Intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy with looked after and adopted children: Exploring the experiences and perspectives of trainee Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists
Five trainee child and adolescent psychotherapists were interviewed about intensive treatment of looked-after and adopted children in CAMHS. Reflexive thematic analysis described trauma and loss, ambivalence and violence in therapy, pressures on professional collaboration, and the role of supervision and developmental work.
Limitations: This describes trainees’ perspectives rather than children’s own accounts or measured treatment outcomes. Adoption and other care placements are combined, with no adoptee-only count. Five interviews and a specialist therapy setting limit generalisation.
- 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: Hadary intensive LAAC psychotherapy 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
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: United Kingdom (regional recruitment not established)
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- Adoptee involvement
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