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  • How do therapists assess suitability? A qualitative study exploring therapists' judgements of treatment suitability for depressed adolescents

    The study aimed to explore how therapists working with depressed teenagers make judgements about treatment suitability across three treatment modalities: (a) Short-term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, (b) Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, and (c) Brief Psychosocial Intervention. Authors: Nakajima, M., Dykiert, D., Wilkinson, P. & Midgley, N. (2021).

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  • A qualitative study of parents’ understanding and motivation to take part in a randomised controlled trial in the field of adolescent mental health

    This study aimed to investigate parents’ perspectives on participating in a trial for psychological treatment of depression. The study explored parents’ motivations, understanding of the trial and perspectives on the acceptability of the trial. Authors: O'Keeffe, S., Weitkamp, K., Isaacs. D., Target, M., Eatough, V., & Midgley, N. (2020).

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  • “I didn’t have to look her in the eyes” – participants’ experiences of the therapeutic relationship in internet-based psychodynamic therapy for adolescent depression

    This study aims to explore young people's perceptions of the relationship with the therapist in internet-based psychodynamic treatment for adolescent depression. Authors: Lindqvist, K., Mechler, J., Midgley, N., Carlbring, P., Carstorp, K., Neikter, H. K., Strid, F., Below. C. V., & Philips, B. (2022).

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  • Therapists' techniques in the treatment of adolescent depression

    The aims of this study were: to establish the fidelity of two established psychological therapies – cognitive behavioural therapy and short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy – in the treatment of adolescent depression; and to examine whether they were delivered with adherence to their respective treatment modalities, and if they could be differentiated from each other and from a reference treatment (a brief psychosocial intervention; BPI). Authors: Midgley, N., Reynolds, S., Kelvin, R., Loades, M., Calderon, A., Martin, P., & O'Keeffe, S. (2018).

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  • ‘I just stopped going’: a mixed methods investigation into types of therapy dropout in adolescents with depression

    This study aimed to identify whether there were more meaningful categories of dropout than the existing dropout definition, and to test whether this refined categorization of dropout was associated with clinical outcomes. Authors: O'Keefe, S., Martin, P., Target, M., & Midgley, N. (2019).

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  • Prognostic implications for adolescents with depression who drop out of psychological treatment during a randomised controlled trial

    This study aimed to examine clinical outcomes in adolescents with depression who dropped out of psychological therapy and to determine whether this varied by treatment type. Authors: O'Keefe, S., Martin, P., Goodyer, I. M., Kelvin, R., Dubicka, B., IMPACT Consortium., & Midgley, N. (2019).

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  • Exploring the structure, quality, and associations of Palestinian mothers’ high-risk mental representations in war conditions

    This pilot study examines the feasibility of a novel coding system for the Parent Development Interview (PDI) interview (ARR, Assessment of Representational Risk) in assessing 50 war-exposed Palestinian mothers’ caregiving representations. Authors: Isoavi, S. & Sleed, M. (2020).

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  • The factor structure of the Working Alliance Inventory short-form in youth psychotherapy: an empirical investigation

    This study investigated the factor structure of the WAI-S in psychotherapy for adolescent depression and explored its measurement invariance across time, therapeutic approaches and patients’ and therapists’ perspectives. Authors: Cirsola, A., Midgley, N., Fonagy, P., Impact Consortium, Martin, P. (2020).

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  • When adolescents stop psychological therapy: rupture-repair in the therapeutic alliance and association with therapy ending

    This study investigated whether markers of rupture–repair in the alliance were indicative of different types of treatment ending in adolescents receiving psychological treatment for depression. Authors: O'Keefe, S., Martin, P., & Midgley, N. (2020).

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