Stephen Scott is Professor of Child Health and Behaviour at Kings College London’s Institute of Psychiatry, and Director of the National Academy for Parenting Research. He is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital, where he works in a multidisciplinary team alongside psychologists and social workers in the National Conduct Problems Team. He delivers and researches a range of interventions to help disruptive children, often involving changing the quality of the parent-child relationship. He chaired the recent NICE guideline on antisocial behaviour and conduct disorders.