Hi Everyone,

My name is Geoff Goodman, and I am the USA representative on the CaFTR steering committee.  The annual SPR meeting will be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) from June 24 to June 27, 2015.  We would like to encourage CaFTR members to create a strong presence at next year's meeting; toward that end, we are encouraging folks to submit papers, posters, and panel ideas to present at the conference.  The dates for submission will be November 3 to December 5 (Friday), 2014, so there is plenty of time to organize.  Personally, I am involved in child psychotherapy process research, most notably with the Child Psychotherapy Process Q-Set (CPQ).  I am attaching two abstracts of recent papers that I and my colleagues have recently submitted for publication.  If anyone is conducting research in a similar area, please contact me so that we can talk about organizing a panel.  If you have any questions about the upcoming SPR conference, please feel free to use the listserv as a forum, or you can e-mail me directly (ggoodman@liu.edu).  A special thanks to Nick for organizing us and making this listserv a reality!

Geoff Goodman

Geoff Goodman, Ph.D., ABPP, FIPA, CST, CSAT-S, CMAT-S
Associate Professor
Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program
Long Island University
720 Northern Blvd.
Brookville, NY 11548
(516) 299-4277
http://myweb.cwpost.liu.edu/ggoodman/home.htm
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From: list-manager@psychotherapyresearch.org [list-manager@psychotherapyresearch.org] on behalf of Gunnar Carlberg [gunnar.carlberg@ericastiftelsen.se]
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 11:50 AM
To: caftr@psychotherapyresearch.org
Subject: CaFTR: New publications

Dear Colleagues,
My name is Gunnar Carlberg connected to the Erica Foundation, Stockholm and Stockholm University, Sweden. The main focus of my research is outcome and change processes in psychodynamic child and adolescent psychotherapy.
I am part of the CaFTR steering group. In our planning and discussions about how to use this network caftr@psychotherapyresearch.org<mailto:caftr@psychotherapyresearch.org> we have thought of the opportunity to use it as a platform to share information about journal articles that may be of interest. I give this mail the subject heading ‘CaFTR: New publications’.

Recently we published two articles that may be of interest for some of you.
Nemirovski Edlund, J., Thorén, A. & Carlberg, G. (2014). Outcome of psychodynamic child psychotherapy in routine practice. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling. 16, 228-244. DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2014.927381
ABSTRACT: The aim of the present naturalistic study was to explore the effectiveness of psychodynamic child psychotherapy in routine practice. The sample comprised 207 psychotherapies with children 4–12 years of age with a broad range of mental health problems. Data on two measures, children’s global assessment scale (CGAS) and strength and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ), were collected pre-post therapy. Within-group changes were analysed using repeated measures mixed-models ANOVA. Individual changes were examined by means of clinical significance. The analyses revealed improvement in general functioning, decrease in problem severity and problem impact on the child’s everyday life, as well as an increase in prosocial behaviour. For CGAS, an interaction effect was discovered suggesting a larger improvement for younger children (4–6 years) than for older children (10–12 years). After therapy, 38% (n 76) achieved clinically significant improvement. Time-limited psychotherapy proved favourable for children assigned to that particular treatment modality. The study generated similar results as previous well-controlled trials, revealing statistically significant results in a large sample and in spite the use of non-specific outcome measures. The study provides everyday evidence to the effectiveness of child psychodynamic treatment with parallel parental work for a broad range of child mental health problems.

The second article was just published online.
Nemirovski Edlund, J. & Carlberg, G. (2014). Psychodynamic psychotherapy with adolescents and young adults: Outcome in routine practice. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. DOI: 10.1177/1359104514554311
ABSTRACT This naturalistic study examined the outcome of psychodynamic psychotherapy with 218 adolescents and young adults aged 14-24 years. Analysis of variance showed significant improvement of general functioning on Children's Global Assessment Scale (CGAS) and Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) and decreased symptom severity on Symptoms Checklist-90 (SCL-90) upon completion of psychotherapy, as well as a clinically significant improvement in a large percentage of cases. Effect sizes were equivalent to those evident in a clinical comparison group and larger than in prior research. The main limitation of this study was the lack of a control group, partially compensated for through the use of comparison groups and high external validity. The study seeks to fill a gap in an important yet overlooked field of research.
Best wishes,
Gunnar Carlberg

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