From Less to More: The clinician’s experience of the transition from non-intensive to intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy with looked-after and adopted children
Semi-structured interviews with clinicians examined moving looked-after and adopted children from weekly psychotherapy to three sessions a week. Reflexive thematic analysis described complex transitions that could feel disruptive and the need to prepare for changes in treatment frequency. Some accounts suggested weekly treatment could remain preferable for particular children.
Limitations: Clinician interpretations do not establish comparative effectiveness of treatment frequencies. Adoption and other care histories are combined. The abstract does not state sample size or provide adoptee-specific results.
- 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: Lasserson psychotherapy frequency transition 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, professional perspectives, Psychotherapy
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Country as recorded: United Kingdom (regional recruitment not established)
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