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