Dear Sarah

This may not directly answer your question, but might be worth knowing that
NICE are currently working on guidelines for 'children's attachment' with
particular focus on assessing attachment (and attachment disorders) in
context of abuse and maltreatment. Would be worth seeing what the typical
measures used are, and seeing whether any are specifically relevant for
service evaluation. I'm attaching the scoping document, and for more details
see:

http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/indevelopment/gid-cgwave0675

I'm sure you know the Narrative Story Stems (Hodges et al.), which are great
for children of this age, to assess attachment and representations of
self/other, but quite time-consuming, so may not fit in a service-evaulation
context...

I'm also impressed by the family of measures developed by Michael
Tarren-Sweeney, in the context of work with children in care - the Brief
Assessment Checklist (see paper attached). I reviewed this measure with some
foster carers recently, who thought the items were much more relevant than
ones on a more standard measure like the SDQ.

Best wishes,

Nick

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Dear all

I am looking for suitable outcome measures for a psychodynamic child
psychotherapy service, targeted at children aged under 10, presenting with
attachment disorders or at risk of developing mental health problems in the
context of past traumatic or abusive experiences and/or poor parental mental
health. I would be really grateful for any ideas or guidance on this. Any
signposting to relevant evidence/studies in this area would also be greatly
appreciated.

Finally, if anyone has any experience of or ideas about developing this sort
of service within a CAMHS team, and would be willing to discuss this
further, please do let me know (back-channel) so that I can contact you
directly.

Many thanks in advance,

Sarah Peter