Biografisk notat

Lara Jean Farrell is an Associate Professor of applied psychology at Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus in Brisbane Australia, and a practicing clinical psychologist in a private practice. She is an Editorial Board Member on Australian Psychologist, Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders. She serves as the international editor of International Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, and the associate editor for Child Psychiatry and Human Development as well as the book series editor for Clinical Practice Parameters for Child and Youth Emotional and Behavioural Problems. Her research is on evidence-based interventions for child and adolescent mental health, CBT, exposure therapy, child anxiety, resilience, and child insomnia. Cecilia A. Essau is a Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Roehampton, UK where she is Director of Centre for Applied Research and Assessment in Child and Adolescent Wellbeing (CARACAW). She received her PhD from the University of Konstanz (Germany), and her “Habilitation” in Psychology (qualification for tenure-track professorships in Germany) from the University of Bremen (Germany). She is the first Iban woman to have received a PhD. Professor Essau has Visiting Chairs at numerous universities, including the Norman Munn Distinguished Visiting Scholar from Flinders University, and the Florey Medical Research Foundation Mental Health Visiting Professor from the University of Adelaide, Australia. In 2011, she was made Fellow of the British Psychological Society in recognition of her contribution to the field of Psychology. She is also Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Her research focuses on understanding factors that can lead young people to have serious emotional and behavioural problems and using this research to both enhance the assessment of childhood and adolescent psychopathology, and design more effective interventions to prevent and treat such problems. She is the author of 222 articles, and is the author/editor of 20 books in the area of youth mental health.