{"title":"Child and Adolescent Psychodynamic Therapy: Using Q-Methodology in Process Research","authors":"G. Goodman","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2021.2022419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2021.2022419","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Psychotherapy for children and adolescents has been shown to be generally effective in treating a wide variety of psychological problems. In spite of this success, the field has been slow to identify the key therapeutic processes responsible for changes in psychiatric symptoms, emotional well-being, social relationships, and school functioning observed across theoretically different treatment models. The child and adolescent psychodynamic psychotherapy literature lags far behind the adult literature in assessing the change processes associated with the successful treatment of children and adolescents. This article reviews the rapidly growing literature engaged in the pursuit of articulating the change processes associated with successful treatment outcomes for children and adolescents. Two classes of change processes are reviewed: interaction structures (i.e., patterns of reciprocal therapist-patient interaction) and adherence to “brand-name” treatment models (e.g., child psychodynamic therapy). Researchers have used children’s psychiatric diagnoses most commonly as moderators of significant process-outcome associations. This article will explore the contributions of the Child Psychotherapy Q-Set (CPQ) and Adolescent Psychotherapy Q-Set (APQ) to this field of study, while also reviewing some of the data analytic strategies used. Finally, an outline of the future directions of child and adolescent psychodynamic psychotherapy process research using the CPQ and APQ is suggested.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41313999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to the Section: Widening the Scope of Psychodynamic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Research: Recent Applications and New Directions","authors":"S. Halfon","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2021.2022418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2021.2022418","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Recent developments in psychodynamic work with children and adolescents have made empirical research a higher priority in the field. In order to support the evidence-base of psychodynamic child and adolescent psychotherapy, more research is needed to identify the underlying therapeutic processes that make psychodynamic psychotherapy effective for different kinds of children and adolescents and contribute to the literature on therapeutic mechanisms of change. Drawing on the expertise of a range of contributors, this special section describes recent child and adolescent psychodynamic psychotherapy research illustrating a range of quantitative and qualitative methodologies that have been developed to investigate different clinical phenomena, processes of psychotherapy and outcome. These papers will serve as a vital resource helping researchers and clinicians develop clinically relevant research agendas to improve clinical practice and care with children and adolescents.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41767096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Addendum to the Introduction for “9/11 Twenty Years On: Fractured Identities; Fear of the Other; Forging a New Path for Our Children”","authors":"C. Lament, Naghma Mimi Ismi","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2022.2030642","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2022.2030642","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48491280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Internal Worlds of Sexually Abused Looked-After Children","authors":"J. Mackin, S. Hillman, R. Cross, K. Anderson","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2021.2022413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2021.2022413","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study seeks to further elucidate the internal worlds of sexually abused “looked-after” children using quantitative and psychodynamic qualitative methods. It employs Story Stem Assessment Profile (SSAP) data to explore representations of self and other within a latency-aged (5–10 years) sample who are “looked-after” and were known to have experienced historical sexual abuse (SA). The SSAP’s coding system is harnessed for comparisons of SA children with both generic maltreated (MALT) and normative (COMM) groups, and a psychoanalytically informed thematic analysis of the narrative data is undertaken to shed light on unconscious patterns of representation. Eight codes that were statistically significant for the SA group were explored alongside three key qualitative themes (blurred boundaries, sense of threat and sound). The study presents considerations for future research and clinical intervention by illustrating how the impact of sexual abuse can manifest in children’s internal worlds.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46759889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bringing Reflective Functioning to the Community: Aspects of psychotherapy process in the Group Attachment Based Intervention","authors":"M. Steele, H. Steele, A. Murphy","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2021.2022417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2021.2022417","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This special section dedicated to papers concerned with change processes in psychodynamic child and adolescent psychotherapy poses a set of interesting questions. What makes an intervention psychodynamic? How do we measure psychotherapy process? How can we bring psychodynamically-oriented treatment to a wider community, especially those that would not otherwise have access? These questions highlight the rich dialogue that can take place when we draw on psychoanalytic constructs and techniques to inform clinically relevant research, and then extrapolate these, to bring treatment to where they are desperately needed.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43507531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Upon the 75th Anniversary of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","authors":"C. Lament","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2022.2030134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2022.2030134","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As the outgoing editor-in-chief of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, I offer my reflections upon the seventy-fifth volume as I look back at the inception of the series in 1945, and my impressions about then and now. While there are most certainly remarkable differences in the zeitgeist, both in terms of culture, the larger social polity, and shifts in psychoanalytic interests, there are also similarities between these two eras which link them in surprising ways.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44979894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When the Analytic Field Becomes a Minefield: Analyzing in the Post-9/11 Era","authors":"A. Abbasi","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2021.2016314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2021.2016314","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper addresses major changes that occurred in the analytic discourse between the author and her patients, following the catastrophe of 9/11. The author, an immigrant analyst, discusses new realizations she developed about herself during this period. She offers clinical examples to illustrate that an analyst’s brutal honesty with herself, about difficult feelings that sometimes come to light as a result of external events, allows her analytic patients to reach parts of themselves that might otherwise have been kept concealed in the analysis.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45057064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An American Identity: The Shifting Sands of Democracy","authors":"Monisha C. Nayar-Akhtar","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2021.2016312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2021.2016312","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The bombings of the World Trade Twin Towers, New York, on September 11th, 2001, marked a turning point in American history. This paper explicates on the impact that this terrorist act on American soil had on an emerging nascent and complex multicultural identity. Informed by both my personal and professional life, the analytic work with Marianna, a young adult, sheds some light on internal and external factors that contribute to a feeling of safety in a world that feels increasingly unsafe.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46869932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ralph Greenson’s Child Analytic Understanding and Technique: A Heuristic Examination","authors":"A. Sugarman","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2021.2016313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2021.2016313","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Despite Ralph Greenson not being a child analyst, his two papers on the analysis of a gender-disordered boy offer a heuristic opportunity to consider current controversies in child analysis. Thus, his material is examined in terms of current considerations about how to understand and work with such disturbances, the distinctions between being a developmental object and providing a corrective emotional experience, the role and place of play in clinical technique, the analyst’s role as a real object, and the importance of promoting a sense of self-agency in child analysis. Greenson’s relatively sophisticated dynamic formulation of the boy’s gender issues is contrasted with his unidimensional technical approach with its deemphasis of insight into and articulation of the boy’s internal/subjective world. This approach limited the boy’s opportunity to achieve insightfulness and to terminate analysis with a sense of self-agency. It also could have left him vulnerable to later depression during adolescence because he never realized or mastered the complex emotions, conflicts, and relationship with his parents that contributed to his wishes to be and act like a girl. Instead, he altered his behavior to comply with his analyst’s wish that he act in a stereotypically masculine way.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45185438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Brief History of Child Psychoanalytic Training","authors":"Pamela Meersand","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2021.2006556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2021.2006556","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper traces the history of child psychoanalytic education, with emphasis on Anna Freud’s vision of training as inseparable from observation and research, from the issues of children’s education and upbringing, and from service to marginalized families. Historical obstacles to the formalization of child training – lack of parity for non-medical practitioners, organizational hierarchies, negative attitudes toward child work – are reviewed, as well as the pathways by which leaders in the field ultimately surmounted these hindrances, allowing child psychoanalytic centers to develop and create novel training models. In conclusion, the author draws from this complex history to propose a number of potential future directions that might help revitalize contemporary training programs.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58906468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}