The Building of Epistemic Trust: An Adoptive Family’s Experience of Mentalization-Based Therapy
Two in-depth interviews with an adoptive family, including two daughters, explored trust in mentalization-based therapy. Interpretative phenomenological analysis identified earlier experiences of mistrust and features of therapy associated with feeling understood and trusting professionals. Participants described some transfer of trust to relationships beyond therapy.
Limitations: One family deliberately selected after a positive treatment outcome. Findings cannot establish effectiveness or represent all adoptees. Family members’ accounts are combined. This is a sub-study of the Adopting Minds service evaluation. The study concerns the Adopting Minds post-adoption therapy service. Interviewers report no prior relationship with the family or therapist.
- Research type
- Qualitative single-family case study
- Source reviewed
- Full text
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Age group
- Mixed
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: mixed
Adoption context: Adoption from care
Programme: Adopting Minds mentalization-based family therapy
Institutional context: Adoption-sector service evaluation
The study concerns the Adopting Minds post-adoption therapy service. Interviewers report no prior relationship with the family or therapist.
Relationship identified. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: adoptee voice, mental health, post-adoption support, Relationships
Review scope: Source checked: Full text. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: England
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