Breaking the cycle - could early intervention reduce psychiatric illness?
Dr Lade Smith is an expert in health inequality and its relationship with mental illness. She is also a general adult trained psychiatrist and forensic psychiatrist. The majority of her patients are people who have suffered significant trauma and social disadvantage in childhood, too much of which was avoidable.
She often finds herself thinking that if only someone had intervened when her patients were young children, then they might not have become her patient.
Dr Smith will provide an evidence-based review of how parents, professionals and all the services that support children can avoid them becoming forensic mental health patients.
Speaker
Professor Lade Smith
Clinical Director of the Forensic Services at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and President of the Royal College of Psychiatry.
Dr Lade Smith began her life as a psychiatrist on the Bethlem and Maudsley training scheme in 1992 and has continued to work for South London and Maudsley since.
