Midgley, N. and Holmes, J. and Parkinson, S. and Stapley, E. and Eatough, Virginia and Target, M. (2014) 'Just like talking to someone about like shit in your life and stuff, and they help you': hopes and expectations for therapy among depressed adolescents. Psychotherapy Research , ISSN 1050-3307.
Abstract
Objective: To explore hopes and expectations for therapy among a clinical population of depressed adolescents. Method: As part of a randomized clinical trial, 77 adolescents aged 11–17, with moderate to severe depression, were interviewed using a semi-structured interview schedule. The interviews were analysed qualitatively using framework analysis. Results: The findings are reported around five themes: “the difficulty of imagining what will happen in therapy,” “the ‘talking cure,’” “the therapist as doctor,” “therapy as a relationship,” and “regaining the old self or developing new capacities.” Conclusions: Differing expectations are likely to have implications for the way young people engage with treatment, and failure to identify these expectations may lead to a risk of treatment breakdown.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | adolescence, depression, expectations of therapy, expectancies, psychotherapy, role/outcome |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Hall |
| Date Deposited: | 19 May 2015 09:25 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:16 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12108 |
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