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  • Introduction to Mentalization-Based Approaches for Parents, Children, Youths, and Families

    This article aims to introduce and briefly describe how the concept of mentalization can provide a useful framework for clinicians to understand psychopathology of children, youths, and families.

    Authors: Volkert, J., Taubner, S., Byrne, G. et al.

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  • How inclusive and representative is research on foster caring in the UK? Findings from a scoping review

    The importance of inclusivity and representation is increasingly recognised in fostering services and within research to ensure that services are meeting the needs of all the diverse communities they aim to support.

    Authors: Stemp, R., Izzidien, S., Sharma, et al.

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  • Goal-oriented practices in youth mental health and wellbeing settings: A scoping review and thematic analysis of empirical evidence

    This is a literature review focused on what evidence is available to explore goal-oriented therapeutic practices in children and young people's mental health and wellbeing settings.

    Authors: Jacob, J., Wozney, L., Oddli, H. et al.

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  • Children and young people’s experience of psychoanalytic psychotherapy: A qualitative meta-synthesis

    This study aimed to provide the first qualitative meta-synthesis of empirical studies examining children and young people’s experiences of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

    Authors: Fiorini, G., Westlake, M., Chokhani, R., et al.

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  • Digital Psychotherapies for Adults Experiencing Depressive Symptoms: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    This review examined digital psychotherapies, focusing on common types, the experiences of clients and practitioners, and their effectiveness for treating adult depression.

    Authors: Thurston, J. O., Supritha, A., Liverpool, S. et al.

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  • The lived experience of co-production: Reflective accounts from the InCLUDE project

    This paper documents the practicalities, learnings and challenges of co-producing a research project, drawing on personal diaries kept by four researchers who co-produced the InCLUDE project.

    Authors: Izzidien, S., & Stemp, R., Akram, S., et al.

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  • Collaboration and Co-production in Child Psychology: Pathways to Good Practice

    This book chapter focuses on how to work with children, young people and their families to improve services.

    Authors: Bailey, P., Book authors: Norris, C., Pote, H., & Picciotto, A.

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  • Does qualifying route inform preparedness for child protection practice? An appraisal of the testimonies of 201 ‘early career’ social workers

    England’s children’s social care workforce is in a state of crisis, with the problem perhaps more prominent in the field of child protection. This study explored the impact of social work qualification route on early career social workers’ sense of preparedness for child protection practice.

    Authors: Murphy, C., Liverpool, S., Parry, N., Birch, N., Turay, J.

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  • Parental Mentalizing in the Child Protection Context: Research and Clinical Perspectives

    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.

    Authors: Sleed, M., Byrne, G., Fiorini, G.

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