Dickon Bevington 
Dickon Bevington is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist who came to medicine late, via anthropology, comparative religion and philosophy. He has worked in Cambridge (UK) with the NHS for more than 30 years, specialising in excluded and stigmatised adolescents with complex multiple needs, and he is Medical Director for the Anna Freud in London. Along with Dr Peter Fuggle, he is a co-founder of AMBIT (Adolescent Mentalization Based Integrative Treatment). He has published and taught widely on this, and on efforts to bring evidence together with local/culturally-situated experience.
Dr Bevington trains and lectures internationally on Mentalizing in therapeutic practice and AMBIT, and has published various papers, books and chapters in the field of mentalization and multimodal outreach approaches. He is co-author of the large literature review “What works for whom: a critical review of treatments for children and adolescents” (Fonagy, Cottrell, Philips, Bevington, Glazer and Allison, Guilford, 2014) which critically reviews all treatment trials in the preceding 10-15 years across the field. He co-authored the first book on AMBIT (Bevington, Fuggle, Cracknell and Fonagy, OUP, 2017) and is co-author with Prof Carla Sharp of the book Mentalizing in psychotherapy: a guide for practitioners (Guilford, 2022)
Dr Bevington led a collaboration of academics, clinicians and programmers to develop a radical ‘wiki’-based approach to manualizing treatments, which is used by a wide range of treatments now, and is where AMBIT continues to be developed.