ABSTRACT
This chapter will survey two fields of research developments. The primary one is research into the outcome or effectiveness of child psychotherapy. An additional area is research in which child psychotherapists are using concepts or techniques based in child psychotherapeutic work to enrich investigation of particular kinds of disturbance by more conventional empirical means. Chapters elsewhere in this book will provide more detail on some of these areas. Though clinical case studies have the potential to play an important role in generating and guiding other research, I have not tried to encompass these – both to limit the scope of the chapter to a manageable area, and to orient it clearly towards objective systematic research.
