W. Edward Craighead, Ph.D., ABPP is a Professor and vice-chair of the child adolescent, and young adult division of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University.

Dr. Craighead has served as President of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and the Clinical Division of the American Psychological Association (Society of Clinical Psychology). He has been Editor of Behavior Therapy and is currently Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. At Emory, he holds the J. Rex Fuqua Chair, is a Professor of Distinction, and is the Director of the Child and Adolescent Mood Program (CAMP), and is the Vice Chair for Child, Adolescent, and Transition Age Youth in the Department of Psychiatry.

Dr. Craighead’s research, which focuses on mood disorders, has been funded for several years by NIMH and private Foundations. Over the past three decades, his work has focused on cognitive behavioral models of Major Depression and Bipolar Disorders. He continues his work on the prevention of the first episode of depression with his colleague Eirikur Arnarson in Iceland, and they have recently begun work on a similar prevention study in Portugal. He and his colleague, David Miklowitz, and his wife, Linda Craighead, (who is an Emory Professor of Psychology) have recently published a graduate-level Psychopathology book.