child psychotherapy and research
Like all professionals working within the NHS, child psychotherapists are under pressure to demonstrate effective outcomes and to enrich the evidence base of the discipline. How are practicing child psychotherapists to respond to the research agenda?
In this talk I will, firstly, outline some different ways of conceiving the relationship between scientific research and practice for mental health professionals in general and, secondly,... more
[This abstract set into this paper by the archivist on 2/2014 – it was saved by CU on 14/9/08 20:37 and saved in a separate file to the body of this piece below]
There are historical, social and cultural variations in how emotional and mental health are thought about and believed to develop and the place of children in society. Historical and cross-cultural comparisons can sharpen thinking about strengths and lacunae of child... more
One challenge for Infant mental health research is to bring the clinician’s sensitivity together with the rigour that we have come to associate with Attachment Theory. To what extent, for example, can research instruments generate findings directly applicable to working with vulnerable parents and babies? One difficulty is that research and clinical work, such as attachment research and psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapy, use... more
In the first part of the workshop I will talk about the history and nature of infant observation. It was initially introduced into the newly emergent training for child psychotherapists set up at the Tavistock Centre in the late nineteen forties by a Kleinian psychoanalyst called Esther Bick. During the war years the so-called Controversial Discussions had divided the British Psychoanalytic Society. A crucial issue had been what kinds of... more
This paper describes a CU’s participation in a project based at the Oslo Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS), within the Norwegian Academy for Science and Letters, addressing Personal development and socio-cultural change. What brought the group of 21 ‘Fellows’ together was a shared ‘psycho-social’ commitment to understanding the personal in the socio-cultural and the socio-cultural in the personal. It had been decided that, during CU’s time... more
