Speaker
Professor Roz Shafran
Emeritus Professor of Translational Psychology, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Biography
I am an Emeritus Professor of Translational Psychology at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. I am an honorary Consultant Clinical Psychologist, a member of the Health Professions Council and Fellow of the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy. I jointly lead the ICH GOS MentalHealth Strategic Initiative. I founded the Charlie Waller Institute of Evidenced Based Psychological Treatment in 2007 at the University of Reading and was its director until 2012. I am an advisor for the Charlie Waller Memorial Trust, Patron of 'No Panic' and recipient of prizes such as the BMJ Mental Health Team of the Year, Positive Practice 'Making a Difference' Award, British Psychological Society Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in Practice and Marsh Award for Mental Health for research that has made a difference to clinical practice. In addition to academic clinical research publications, I have co-authored and co-edited four self-help books, the most recent is 'How to Cope When Your Child Can't: Comfort, help and hope for parents'.