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  • The Unbroken Circle: From Child Analysis to Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) with Children, Adolescents, and Families

    This article highlights how developments in child analysis at Anna Freud crucially shaped the evolution of mentalization-based treatment (MBT), alongside its better-known influences.

    Authors: Midgley, N.

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  • Internet-Delivered Affect-Focused Psychodynamic Therapy for Adolescent Depression: Treatment Principles and Clinical Application in the ERiCA Project

    This article presents the development and evaluation of an Internet-delivered psychodynamic therapy (IPDT) program for adolescent depression, highlighting its potential for clinical use and future research.

    Authors: Mechler, J., Lindqvist, K., Philips, B. et al.

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  • Alliance Rupture and Repair in Adolescent Psychotherapy: What Clinicians Can Learn From Research

    This review highlights the importance of the therapeutic alliance in adolescent psychotherapy, offering evidence-based recommendations for building strong alliances and addressing alliance ruptures effectively.

    Authors: Cirasola, A., Fonagy, P., & Midgley, N.

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  • “You can’t really have a relationship with them because they just ask you questions”: understanding adolescent dropout – an empirical single case study

    This study explored dropout in adolescent psychoanalytic therapy, finding unresolved alliance ruptures, low trust, and minimal parental involvement contributed to poor outcomes.

    Authors: Cirasola, A., Szegedi, D., Fonagy, P. et al.

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  • Transference work and the repair of ruptures in psychoanalytic psychotherapy with depressed adolescents

    This study found that transference work in short-term psychoanalytic therapy can help repair alliance ruptures in adolescent depression, especially when applied flexibly and empathetically.

    Authors: Cirasola, A., Heller, O., & Midgley, N.

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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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  • Treatment “non-responders”: The experience of short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy among depressed adolescents, their parents and therapists

    A study on non-responders to short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy (STPP).

    Authors: Fiorini, G., Khoe, Z., Fonagy, P., & Midgley, N.

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  • Study protocol for a pragmatic randomised multiple baseline trial evaluating Knowledge Insight Tools (KIT)

    This study describes the plans for our evaluation of a counselling intervention ('Knowledge Insight Tools or 'KIT') delivered in secondary schools for young people who struggle with anxiety and/or low mood. In collaboration with Place2Be.

    Authors: Constantinou, M. P., Stepanous, J., Lereya, S. T., et al.

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  • “I can’t escape my scars, even if I do get better”: A qualitative exploration of how adolescents talk about their self-harm and self-harm scars during cognitive behavioural therapy for depression

    This study aimed to explore how depressed adolescents talk about their self-harm behaviours and their self-harm scars during therapy for depression. The findings of this study suggest that it could be helpful for therapists to consider how wider sociocultural beliefs around self-harm may impact how teenagers talk about their self-harm and scars in treatment for depression.

    Authors: Kristen, A., Lecchi, T., Loades, M., & Midgley, N.

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