Prof Kathrin Sevecke is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychotherapist and a systemic family therapist. She is the Director of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at University Hospital Innsbruck and the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychosomatics in Hall, Austria, where she is also a professor, and a forensic expert in childhood and adolescence. Her main areas of research include personality pathology in children and adolescents, impulse control disorders, forensic psychiatry, eating disorders and attachment representation of adolescents. She is the co-editor of Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie.