Dr. Ruth Schmidt Neven is a clinical psychologist and child and adolescent psychotherapist based in Melbourne Australia. She is founder director of the Centre for Child and Family Development and was previously the inaugural Chief Psychotherapist at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. Ruth trained at the Tavistock Clinic in London. In the UK and Australia, she has brought a pioneering approach first to clinical work with children, parents, and young people and more recently by introducing a model of time-limited psychodynamic psychotherapy. Ruth has run her training courses throughout Australia and overseas including at the University of Cambridge, Peabody College, Van der Bilt University USA, Stellenbosch University, South Africa and at the NScience training programme in the UK. These trainings are now available as audio trainings and can be accessed via her website. Ruth has published five highly acclaimed books including the latest on time-limited psychodynamic psychotherapy as well as articles in refereed and other journals. Ruth is President of the Association of Child and Family Development a not-for-profit organization and directs their series of podcasts Talking Child Development with a wide range of professionals in the field.
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