Colleen McLaughlin University of Sussex, UK

Colleen McLaughlin is a Professor of Education at the University of Sussex School of Education and Social Work. For over twenty-five years she worked at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education where she directed a child and adolescent psychotherapeutic programme. She has written, researched and spoken on child and adolescent care and wellbeing, which is her passion. She is also concerned to promote the wider role of schools and teachers. She taught in schools and worked as a counsellor. She is a Fellow of BACP.