We at CambridgeBPI are delighted with the publication, in the peer reviewed journal Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, by our colleagues at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families and the Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, UK.
As part of their work they carried out in depth qualitative interviews with five adolescents aged 14 to 18 who had successfully completed a BPI treatment for depression and were in recovery from their mental illness. Using a qualitative method called interpretative phenomenological analysis, the results identified four central themes associated with their good treatment outcome with BPI:
- Being heard and feeling safe.
- Collaborative working enhancing therapy.
- Gaining a different perspective on oneself and relationships.
- A positive therapeutic relationship.
These constitute some of the core clinical tools we teach to BPI trainees working with depressed young people. The results concluded that BPI is a novel approach with promising clinical effectiveness. Revealing adolescents’ experiences informed potential psychological mechanisms of good treatment response to BPI.
Dhanak D, Thackeray L, Dubicka B, Kelvin R, Goodyer IM, Midgley N. (2020) Adolescents’ experiences of brief psychosocial intervention for depression: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of good-outcome cases. Clin Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2020 Jan;25(1):106-118. doi: 10.1177/1359104519857222. Epub 2019 Jun 20.PMID: 31216867