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Glossary

AAI

Adult Attachment Interview

AFC

Anna Freud Centre

AMBIT

Adolescent Mentalization Based Integrative Treatment

CAI

Child Attachment Interview

CAMHS

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

CAS

Court Assessment Service

CBT

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

CBT-OBI

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and other Outcomes-Based Interventions

CORC

CAMHS Outcomes Research Consortium

CPS

Child Psychotherapy Service

DIT

Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy

DNP

Developmental Neuroscience and Psychopathology

DNU

Developmental Neuroscience Unit

DPCP

Developmental Psychology and Clinical Practice

EBPU

Evidence Based Practice Unit

EEG

Electroencephalography

FAS

Family Assessment Service

HoP

Head of Programme

IAPT

Improving Access to Psychological Therapies

ICAP

Immigrant Counselling and Psychotherapy

IMPACT-ME

Improving Mood with Psychoanalytic and Cognitive Therapies - My Experience

IPT

Interpersonal Psychotherapy Training

MAMS

Me and My School

MBT

Mentalization Based Therapy

MBT-F

Mentalization Based Treatment for Families

MCG

Management Consultation Group

Mentalization

Mentalization is the ability to perceive and to communicate one's own mental states and those of others - or the ability to be 'mindful of minds.' The term is loosely interchangeable with intersubjectivity and theory of minds.Mentalization Based Therapy encourages mentalization in order to improve intimate relationships.

Neuroscience

The scientific study of the brain, its structure and its functioning

NLPPPC

North London Post Permanent Placement Consortium

PDP

Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology

PIP

Parent Infant Project

PSP

Primary Schools Project

Psychoanalysis

A therapeutic method for treating personality/behavioural disorders that brings the unconscious fantasies and desires of the sufferer into their conscious mind.

Psychodynamic

Psychodynamics are the study of the interrelated parts of the mind, emotions and psyche - and how they influence each other and change. Psychodynamic psychotherapy is a form of psychotherapy that incorporates a variety of (interrelated) techniques according to the client's needs

Randomised Control Trial

A scientific procedure used to test medicines or medical procedures. An RCT is also used to test new psychological therapies.

RCT

Randomised Control Trial

REDIT

Randomised Evaluation of Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy

SDE

Service Development and Evaluation

SSAP

Story Stem Assessment Profile

TaMHS

Targeted Mental Health in Schools

TEDS

Twins Early Development Study

UCL

University College London

WHN

What Happened Next