ABSTRACT
Traditionally, research on the outcome of psychological treatments for children and adolescents has lagged behind research on adult therapies. This gap has been particularly pronounced in the case of psychoanalytic child psychotherapy and child psychoanalysis (Kazdin 2003). Over the past two decades, the Anna Freud Centre (AFC) has pioneered a series of innovative and ground-breaking studies on the outcome of psychoanalytic treatment for young people. These studies have contributed a body of important findings and novel methodologies to the field at the same time that they have underscored the challenges and difficulties facing outcome research.
