Meet the editorial team behind the journal Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
Our editors are leading clinicians, researchers, and academics in child and adolescent mental health, committed to ensuring that every paper we publish is robust, ethical, and directly useful to those working with children, young people, and families.
Editor in Chief, Bernadka qualified in medicine and psychology at the University of London, completing child psychiatry training and her thesis in adolescent depression at the University of Manchester. She is the chief investigator of the National Institute of Health Research multi-site BAY trial of web-based Behavioural Activation in young people with depression (2022-26).
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Dr. Cornelius Ani is an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Division of Psychiatry, Imperial College London, and a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the African Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Dr Ani is responsible for the Letters to the Editor section and he contributes editorial expertise in the area of Low and Middle Income Countries, inequalities, and physical health.
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Dr Amy McCulloch is a Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Manchester and Galaxy House inpatient unit at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. She is Debates Intern and a committee member for the Northwest branch of ACAMH.
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Dr Hiran Thabrew is a Child Psychiatrist and Paediatrician. He is Director of Te Ara Hāro, a centre for infant, child and adolescent mental health at the University of Auckland and a member of the Consult Liaison Team at Starship Children’s Hospital.
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Dr. Salazar de Pablo is a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London. He also works as an honorary Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Gonzalo is in the Board of Directors of the Spanish Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health and he is one of the joint editors of CAMH.
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Michael Kaess is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Bern as well as the Director of the University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Bern in Switzerland. Professor Kaess is a Joint Editor of CAMH.
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Dr. Dekkers is a senior researcher at the Accare Child Study Center and the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands. He also works as a licensed therapist and coordinator of the ADHD team at Levvel, Academic Center for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Specialized Youthcare in Amsterdam. He is a Joint Editor of CAMH.
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Dr. Thees F. Spreckelsen is a Lecturer in Research Methods at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Glasgow. He teaches quantitative methods for the Glasgow Q-Step centre. Dr. Spreckelsen is an Associate Editor and CAMH’s Quantitative Methods Analyst.
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Dr. Michele S. Berk is a licensed clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She is Joint Editor of CAMH.
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Dr. Gordon Bates is a consultant child psychiatrist interested in the interaction between culture, young people and mental illness. He works for the NHS in the West Midlands and has recently completed his PhD in medical humanities. He is an Associate Editor of CAMH, responsible for the Narrative Matters section.
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