CHILD PSYCHOTHERAPY

Child & adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a specialist training which focuses exclusively with children and young people (0-25) and their families. They are trained in the NHS by the NHS, and are registered as a core integral psychological profession in child mental health services. 

They understand and treat different presentations, behaviour and symptoms displayed by young people, which may include more than one diagnosis. They deliver an approach which takes into account the age and stage of development, and the influences of the environment on the child.  They work from a position of understanding the child and family holistically. 

They provide assessment, direct interventions, short term and long term interventions, state of mind assessments, critical evaluations, audits, extended assessments, consultations, training, supervision, mental health assessments and risk formulations. 

They work with complex and comorbid conditions and those suffering from developmental breakdown and systemic complexities. They can treat a wide range of mental health disorders/difficulties. 

Child psychotherapy is not a single therapeutic modality, but rather a powerful combination of skills, knowledge and experience that can be applied to a wide range of patients, groups and work contexts. They provide dynamic specialist interventions to parents so that parents/carers can understand the child’s presenting difficulties. 

There is a dedicated child psychotherapy journal which is advancing child mental health for the future.