Infant Mental Health Clinical Trial
Official title:
What Can be Learnt From Offering Therapeutic Work to Parents and Infants (Under the Age of Five) in a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Clinic That Does Not Routinely Offer This Type of Intervention?
Can a method of working therapeutically with parents and children (under the age of five) be
made use of in a Child and Adolescent Mental Health team, in which this kind of work does not
regularly take place? I hope to understand whether this model of work can be helpful to the
children and their families and to look at how this method was received by the team.
It is hoped that by working with the parents and child together, the families will be able to
think about both the child's presenting difficulty, but also the relationship between the
parents and their child and how the parents' own experiences and difficulties might impact on
the present situation.
The primary aim of this research is to trial an under-fives' service, in a Child and
Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) team which has not offered this kind of work
specifically before. The project would involve recruiting families, with children under the
age of five years old, who are experiencing one or more difficulties, and these families
would be offered five sessions, with the option of an additional five sessions, should this
be required.
The work will broadly follow the Tavistock's model of parent-infant psychotherapy and the
sessions will be centred within a psychodynamic psychotherapeutic framework. I hope that this
trial will enable to me to learn more about this model of work, in terms of the processes
involves and the themes that emerge. I hope to see how possible it is for this kind of work
to be adopted within a generic CAMHS team, and how it is received by the families involved.
Due to this method of working being new to the team, it will be interesting to see how my
colleagues respond to the model. It is likely that trying to gather full qualitative or
quantitative data in this area would be beyond the scope of this piece of research, but I
hope to make some reflections on how the model was received by the team. I hope to present
the plan of work to the team prior to the treatment stage, and then share some of the
findings from the research, after treatment. I also hope to conduct some form of
consultation, with a staff group, following the treatment stage, in order to hear about their
experiences of this method.
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| Status | Clinical Trial | Phase | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Completed |
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N/A | |
| Active, not recruiting |
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N/A |