Beginnings of Psychotherapy with Adopted Children and Young People: A Grounded Theory Analysis
Researchers analysed therapist process notes from three initial psychotherapy sessions for each of three adopted patients. Psychoanalytically informed grounded theory identified themes concerning setting, difficulties relating, changes in technique, non-verbal communication, mutual niceness, exclusion and deprivation.
Limitations: Three patients and nine session records cannot represent all adoptees or establish therapy efficacy. Notes were written by therapists after sessions, rather than independent observations or interviews asking adoptees how they experienced treatment.
- Research type
- Doctoral thesis
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- No
- Age group
- Children / Adolescents
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Children / adolescents
Adoption context: Mixed adoption pathways
Programme: Gandz opening psychotherapy sessions study
Institutional context: No relationship identified in the material checked
No adoption-sector organisational relationship identified from metadata reviewed. Funding and conflicts were not comprehensively audited; this is not confirmation of institutional independence.
Bibliographic screening. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: mental health, post-adoption support, research methodology
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: United Kingdom
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