Fiorini, Guilherme;
Westlake, Meryl;
Chokhani, Ritika;
Javed, Maryam;
Norcop, Holly;
Midgley, Nick;
(2024)
Children and young people's experience of psychoanalytic psychotherapy: a qualitative meta-synthesis.
Journal of Child Psychotherapy
, 50
(2)
pp. 278-305.
10.1080/0075417X.2024.2349225.
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Abstract
The development of evidence-based practice guidelines for psychotherapy is based primarily on the findings from randomised controlled trials, but there is also a need to understand and learn from the experience of those who attend therapy. Some studies have begun to examine the experience of children and adolescents who have been in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. However, no investigations to date have synthesised this body of work and drawn clinical implications from this research. Therefore, this study aimed to provide the first qualitative meta-synthesis of empirical studies examining children and young people’s experiences of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Articles meeting the inclusion criteria (n = 11) addressed treatments taking place in the UK, Scandinavia and Western Europe, and most of them focused on those who were in therapy as adolescents. The overall methodological quality of the studies was high. Based on the qualitative meta-synthesis, four over-arching themes were identified: (1) Children and adolescents learn to navigate their role during therapy; (2) The importance of the therapeutic relationship; (3) Psychoanalytic psychotherapy as a ‘painful’ process; and (4) Perceived impact of psychotherapy varies and is difficult to gauge. Some of the findings were consistent with the literature on adults’ experiences of psychoanalytic therapy, as well as young people’s experiences of other types of therapy. However, the findings also point to certain unique features of psychoanalytic psychotherapy for children and adolescents. The clinical implications of the findings are discussed.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Children and young people's experience of psychoanalytic psychotherapy: a qualitative meta-synthesis |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0075417X.2024.2349225 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0075417x.2024.2349225 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
| Keywords: | Psychoanalytic psychotherapy, child and adolescent psychotherapy, qualitative methods, meta-synthesis, systematic review |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10193012 |
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