Nick Midgley is Professor of Psychological Therapies with Children and Young People at UCL, and co-director of the Child Attachment and Psychological Therapies Research Unit (ChAPTRe), based at UCL and the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, London. His recent books include, Essential Research Findings for Child and Adolescent Counselling and Psychotherapy (Sage, 2017), Mentalization-Based Treatment for Children: a time-limited approach (APA, 2017), and So Young, So Sad, So Listen. A parents’ guide to depression in children and young people (CUP). Prof. Midgley was the winner of the BACP’s Outstanding Research Award in 2019.
Nick Midgley
Nick Midgley is Professor of Psychological Therapies with Children and Young People at UCL, and co-director of the Child Attachment and Psychological Therapies Research Unit (ChAPTRe), based at UCL and the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, London. His recent books include, Essential Research Findings for Child and Adolescent Counselling and Psychotherapy (Sage, 2017), Mentalization-Based Treatment for Children: a time-limited approach (APA, 2017), and So Young, So Sad, So Listen. A parents’ guide to depression in children and young people (CUP). Prof. Midgley was the winner of the BACP’s Outstanding Research Award in 2019.
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Psychodynamic therapy with children and young people – where’s the evidence?
For many years psychoanalytic and psychodynamic therapies have been considered to lack a credible evidence base. Partly this has been due to a degree of reluctance among psychodynamic practitioners to support the kind of empirical research that would help to establish such an evidence base.
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