Speaker
Professor Jonathan Hill
Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Reading
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Biography
The guiding principles in my work are that theoretical and empirical developments need to go hand in hand, with real, and not token, influences on each other. This is a philosophical, scientific and psychotherapeutic stance. Four main strands in my work reflect this perspective:
First, the study of developmental processes contributing to vulnerability to mental disorders in children and adolescents, and to resilience. This has been through the UK ‘Wirral Child Health and Development Study’ (WCHADS), the Indian ‘Bangalore Child Health and Development Study’ (WCHADS), and the Colombian, La Sabana Parent-Child Study.
Second, the development of a clinically and therapeutically practical framework for understanding and working with, parents and children, the Family Domains Framework (FDF).
Third, conceptualization and assessment of personality functioning in adolescence and the transition to adult life.
Fourth, identifying distinctive causal processes in biology, with a central role for normativity (correctness vs mistakes), and action, in order to inform hypothesis testing in biological and behavioural research.