“Shifting between the internal and external”: Psychoanalytic ways of working with children in local authority care
A survey of 215 UK child psychotherapists, interviews with nine consultant psychotherapists and an ethnographic service case study examined work with adopted and looked-after children. The analysis described attention to professional and caregiving networks and tensions between network-focused work and requests for individual child therapy.
Limitations: The evidence comes from professionals and service observations rather than adoptees describing therapy or controlled measurement of outcomes. Adoption and other care circumstances were combined; findings cannot establish treatment effectiveness.
- 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: Not recorded
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, professional perspectives
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: United Kingdom
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