Primary contact address

Gatton Place,
St Matthew's Road,
Redhill,
RH1 1TA,
United Kingdom

Primary telephone number

01737 288 700

Specialities

  • Autistic Spectrum Disorders
  • Child & Adolescent Mental Health

Areas covered

  • Mole Valley
  • Reigate and Banstead
  • Tandridge

Biography

Dr Glòria Durà-Vilà, MD, MRCPsych, MSc, PhD is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Medical Lead for Autism Spectrum Disorder in Surrey and Borders NHS Foundation Trust. She is Honorary Lecturer at the Department of Mental Health, University College London. She was previously Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London for four years. She is a member of the executive committees of the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Special Interest Groups: Transcultural Psychiatry, and Spirituality and Psychiatry.

She studied medicine in Valencia, Spain, and was trained in psychiatry at the Royal Free Hospital and in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at St Mary’s Hospital in London. She completed an MSc and a PhD in Mental Health at University College London. Her research interests focus on cultural psychiatry and medical anthropology including culture, spirituality and mental health, the medicalisation of sadness, cultural understanding of sadness and depression, idioms and narratives of distress, and cultural variation in attitudes to young people consenting to health interventions

She has authored two books published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. My Autism Book. A Child’s Guide to their Autistic Spectrum Diagnosis (2013) which is tailored to the needs and experiences of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): it explains what an ASD diagnosis means and encourages an exploration of the child's strengths and differences. She is passionate about communicating the ASD diagnosis to the parents and the child in the best possible way. She has also written Sadness, Depression and the Dark Night of the Soul. Transcending the Medicalisation of Sadness (2017). Her new book on Me and my PDA: A Guide to Pathological Demand Avoidance for Young People, published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, is coming out later this year.