Research Library

This study investigated different types of internet-based psychotherapy.

Researchers found that teenagers fall into four distinct groups based on how they understand emotions and trust others. This study examined these groups and identified specific patterns within them.

This study looked at behaviour problems in children aged four to 11 who were living in foster care. It examined how these children thought about themselves, other people and the world around them.

This study examines how three adopted adult women who experienced childhood maltreatment have managed their emotions and relationships over time.

In this study, we created a mini-classroom and ran an experiment with autistic and non-autistic children, to look at how classroom sensory features impacted the amount of time children spent engaged in a reading comprehension task, or ‘off-task’.

This review of 23 studies found that poorer mentalization skills in adolescents are moderately linked to higher anxiety, depression, and internalizing symptoms, highlighting its role in supporting teen mental health.

This study evaluated online psychodynamic therapy for adolescents with depression, finding improvements in mood, anxiety, and emotion regulation for completers, but recruitment challenges under new EU rules led to early discontinuation.

This study of 400+ clinically depressed adolescents found self-criticism linked to more severe mental health and relationship difficulties than dependency, with a gender-mismatch effect heightening anxiety and suicidal thoughts.

This qualitative study explores support for those bereaved by youth violence, finding significant gaps in availability, access and quality, particularly for siblings, extended family, peers and young people.