Session adherence to prototypical psychotherapy process as a correlate of outcome in a naturalistic study of child mentalization-informed psychodynamic play therapy.
Abstract:While the adult psychotherapy literature has made great strides to understand the relations between psychotherapy process and treatment outcome, the child psychotherapy literature lags far behind. The first aim of this study was to determine whether mentalization-informed psychodynamic play therapy (PDT) sessions adhered to therapeutic principles comprising this treatment model. The second aim was to assess whether session adherences to prototypical PDT and Reflective Function (RF) process using the Child Psyc… Show more
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