Resources for Professionals

ACP Friends is open to anyone who wants to learn more about child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy and the work of the ACP.

The evidence-base for psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapy with parents and infants, children and adolescents

Child and adolescent psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapy is recommended in key NICE and SCIE guidelines

Child and adolescent psychotherapy is a core NHS profession, recognised as an important component of comprehensive Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

National health service priority areas to which CAPTs are making significant contributions: looked-after children, schools, perinatal, eating disorders and adolescents in crisis

The ‘i-THRIVE’ framework is an integrated approach to mental health services with Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists contributing in all 'quadrants'

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists are able to provide a range of brief interventions and short-term psychotherapy

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists work with some of the most vulnerable and deeply troubled children and young people in society

Briefing Papers produced by ACP Specialist Interest Groups

The Scientific Development Committee have collated a collection of literature relevant for psychoanalytic thinking about race and diversity.

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists play a crucial role in providing training, case consultation, support, supervision and specialist clinical leadership

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists are one of the 12 Psychological Professions in the NHS. Find out more about the career path here

Resources to Support Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy within NHS Service and Workforce Developments

The ACP has endorsed the statement  from psychological professionals working on neonatal units in response to the conviction of Lucy Letby.