Helen Minnis

Biography

 Helen Minnis is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Glasgow. She spent time working as an Orphanage Doctor in Guatemala in the early 1990s prior to training in Psychiatry, and this stimulated an interest in the effects of early maltreatment on children's development. She has published research on the role of genetics and environment in Reactive Attachment Disorder and has developed the first published standardised assessment tools for school aged children with this disorder. She is now conducting intervention research for maltreated children including a randomised controlled trial of an infant mental health service for young children in foster care.

Research Interest

 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry