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Helping troubled children
- Author:
- RUTTER Michael
- Publisher:
- Penguin
- Publication year:
- 1975
- Pagination:
- 376p.
- Place of publication:
- Harmondsworth
Psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and adolescents: a critical review of the evidence base
- Authors:
- MIDGLEY Nick, KENNEDY Eilis
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 37(3), December 2011, pp.232-260.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
For many years psychoanalytic and psychodynamic therapies have been considered to lack a credible evidence-base and have consistently failed to appear in lists of ‘empirically supported treatments’. Recent reviews have improved the evidence-base in relation to the psychodynamic treatment of adults. The aim of this review is to look critically at the research evaluating the efficacy and effectiveness of psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and young people. Following a comprehensive search, 34 separate studies were identified that met the criteria for inclusion, including 9 randomised controlled trials. The findings from these studies are discussed in relation to the outcomes for children and young people with: mixed diagnosis; experience of maltreatment, trauma and neglect; disruptive disorders; emotional disorders; depression; a physical illness; anorexia nervosa; obsessive compulsive disorders; and learning difficulties. Many of these studies are limited by the small sample size, and lack of carefully selected control groups. Despite this, the review indicates that there is increasing evidence to suggest the effectiveness of psychoanalytic psychotherapy for children and adolescents.
Recovery among youths referred to outpatient psychotherapy: reliable change, clinical significance, and predictors of outcome
- Authors:
- ASH Sarah E., WEIS Robert
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 26(5), October 2009, pp.399-413.
- Publisher:
- Springer
The outcomes of 35,429 children and young people (5–17 years of age) referred to public outpatient psychotherapy programs in Ohio were examined. One year after intake, approximately 55% of youths showed statistically reliable symptom reduction whereas 8% showed reliable symptom exacerbation. Approximately one-third of the sample showed both reliable and clinically significant improvement. Outcomes varied significantly by informant, client age, and client gender. Results indicate that many children and young people improve during the course of therapy but most remain symptomatic 1 year after intake.
Who stays in treatment? Child and family predictors of youth client retention in a public mental health agency
- Authors:
- MILLER Lauren M., SOUTHAM-GEROW Michael A., ALLIN Robert B.
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Youth Care Forum, 37(4), August 2008, pp.153-170.
- Publisher:
- Springer
The present study examined predictors of youth client retention in therapy in a large community-based sample in the United States. Several conceptualizations of retention were used, including (a) “intake retention” (i.e., returned to treatment after intake session); (b) “mutual termination” (i.e., termination agreed upon by family and therapist), (c) “mean treatment duration” (i.e., completing the mean number of sessions in the agency), and (d) “total treatment duration” (i.e., total number of sessions). Archival data from over 400 children and adolescents who sought treatment at a large public mental health clinic were analyzed using regression analyses. Although different predictors were identified across the various conceptualizations, a few robust predictors emerged including ethnicity and client symptom severity. Clinical implications and future research directions are discussed.
Resilient therapy: strategic therapeutic engagement with children in crisis
- Authors:
- HART Angie, BLINCOW Derek, THOMAS Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Child Care in Practice, 14(2), April 2008, pp.131-145.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article offers an overview of Resilient Therapy (RT) and outlines a case study of how it can be used in practice. RT draws on the resilience research base, and has been designed to meet the needs of children in crisis by providing insights and analytical tools that help carers and practitioners build relationships of trust in the hardest of circumstances. RT emphasises Masten's notion of “ordinary magic”, and the idea of the “Resilient Therapist” has emerged through practice situations with parents, carers and colleagues, and through work with specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. The core competences of the Resilient Therapist are outlined, with a case example providing an illustration of how RT can be applied.
Parent-infant psychotherapy for improving parental and infant mental health (review)
- Authors:
- BARLOW Jane, et al
- Publisher:
- John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 166
- Place of publication:
- Hoboken, NJ
This review examined whether parent-infant psychotherapy (PIP) is effective in improving the parent-infant relationship, or other aspects of parent or infant functioning, and sought to identify the programme components that appear to be associated with more effective outcomes and factors that modify intervention effectiveness (e.g. programme duration, programme focus). It identified eight studies with 846 randomised participants comparing either PIP with a no-treatment control group (four studies) or comparing PIP with other types of treatment (four studies). The review concludes that although PIP appears to be a promising method of improving infant attachment security, there is no evidence about its benefits in terms of other outcomes, and no evidence to show that it is more effective than other types of treatment for parents and infants. (Edited publisher abstract)
Dyadic developmental psychotherapy is not 'evidence-based': comments in response to Becker-Weidman and Hughes
- Authors:
- MERCER Jean, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Family Social Work, 15(1), February 2010, pp.1-5.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article refutes a recent claim that Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), a mental-health intervention for children, is an evidence-based treatment (EBT), and that practitioners should not confuse evidence based practice (EBT) with empirically supported therapies - EBTs. A common definition of EBP is ‘integration of the best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values’, whereas EBTs have been defined by some authors as interventions shown to produce therapeutic change by research using well-designed controlled clinical trials. This paper examines the meaning of the EBT term and the accuracy of the claim, concluding that DDP does not meet the criteria that would allow it to be called evidence-based. Noting other problems with this previous research, and identifying ways in which the original authors could provide better support for their claim, the authors suggest that while DDP may provide potential advantages for some families, more detailed case history is required.
The association of child psychotherapists: an organisation evolving over fifty years
- Authors:
- LUSH Dora, HURST Margaret, RADFORD Pat
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 25(1), April 1999, pp.5-27.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
Each of the authors present articles that describe the establishment and growth of the Association of Child Psychotherapists over the last fifty years, 1949-99.
Child Psychotherapy
- Author:
- YOUELL Biddy
- Journal article citation:
- Young Minds Magazine, 26, July 1996, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
There are still only just over 300 child psychotherapists working in Britain and most of them live and work in the south-east. The author, a child psychotherapist, outlines their work and emphasises the unique contribution psychotherapists can make to the multi-disciplinary team.
Motiveless malignity: problems in the psychotherapy of psychopathic patients
- Author:
- ALVAREZ Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 21(2), August 1995, pp.167-182.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
This article attempts to draw attention to the difference between the states of mind and inner worlds of neurotic, borderline and psychopathic patients, with reference to different types of destructiveness: anger in the neurotic patient; desperate vengeful hatred in the borderline paranoid; and a cold addiction to violence in the psychopath. Although most patients refuse to stay put in the neat schematic categories outlined, they do seem to appreciate and to need the therapist's recognition of the specific quality of these vastly different states of mind.