Amanda Venta, PhD is an Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Houston, Texas, USA. Dr. Venta's primary research interests are the development of psychopathology in youth and the protective effect of attachment security.

Carla Sharp, PhD is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Developmental Psychopathology Lab, University of Houston, Texas, USA, where she also leads the Adolescent Diagnosis Assessment Prevention and Treatment (ADAPT) Clinic.

Peter Fonagy, PhD, FBA is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Head of the Research Department of Clinical, Educational, and Health Psychology at University College London, UK, and Chair of the Postgraduate Centre of the International Psychoanalytic Association.

Jack M. Fletcher, PhD is Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor, Associate Vice President for Research Administration, and Associate Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Houston, Texas, USA.