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1Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, Stockport Child and Adolescent Mental health Services, Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport, UK. libby.rous@nhs.net
Background:
Child psychoanalytic psychotherapy has been criticized for its reluctance to embrace evidence-based practice. This study aims to explore the historical narrative of a sample of child psychoanalytic psychotherapists about progress in developing the evidence base.
Methods:
Fourteen psychotherapists were interviewed and the transcripts analysed for common themes about evidence-based practice.
Results:
Child psychoanalytic psychotherapists were generally positive about developing evidence-based practice but had reservations about the narrowness of hierarchies used by commissioners to assess evidence.
Conclusion:
The child psychoanalytical psychotherapists interviewed for this study recognized the need to promote evidence-based practice, in particular, to inform commissioners of Child Mental Health Services.
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