Research Library

This study examined how young people are involved in school and community mental health initiatives across six local authorities in England. Using Davies’s Matrix Model, it categorised 76 participation activities, highlighting varied approaches and impacts.

This review explores universal school-based interventions for emotional outcomes in young people, going beyond anxiety and depression to include wider symptoms and new studies, particularly the growing focus on mindfulness in schools.

This study reviews community-based interventions for youth mental health in rural areas. Evidence from 12 publications shows positive impacts on wellbeing and community ties, though further research is needed.

This paper provides guidance for school-based intervention research, adapting an existing framework and using the BLOCS maths study as a case to show methods and address challenges in school settings.

This study explores how transference work (TW) in short-term psychoanalytic therapy helps repair alliance ruptures with adolescents. TW focused on immediate relationship issues supports rupture resolution, while rigidity or dependency can hinder progress.

This study examines how young children recognise and sometimes confuse emotions, such as mistaking feelings for anger, without impacting social development, highlighting areas for further research.

This study examines the relationship between levels of dissociation, several pre-placement factors and other background variables to facilitate the understanding of the high prevalence of dissociation in adolescents living in care.

A book chapter on attachment theory in looked-after children examining needs, challenges and evidence.

This study assessed attachment representations in 28 Danish foster children (ages 4–10) using the Story Stem Assessment Profile (SSAP). Participants were enrolled in a trial comparing Mentalization-Based Family Therapy (MBT) to Care as Usual (CAU).