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The Editors

Amanda Venta, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of Psychology

University of Houston

Carla Sharp, PhD

Professor

Department of Psychology

University of Houston

Jack M. Fletcher, PhD

Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor

Associate Vice President for Research Administration

Associate Chair, Department of Psychology

University of Houston

Peter Fonagy, FMedSci FBA

Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London

Chief Executive, Anna Freud National Centre for Children & Families

Director, UCLPartners Integrated Mental Health & Behaviour Change ProgrammeSenior Clinical Advisor on Children’s Mental Health, NHS England

Library of Congress Information

Amanda Cristina Venta, Date of Birth: March 20, 1987

Carla Sharp, Date of Birth: October 9, 1971

Jack McFarlin Fletcher, Date of Birth: May 12, 1952

Peter Fonagy, Date of Birth: August 14, 1952

About the Editors

Amanda Venta, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychology serving the APA Accredited Clinical Psychology doctoral program at the University of Houston. She received her BA from Rice University and her MA and PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Houston. She completed her pre‐doctoral internship at DePelchin Children’s Center through the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine, where she remains Adjunct Faculty. Dr. Venta’s clinical training focused on children, adolescents, and families, with practicum placements at DePelchin Children’s Center and Texas Children’s Hospital. She also provided psychological services within the University of Houston’s Psychology Research and Services Center and in several Houston‐area schools. Her primary research interests are the development of psychopathology in youth and the protective effect of attachment security, with additional interests in emotion dysregulation and social cognition. She has recently focused on the psychological functioning of recently immigrated adolescents from Central America, with related research and clinical work. Her published work includes more than 90 manuscripts and chapters as well as two books in press besides the current edited volume, including Cultural competency in psychological assessment: Working effectively with Latinos with Oxford University Press and an edited collection entitled Serving Refugee Children: Listening to Stories of Detention in the USA with Peter Lang. She has received research funding from the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities, the National Institutes of Mental Health, and the American Psychological Foundation.

Carla Sharp, PhD, trained as a clinical psychologist (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) from 1994 to 1997, after which she completed a PhD in Developmental Psychopathology at Cambridge University, UK, 1997–2000. In 2001, she obtained full licensure as a Clinical Psychologist in the UK through a Statement of Equivalence with the British Psychological Society. From 2001 to 2004 she was appointed as a Research Postdoctoral Fellow in Developmental Psychopathology, Cambridge University. In 2004, she moved to the United States to take up an appointment as Assistant Professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine. She obtained provisional licensure as a Clinical Psychologist in Texas in 2008. In 2009, she was appointed as Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Houston. In 2014 Dr. Sharp was promoted to Full Professor. Her published work includes over 270 peer‐reviewed publications and numerous chapters reflecting her interests in the social‐cognitive basis of psychiatric problems and problems of behavioral health, and the application of this work in developing diagnostic tools and interventions in youth. She has co‐authored three books: An edited volume with Springer titled The handbook of borderline personality disorder in children and adolescents, an edited volume with Oxford University Press titled Social cognition and developmental psychopathology, and a book with MIT Press titled Midbrain mutiny: Behavioral economics and neuroeconomics of gambling addiction as a basic reward system disorder. Her work has been continuously funded since 2009 by the National Institutes of Health and various foundations.

Jack M. Fletcher, PhD, is a Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Houston. He received a BA degree from Davidson College in 1973 and a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Florida in 1978. Dr. Fletcher has been affiliated with The University of Houston since 1979, first as an adjunct assistant professor (1979–1985), then as a tenured Associate Professor (1985–1989), adjunct Professor (1989–2006), and beginning his current tenured appointment in 2006. From 1978 to 1985, Dr. Fletcher was the Acting Director of the Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities Research Section at the Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences; from 1989 to 2006, Dr. Fletcher was a tenured Professor in the Division of Developmental Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at The University of Texas Medical School, Houston. For the past 40 years, Dr. Fletcher, a board‐certified child neuropsychologist, has worked on issues related to child neuropsychology, including studies of children with spina bifida, traumatic brain injury, and other acquired disorders. In the area of developmental learning and attention disorders, Dr. Fletcher has addressed issues related to definition and classification, neurobiological correlates, and, most recently, intervention. Dr. Fletcher directs a Learning Disability Research Center grant funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. He served on the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development National Advisory Council, the Rand Reading Study Group, the National Research Council Committee on Scientific Principles in Education Research, and the President’s Commission on Excellence in Special Education. The author of three books and over 400 papers, Dr. Fletcher was the recipient of the Samuel T. Orton award from the International Dyslexia Association in 2003 and a co‐recipient of the Albert J. Harris award from the International Reading Association in 2006. He was President of the International Neuropsychological Society in 2008–2009.

Peter Fonagy, PhD, is Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at UCL; Chief Executive of the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, London; Consultant to the Child and Family Programme at the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine; and holds visiting professorships at Yale and Harvard Medical Schools. He has occupied a number of key leadership positions including Chair of the Outcomes Measurement Reference Group at the UK Department of Health, Chair of two NICE Guideline Development Groups, Chair of the Strategy Group for National Occupational Standards for Psychological Therapies, and co‐chaired the UK Department of Health’s Expert Reference Group on Vulnerable Children. His clinical interests centre on issues of early attachment relationships, social cognition, borderline personality disorder and violence. He has published over 550 scientific papers, 260 chapters, and has authored or co‐authored 20 books. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Academy of Social Sciences, and the American Association for Psychological Science, and was elected to Honorary Fellowship by the American College of Psychiatrists. He has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from several national and international professional associations, including the British Psychological Society, the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorder, the British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder, the World Association for Infant Mental Health, and was in 2015 the first UK recipient of the Wiley Prize of the British Academy for Outstanding Achievements in Psychology by an international scholar.