Stephen Scott
Consultant Child Psychiatrist

Stephen Scott is a Consultant Child Psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital, London where he heads the National Conduct Problems Team. He is also Professor of Child Health and Behaviour at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London. Clinically, he is interested in improving outcomes for hard to manage children and adolescents, and finding ways to disseminate good practice at a national level.

Spephen recently chaired the NICE Guideline Development Group on Antisocial Behaviour and Conduct Disorders (2013), and leads for parenting interventions in the Children and Young People’s Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies (CY-IAPT) initiative. With Robert Goodman he is the author of the introductory text Child Psychiatry (3rd edn. 2012) and is an editor and author on Rutter’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (6th edn. in preparation).