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  • Alliance Rupture and Repair in Adolescent Psychotherapy: What Clinicians Can Learn From Research

    This review highlights the importance of the therapeutic alliance in adolescent psychotherapy, offering evidence-based recommendations for building strong alliances and addressing alliance ruptures effectively.

    Authors: Cirasola, A., Fonagy, P., & Midgley, N.

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  • “You can’t really have a relationship with them because they just ask you questions”: understanding adolescent dropout – an empirical single case study

    This study explored dropout in adolescent psychoanalytic therapy, finding unresolved alliance ruptures, low trust, and minimal parental involvement contributed to poor outcomes.

    Authors: Cirasola, A., Szegedi, D., Fonagy, P. et al.

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  • Transference work and the repair of ruptures in psychoanalytic psychotherapy with depressed adolescents

    This study found that transference work in short-term psychoanalytic therapy can help repair alliance ruptures in adolescent depression, especially when applied flexibly and empathetically.

    Authors: Cirasola, A., Heller, O., & Midgley, N.

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  • Using large language models (LLMs) to detect outcomes in qualitative studies of adolescent depression

    This study shows LLMs can identify nuanced therapy outcomes in adolescent depression interviews, enabling finer-grained analysis to support clinical decision-making.

    Authors: Xin, A. W., Nielson, D.M., Krause, K. et al.

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  • The Thoughtful program: a randomized controlled study of a mentalization-based mental health education intervention in a psychiatric outpatient population

    This study tested a low-cost, mentalization-based group programme in psychiatric outpatients. It improved mentalizing and well-being, while reducing service use over 6 months.

    Authors: Lundgaard, P., Lundgaard, L. & Midgley, N.

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  • Mentalization, theory of mind and socioemotional development in middle childhood

    This study explores how Theory of Mind and mentalization interact in children aged 8–10, showing mentalization supports self-agency, age-related growth, and socioemotional development.

    Authors: Locati, F., Conte, F., Ensink, K. et al.

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  • Introduction to Mentalization-Based Approaches for Parents, Children, Youths, and Families

    This article aims to introduce and briefly describe how the concept of mentalization can provide a useful framework for clinicians to understand psychopathology of children, youths, and families.

    Authors: Volkert, J., Taubner, S., Byrne, G. et al.

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  • User Satisfaction with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Factor Structure of the Experience of Service Questionnaire (ESQ) in Norway and the UK

    The aim of this research was to explore how the items on the experience of service questionnaire (ESQ) are grouped together based on their relationships (i.e. how strongly they correlate) to explore any underlying factors or dimensions.

    Authors: Arnesen, Y., Handegård, B. H., Mathiassen, et al.

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  • A roundtable discussion: addressing the complexities of risk in supported accommodation

    The roundtable was held following doctoral research by Anna Freud and University College London exploring the mental health difficulties and risk-taking behaviours among children and young people living in children’s homes and unregulated semi-independent accommodation.

    Authors: Westlake, MF., Stemp R., Simonnds, J.

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