Richard C. Harrington

Richard Charles Harrington ( born October 22, 1956 in Birmingham, † 23 May, 2004 Manchester ) was a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Manchester, England. His research results in the field of mental disorders of children, especially the child's depression and its treatment using cognitive behavioral therapy, pointed the way ahead even after his death.

Richard Harrington was born in Birmingham, the son of an established psychiatrist and went to the Bedford School to school. From 1975, he studied at the Birmingham Medical School, where he received awards for outstanding achievements in anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and clinical study psychiatry. After graduation he was assistant training in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital. After reaching the specialist title of Clinical Psychiatry, he was Master of Philosophy and chose to continue working for the emerging new field of child and adolescent psychiatry. Located on world- known in the art department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry by Sir Michael Rutter, he began research on family dynamics and the long-term course of the disease of children and adolescents with depression, with the results he obtained his doctorate at the University of Birmingham. In 1991, he left the Institute of Psychiatry and was professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Birmingham. In 1994 he moved to the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Manchester. He also conducted research in the area of ​​childhood depression, expanded its investigations but to early childhood behavioral disorders from. More and more detailed protocols for the treatment of depressed children have been developed. These included individual treatments of children on the basis of cognitive behavioral therapy, as well as group therapy for depressed children and adolescents, and self-injurious training groups for parents maladjusted children.

He was a board member of the British Child Psychiatry Research Society as well as Secretary and Vice- President of the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ( ESCAP ). In 1998 he was awarded the Nathan Cummings Foundation Award of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ( AACAP ). The largest ever comparative study of antidepressant medication with and without behavioral therapy for childhood depression completed - In the summer of 2004, ie shortly after his death, was - with colleagues from Manchester and Cambridge.

The 16th World Congress of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in August 2004 in Berlin was marked by the memory of Harrington.

Standard work on German

  • Cognitive behavioral therapy for depressed children and adolescents, Hogrefe - Verlag Göttingen 2001, ISBN 978-3801714857
  • University teachers (Manchester)
  • Psychiatrist
  • Physician ( 20th century )
  • Health professionals ( 21st century)
  • Briton
  • English
  • Born in 1956
  • Died in 2004
  • Man
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