelor of Performing Arts and a graduate of the MA in Psychoanalytic Observational Studies at the Tavistock Clinic. She has experience working in theatre, dance and clowning as a performer and has worked with children and adolescents through play, drama and music. She has worked as a clown doctor in hospitals with adults and children. Hsueh-Mei Fan trained as a child psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, qualifying in 2008. Before she came to London in 2001, she was a PhD candidate in counselling psychology at the National Normal University in Taiwan. At that time, she worked as a psychodynamic counsellor at the university. She is also a qualified educational psychologist and primary school teacher and worked in school for seven years. Tamara Gelman is a clinical psychologist working in the Tower Hamlets Primary Care Psychology and Counselling Team, London. She works as an adult primary care psychologist in a number of Children's Centres in Tower Hamlets. She