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Ajder, Iva (2025) ‘Finding a room of one’s own’: exploring therapists’ understanding of adolescents’ experiences of beginning and settling into intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust/University of East London.

Allen-Delpratt, Charae (2025) “Actively anti-racist — not just in our minds, in our hearts”: Engaging with and implementing anti-racist professional development in educational psychology. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex. Full text available

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Bates, Karla Jane (2025) Understanding the journeys of Black Caribbean parents who have children with autism. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex. Full text available

Booth, Rebecca (2025) Navigating the anti-relational force: ambivalence and performance management in a child and family social work department. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex. Full text available

Busse, Alexandra (2025) Psychoanalytic consultation frameworks in Forensic CAMHS: Approaches to supporting professionals working with justice-involved youth. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust/University of Essex. Full text available

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Christiansen, Jacob Cilius Vinsten (2025) Understanding and taming anxiety: a relational task. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex. Full text available

Coetzee, Samuel (2025) How do child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapists understand treatment review meetings? Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust/University of Essex. Full text available

Cookson, Ellen (2025) More than meets the eye: An exploration of secondary school experiences and support for children and young people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex. Full text available

Cox, Sophie (2025) Our bodies relating: how do child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapists working with the body in specialist settings understand their bodies in relation to their patients? Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex. Full text available

Cufley, Robyn (2025) "It often is really unique and very individual to the setting": Educational psychologists’ experiences of the implementation of the Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) programme in one London borough. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex. Full text available

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Dobler, Veronika, Marcellino, Elisa, Derluyn, Ilse, Draper, Ana and Pfeiffer, Elisa (2025) Trauma-focused interventions for children and adolescents in migration contexts. In: Evidence-Based Treatments for Trauma-Related Disorders in Children and Adolescents. Springer, Cham, pp. 531-553. ISBN 978-3031772146

Dornan, Joanne (2025) ‘I don’t know, it’s just a feeling and it just comes’: A discourse analysis of anxiety during child psychotherapy assessment. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust/University of Essex. Full text available

de Lafargue, Johanna (2025) Exploring professional perspectives on the cascading impact of system responses to student suicide in secondary schools. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex. Full text available

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Francis, Mary (2025) Applying decolonial thought to the study of racial microaggressions. Journal of Social Work Practice, 39 (4). pp. 353-368. ISSN 0265-0533 Full text available

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Ghent, Christie (2025) “Love, care and solidarity”: Transforming school exclusion using an abolitionist lens. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex. Full text available

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Ibitoye, Kofoworola (2025) Shame on YOU and YOU and YOU! An exploration into the experiences of registered managers, the opportunities and challenges faced in residential childcare within the context of change. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex. Full text available

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Kennedy, Eilis, Harron, Katie and Gilbert, Ruth (2025) Effects of the Family Nurse Partnership on all eligible mothers: a data linkage cohort study in England. PLOS One, 20 (4). ISSN 1932-6203 Full text available

Knight, C. (2025) Traumatic brain injury - exploring the gaps in unmet needs through critical discourse analysis. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex. Full text available

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Leadbetter, Ian (2025) Before and after Ofsted: The emotional and professional journey of children’s social care senior leaders who received an Ofsted judgement of inadequate. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex. Full text available

Lewis, Samantha (2025) Exploring children and young people’s experiences of trauma-informed school provision: A psychosocial study. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex. Full text available

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Mahyoub, Zahwa (2025) ‘My child is a blessing’: Exploring the role of religion for Muslim parents of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex. Full text available

Malcolm-McKay, Jessica (2025) Reflecting Teams in practice: Educational Psychologists’ experiences of using Reflecting Teams as part of their doctoral training. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex. Full text available

Matthews, Klaudia (2025) "I'm just trying to prove them wrong": Roma children’s experiences in a secondary school with targeted cultural support. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex. Full text available

Meeson, Jemma (2025) “What is the emotional experience of a person who has suffered from Anorexia Nervosa?”. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex. Full text available

Mjelde, Toril (2025) The fathers and the Child Protection Service. A qualitative study of perceptions and experiences. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex. Full text available

Morris, Hannah (2025) “My dreams now have colour”: An exploration of homeless young people’s experiences of the ‘Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope’ (PATH). Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex. Full text available

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Nelson, Tiffany and Lichwa, Hannah (2025) The lived experiences of masking black Autistic girls in UK education: “Before people see the autism, they see my race.”. Educational Psychology in Practice . ISSN Print: 0266-7363, Online: 1469-5839 Full text available

Nijabat, Nasif (2025) Engaging ‘hard to reach’ young people in adolescent teams: challenges and limitations deconstructed. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex. Full text available

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Oloko, Teniola (2025) From Alternative Provision to ‘adulthood’: Is there a role for the educational psychologist? Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex. Full text available

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Parkinson, William (2025) “You get me”: a three-paper research project exploring how trainee psychotherapists experience and understand humour in psychoanalytic psychotherapy with young people in the context of professional training programmes. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust/University of Essex. Full text available

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Rashid, Shila, Karamat Ali, Heidi, Williams, Bob and Crombie, Fiona (2025) Current programme leads for UK qualifying level courses reflect on contemporary issues in family therapy training. Context (199). pp. 20-23. ISSN 0969-1936

Resnick, Mischa (2025) Understanding occupational histories and how they influence a psychoanalytic child psychotherapist’s experience of their work: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust/University of Essex. Full text available

Robinson, Thomas (2025) Exploring clinicians’ experience and understanding of psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children who are perpetrators of sexual violence: an interpretative phenomenological analysis. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust/University of Essex. Full text available

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Sharp, Miranda (2025) How do child psychotherapists hold their patients’ history in mind? Intersecting unlaid ghosts of intergenerational trauma when working with gender variant young people presenting with mental health comorbidities. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust/University of Essex. Full text available

Sonmez, Gulseren (2025) “Listening to the Unheard: Finding a Way to the Child with Musicality” How do Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists Understand Children’s Unconscious Communications Through Music? Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex. Full text available

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Tait, Madeleine (2025) Matters of the mind and heart: the emotional experience of assessing mental capacity as a social worker. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex. Full text available

Tench, Anna Grace (2025) The transition to adulthood: A participatory study of care leavers’ experiences with pathway planning. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex. Full text available

Thompson-Newman, Lucy (2025) An exploration of the emotional impact on Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists (CPTs), working therapeutically with adolescents presenting with suicidality. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex. Full text available

Thurman, Maisie (2025) “It felt like there was a piece missing from me”: An IPA exploration into the school experiences of adolescents with an autistic sibling. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex. Full text available

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Wakelyn, Jenifer (2025) Psychoanalytic aspects of the Watch Me Play! approach: the psychic energy of attention. Infant Observation: International Journal of Infant Observation and Its Applications . ISSN 1369-8036 (Print), 1745-8943 (Online) Full text available

Whately Ingham, Helena M (2025) Intensive case supervision during child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy training: An IPA study of supervisors’ and supervisees’ accounts of their experience. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust/University of Essex. Full text available

Wilson, Tassaree-Jaja (2025) This conversation is about race: exploring Educational Psychologists’ experiences of promoting racial equity. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex. Full text available

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Yaqoob, Ariffa (2025) "It’s better to be quiet than share”: Perspectives of secondary-aged students of British Pakistani background in seeking support for Social, Emotional & Mental Health. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex. Full text available