Sharp, L;
Thackeray, L;
O’Keeffe, S;
Midgley, N;
(2024)
The development of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy process with a depressed adolescent: an empirical case study.
Journal of Child Psychotherapy
, 50
(3)
pp. 418-438.
10.1080/0075417X.2024.2415475.
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Abstract
This paper explores the psychotherapy process in a short-term psychoanalytic treatment (STPP) with a depressed adolescent. The empirical case study draws on both quantitative and qualitative data to examine the development of the psychotherapy process over time. 15 of the 29 audio recorded therapy sessions with a 16-year-old boy were sampled at intervals across the treatment. Session transcripts were coded using the Adolescent Psychotherapy Q-Set (APQ) and data analysed descriptively to compare characteristics of the process across the three treatment phases–beginning, middle, and ending. Descriptive statistics are supported with session extracts. Analysis of the APQ data suggests change in the patient’s presentation across the therapy. In the early stages, he appeared withdrawn and made minimal responses to the therapist’s attempts to work together; in the middle phase, he became more engaged, more able to talk about feelings, and more active in the sessions; and this was reflected in a less depressed presentation in the final phase. The therapist maintained a consistent therapeutic approach across all phases: supportive, non-judgemental, and working to make sense of the young person’s experiences, looking for patterns and inviting curiosity about how things might be understood differently. Despite increased engagement in the therapy, depressive symptoms remained in the clinical range.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The development of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy process with a depressed adolescent: an empirical case study |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0075417X.2024.2415475 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0075417x.2024.2415475 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Adolescence; depression; psychoanalytic psychotherapy; process research; short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10200726 |
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