Professor Guastella is a Clinical Psychologist and the Michael Crouch Chair in Child and Youth Mental Health. His position is based both at the Children's Hospital at Westmead and Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney. As part of his university leadership, he is the co-lead of the Child Development and Mental Health team for the Brain and Mind Centre and Sydney Health Partners. His work aims to build collaborative partnerships between researchers, clinicians, and services to ensure that children youth, and families receive the best available assessments and treatments to support well-being. It also seeks to ensure research outcomes, technology, and evidence based practices are integrated into the public health services supporting some of our most disadvantaged communities. He is the director of the Clinic of Autism and Neurodevelopmental research. This clinic develop national registries, novel assessments and tests new psychological therapies and medical therapeutics. With a focus on strengths, skills and overcoming challenges, the goal is to give individuals with neurodevelopmental conditions and their families an evidence-base from which to determine what works for them. Prof Guastella is also a practicing clinical psychologist and for the last 20 years has worked primarily with young people experiencing a range of mental health concerns. He has developed mental health assessments and interventions to uplift capacity for services to support people with neurodevelopmental conditions. He also regularly provides training seminars for mental health professionals.