As part of the weekly seminar programme at the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry based at the Red Cross Children's Hospital in Cape Town, Associate Prof Jantina De Vries, in the Department of Medicine, presented a talk entitled, 'Consent for research: theoretical and practical considerations for research with children and adolescents' . The seminar was chaired by Prof Petrus de Vries and recorded with the permission of the presenter.