AMBIT Consultant

Dickon Bevington MA MBBS ~MRCPsych ~PGCert (Adolescent Addiction Studies) is a Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the NHS in Cambridgeshire, and is Medical Director at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families. As one of the original Authors of AMBIT, Dickon acts as a consultant to the AMBIT programme and delivers training, consultation and supervision widely. He specialises in the outreach treatment of complex, risky and hard to reach young people with substance use disorders and has previously worked in Adolescent inpatient hospitals. He has led the development of online wikis as treatment manuals, and previous publications include co-authorship of "What Works for Whom? A critical review of treatments for children and adolescents" (Fonagy et al, Guilford, 2014).