Title of "Ambassador of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Treatment" Awarded to Peter Fonagy.

Professor Peter Fonagy (OBE) leads a career in clinical psychology that epitomizes an integrative approach to the psychological care for children, adolescents and adults, with a continued determination to alleviate mental pain in those suffering from often chronic psychological distress. Driven by the ambition of increasing access to quality care for the vulnerable, he has occupied a number of key national leadership positions in the UK, including Chair of the Outcomes Measurement Reference Group at the Department of Health, Chair of two NICE Guideline Development Groups, Chair of the Strategy Group for National Occupational Standards for Psychological Therapies and co-chaired the Department of Health's Expert Reference Group on Vulnerable Children. His clinical interests centre on issues of early attachment relationships, resilience, social cog­ nition, borderline personality disorder and vi­ olence. Drawing from psychoanalysis, develop­ mental psychology, attachment theory as well as cognitive and affective neuroscience, Peter Fona­ gy puts forward a clinical approach based on evidence as well as best practice, closely articula­ ted to the most recent developments in research on psychopathology and psychotherapy. A ma­ jor focus of his contribution has been an innova­ tive research-based psychodynamic therapeutic approach, mentalization-based treatment, which was developed in collaboration with a number of clinical sites in the UK and USA. He has Peter Fonagy (2013)