Diana Cassell

Dr Diana Cassell has been a consultant child psychiatrist in Kingston-upon-Thames since 1992. She has had an interest in studying and working with families where the parents have mental health problems and other complex difficulties since early in her training, and has published and run training events on the topic.

She has held a role as the named doctor for child protection for the South West London and St George's Mental Health Trust where she works, and now has a management role as an associate medical director and does medico-legal work for Children Act proceedings, often where there are concerns about parental mental health difficulties.