The following gives a listing of the majority of our recently completed or continuing projects
Programme 1
The processes and outcomes of psychotherapeutic treatment across the lifespan
- A study of relapse and maintenance of treatment gains following cognitive-behavioural pain management
- Randomised controlled trial of group interactive art therapy as an adjunctive treatment in severe mental illness
- A RCT to assess the incremental costs and clinical benefits of cognitive analytic therapy to standard care within community mental health teams in the treatment of severe personality disorder
- Psychotherapy outcome for sexually abused girls
- Experience of child sexual abuse and evaluation of treatment programmes
- Health economic evaluation of the NCH CSA programme
- Psychotherapy for childhood depression
- Historical and precipitating factors and response to treatment of doctors receiving psychotherapy for psychological breakdown*
- Childhood autism and psychotherapy: a new approach
- Childhood autism & psychotherapy
- A randomised controlled trial of psychoanalytic group psychotherapy for patients with paedophilic conviction
- Tavistock Adult Depression Study (RCT of individual analytic psychotherapy cf. treatment as usual in primary care for refractory depression)
- The efficacy of long-term individual psychotherapy with learning disabled patients
- Outcome study of psychoanalytic group psychotherapy for the siblings of children with autism
- An outcome study of psychoanalytic group psychotherapy
- Experiences of speaking more than one language and their implications for systemic psychotherapy
Programme 2
The significance of interpersonal relationships for the origins and psychotherapeutically informed management of severe mental disorders, including personality disorders.
- Precursors of children's communication disorders: early detection and intervention
- The influence of maternal eating disorder on child development: an investigation of intergenerational transmission of disturbance*
- Sharing the diagnosis of breast cancer with their children: helping mothers to manage
- Adult attachment security and patterns of marital relationships
- Symbolic play in congenitally blind children
- Families, children and child care: the influence of different forms of early child care on child development
- Reflective self-function and early social experience in adults with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)*
- Object Relations and the risk of suicide in adolescence
- Attachment patterns in mentally disordered offenders*
- An exploratory study in to the phenomenology and perceived function of self-mutilation in adolescents, particularly with regard to the functions of shame and anger
- The process of child development in the context of maternal eating disorder: a sibling study
- Patterns of mother-infant relations: maternal personality disorder and the course of infant development*
- Childhood origins of depression and criminality
- The act of violence research
- The origins and nature of sexual offending against children and implications for outcome of treatment
- Role-taking in autism
- Videoed case studies of the process of assessment of autistic children and their families
- Social engagement in autism
- Imitation in autism
- Non-verbal communication in autistic adolescents
- "Reversible autism"? The natural history of "autism" in congenital blindness
- Retrospective study of elective mutism
- The perception of visual stimuli by children with Asperger's syndrome and its relationship to analytic therapy
- The development and application of a parental interview (DAISI) to determine social impairments and identify autism in infancy
- Emotional and behavioural disorders among strictly Orthodox Jewish children
- Patterns of mother-infant relations: maternal borderline personality disorder and infant development
- Mental representation in women with borderline personality disorder (BPD)
- Interpersonal timing in autism
- Interpersonal engagement and communication in young people with autism
- Self in relation to others: A novel approach to the study of verbal and non-verbal communication in autism and learning disability
Programme 3
The impact of psychological, social and organisational functioning on Health and Social Care, including interventions for vulnerable children and adolescents.
- An investigation of the psychometric properties of the Adolescent Separation Anxiety Test (ASAT)
- Using the Object Relations Test (ORT) to measure change following individual and family therapy
- Development of a coding key for the object relations technique
- Derangements: a new method for establishing the validity of idiographic methods
- Comparative testing of the psychometric properties of measures of personality disorder
- Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation (CORE) project for the measurement of change in psychotherapy and counselling
- Emergent identities in Mental Health Nursing
- Evaluation of observation training
- The views and experiences of children and families about contact during adoption
- Guardians ad litem views on the service provided by the Monroe Young Family Centre
- Evaluation of a social inclusion project in the London Borough of Ealing
- Organisational innovation in social services departments
- Consortium of follow-up studies: consequences of deprivation
- Tavistock Monroe community project
- A randomised trial of stress management and institutional consultation to casualty departments in district general hospitals
- Research on infant observation
- Alternative dispute resolution, phase II
- Measures of transference in psychotherapy
- A narrative approach to the accounts of transgendered adolescents and their parents
- Development of measures of internal world
- Investigating the effectiveness of psychotherapeutic interventions with looked-after children: Can its provision help predict the success of the next placement?
- Right from the start: Evaluation of Home-Start with mothers of new-born infants
- Parents access to services for children in Islington
- The behaviour of children, seen by social services, who are referred to a community based mental health service, and its relationship to the mental health of their parents
- Evaluation and research of Tavistock Clinic consultancy to Essex Social Services Department
- Enhancing parental sensitivity to the cues of pre-term babies: An exploratory study
- Icarus project
- Paternal depression and child development: A feasibility study
- The Personal Relatedness Profile: the psychodynamic assessment of interpersonal functioning
