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We interviewed professionals who had referred young people for support from Community Forensic Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (Community F:CAMHS). This research came out of our evaluation of Community F:CAMHS, commissioned by NHS England and NHS Improvement. This research specifically explored referrers' experiences of the consultation and liaison model of Community F:CAMHS.

The Lighthouse Parenting Programme (LPP) is a multifamily mentalization-based intervention for parents with child protection service involvement. The Supporting Parents Project was a randomized controlled trial of the LPP being delivered by children’s social care services.

This paper reviews and summarizes the research on parental mentalizing using the Parent Development Interview and the Reflective Functioning coding. It also describes the future developments for the measure.

This narrative review synthesizes empirical evidence on epistemic trust to inform future research. A literature search highlighted 3 areas: i) the development of selective trust in children; ii) epistemic trust in non-clinical adults; iii) its link to mental health.

The findings suggest that ET might be a transdiagnostic factor playing different roles associated with adolescent psychopathology.

In this study, multilevel modelling analyses showed children with higher emotional lability benefited more from attention control interventions compared to those with lower emotional lability.

There are opportunities and challenges in the delivery of online therapeutic services, particularly those with a group format. This paper contributes initial reflections to what we hope will be a rapidly developing literature on best practice of supporting group services in an online format.

This study investigated the link between a foster carer's ability to mentalize and how this impacted on the emotional regulation of a child they care for. It used detailed analysis of video recordings of interactions between one foster carer and one child in their care. This study used data from a project called the Relationship Stories study, that is part of the Reflective Fostering Study funded by the NIHR.

This trial is the first experimental study of a family therapeutic intervention based on attachment theory for foster families within the Scandinavian context.