Meet our Patrons
Professor Helen Minnis - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Institute of Health and Wellbeing.
Helen Minnis has been interested in attachment and the mental health problems associated with abuse and neglect since working as an orphanage doctor in Guatemala in the early 1990s.
Since taking up post as an academic child and adolescent psychiatrist at the University of Glasgow in 2003, her research has focussed on Attachment Disorders, including developing and testing treatments and preventative interventions.
Helen Minnis has been interested in attachment and the mental health problems associated with abuse and neglect since working as an orphanage doctor in Guatemala in the early 1990s.
Since taking up post as an academic child and adolescent psychiatrist at the University of Glasgow in 2003, her research has focussed on Attachment Disorders, including developing and testing treatments and preventative interventions.
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Colwyn Trevarthen - Emeritus Professor Child Psychology & Psychobiology University of Edinburgh.
Colwyn is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Vice President of the British Association for Early Childhood Education. He originally trained as a biologist, before going on to study infancy research at Harvard in 1967, and has since published on brain development,infant communication and emotional health. His current research concerns how rhythm and expressions of musicality in movement help communication with children and may help parents, teachers and therapists give care and companionship to young children. |
