CYP Wellbeing seminar series- Professor Cathy Creswell

Anxiety problems in children are common and associated with a wide range of negative impacts. Effective treatments are available but traditionally very few children who could benefit have been able to access them. Cathy will talk through a programme of work that has led to the development and evaluation of accessible and efficient interventions that are now being widely implemented in routine practice- sharing reflections on some small wins and some big challenges along the way.

Bio: Cathy Creswell is a Professor of Clinical Developmental Psychology at the University of Oxford, UK. She qualified as a clinical psychologist at University College London and then stayed there to complete a PhD on the development of anxious cognitions in children alongside clinical work in local services. Since then she has worked in clinical academic roles with a focus on the development, prevention, and treatment of anxiety problems in children. Cathy has held an MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship and an NIHR Research Professorship and is now an NIHR Senior Investigator and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. She moved to Oxford in 2019 where she leads The Oxford Psychological Interventions for Children and adolescents (TOPIC) research group.