Minna Daum

Minna Daum BA, BSc (Hons) has been practising as a Systemic Family Therapist since 1992. For most of that time she has specialised in carrying out and supervising multi-disciplinary court assessments and providing expert opinion on the risk of rehabilitation following abuse. Her particular area of interest lies in child maltreatment and the family justice system, and specifically in adult personality disorder and its impact on children’s emotional development. At the Anna Freud Centre and in conjunction with Dr Duncan McLean she developed the Complex Cases court assessment service, specialising in working with families involving parents with personality disorders. In 2011 she and Dr McLean set up the Early Years Parenting Unit, a pioneering multi-family mentalization-based assessment and treatment service for parents with personality difficulties and their under-5 children on the edge of care.