Dr Dennis Ougrin

Dr Ougrin is a psychiatrist with nearly 10 years of clinical and academic experience specialising in child and adolescent psychiatry. He also has undertaken much research in the area of self-harm and has developed an effective intervention for self-harm in adolescents.

Dr Ougrin graduated from a medical school in Ukraine in 1998 and came to England to undertake his post-graduate training. He completed his higher training in child and adolescent psychiatry at Guy's and Maudsley and is currently a consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. He also has obtained a PhD in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Dr Ougrin is Editor in Chief of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Journal (CAMH) and an honorary research and audit consultant at NHS Brent. Dr Ougrin is also a visiting clinical senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience. His main professional interests include prevention of Borderline Personality Disorder and effective interventions for self-harm. He is the author of Therapeutic Assessment, a model of assessment for young people presenting with self-harm in emergency, and has also had many papers published in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry and self-harm.