A Centre of Learning
The Anna Freud Centre is a pioneering centre of research and training dedicated to understanding children's emotional development through training health professionals, conducting research and advising practitioners, universities and governments around the world.
Our educational programmes include a Masters degree in Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology (in collaboration with University College London), a Masters degree in Psychodynamic Developmental Neuroscience (in collaboration with Yale University and University College London) and a full clinical training. We have recently established an Academic Faculty of leading academic and clinical researchers engaged in empirical, theoretical or conceptual psychoanalytic research over a variety of topics. We regularly organise short courses and conferences to disseminate clinical and research findings.
The Centre's cutting edge neuroscientific and psychosocial research is carried out in collaboration with the Yale University Child Study Center and the Menninger Department of Psychiatry at Baylor Medical College. The Centre's historic links with Yale University have now been renewed through the new Anna Freud Centre/Yale Child Study Center Bridge Programme. Research teams from the Menninger Department of Psychiatry, the Anna Freud Centre and Yale Child Study Center form a developmental and clinical psychoanalytically inspired research consortium.
We have recently established an Academic Faculty for Empirical, Theoretical & Conceptual Psychoanalytic Research and Clinical Analysis at the Centre.
The Centre is committed to the systematic reviewing of mental health interventions for children and young people in order to ensure that the most effective treatments are offered to children and families in need. The UK Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Evidence Based Practice Unit (EBPU), established in 2006, is based at The Anna Freud Centre. This academic unit, which is part of UCL, aims to develop and disseminate information about the latest research relating to helping children, young people and their families with emotional and psychological difficulties. The EBPU is the home of the CAMHS Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC), a learning collaboration between mental health professionals across the UK and Norway.