Stephen Scott is Professor of Child Health and Behaviour at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London. He works as a consultant psychiatrist specialising in two areas, conduct problems and adoption and fostering. 

Stephen enjoys carrying out trials of parenting interventions to improve child outcomes in both the attachment and antisocial behaviour domains. He is an author of the bestselling introductory textbook, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Goodman and Scott, 3rd edition) and an author and editor of the large, authoritative textbook, Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 

In 2014 Stephen was made a Commander of the British Empire by the Queen and, in 2017, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2019 he was made an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.