Research Library

This study explores how to improve inclusion in children’s social care trials. Learning from the Reflective Fostering Study, researchers identified barriers for underserved groups and adapted recruitment processes, leading to improved representation and recommendations for more inclusive future research.

Mentalization-Based Treatment for Developmental Trauma presents a transdiagnostic approach to supporting traumatised children. Drawing on global clinical expertise, it shows how MBT can help children regulate emotions, strengthen relationships, and support carers across a range of settings.

Reproductive history and family composition are key in reproductive and infant psychology, yet research often centres on biological parents. This editorial explores why inclusive questions matter and the challenges of capturing diverse caregiving arrangements.

This systematic review examines how parenting interventions addressing interparental conflict affect co-parenting relationships, parenting behaviour and child outcomes, and highlights their impact alongside key gaps in the current evidence base.

This study tested ReSET, a school-based programme helping teens build emotional and social skills to prevent mental health issues. Results showed it was feasible, well-received, and linked to positive experiences and benefits.

This review examined short-term psychoanalytic therapy for depressed teenagers, finding that a strong therapist–teen relationship is crucial. It offers insights to enhance therapist training and improve outcomes.

This study explored foster and kinship carers’ experiences of the Reflective Fostering Programme. Most found it improved relationships and stress management, though some were unsure of its relevance, suggesting a need for better tailoring.

This study analysed how therapists use questions in psychoanalytic sessions with depressed adolescents, finding frequent questioning. Questions voicing unspoken negative feelings often prompted avoidance, offering insights for improving therapy techniques.

This review found foster care research often underrepresents groups such as kinship and non-White carers and rarely addresses inclusivity, calling for more representative, inclusive research practices.