Michelle Sleed, Senior Research Fellow

Michelle is a senior research fellow and research tutor at the Anna Freud Centre. She is also the research tutor for two University College London postgraduate programmes: the MSc in Developmental Psychology and Clinical Practice and the PsychD in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy. She runs several training courses relating to early years research and parenting assessments, including the training in Reflective Functioning on the Parent Development Interview.

Her research is mainly in the area of early parent-infant attachment and infant development, with a specific focus on parental representations and mentalization.

Randomised controlled trial of Parent-Infant Psychotherapy

Evaluation of New Beginnings: An attachment-based intervention for parents and infants

The Assessment of Representational Risk (ARR)

Ostensive Cues

Microanalysis of Clinical Process in Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy

Evaluation of Parent-Infant Psychotherapy (PIP) training and supervision for staff delivering baby groups in Luton

Lighthouse MBT-P

Ongoing

Evaluation of parent-infant groups in universal health services

Evaluation of Lighthouse^© MBT-Parenting Programme

Sleed, M., Slade, A. & Fonagy, P. (2018). Reflective Functioning on the Parent Development Interview: Validity and reliability in relation to socio-demographic factors. Attachment & Human Development. doi: 10.1080/14616734.2018.1555603

Byrne, G., Sleed, M., Midgley, N., Fearon, P. et al. (2018). Lighthouse Parenting Programme: Description and pilot evaluation of Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) to address child maltreatment. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. doi: 1359104518807741

Sleed, M., Baradon, T. & Fonagy, P. (2013). New Beginnings for mothers and babies in prison: A cluster randomized controlled trial. Attachment and Human Development, 15(4), 349-367.

For a full list of publications, click here.

Reflective Functioning on the Parent Development Interview

Assessment of Parental Representations

Current PhD students

Eva Sprecher (2018-). Measuring mentalization of foster carers regarding Looked-After-Children and its impact upon the mental health outcomes of children in care