title: Thinking without knowing--child psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the UK and evidence-based practice.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Child psychoanalytic psychotherapy has been criticized for its reluctance to embrace evidence-based practice. This study aims to explore the historical narrative of a sample of child psychoanalytic psychotherapists about progress in developing the evidence base.
  
  
  METHODS
  Fourteen psychotherapists were interviewed and the transcripts analysed for common themes about evidence-based practice.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Child psychoanalytic psychotherapists were generally positive about developing evidence-based practice but had reservations about the narrowness of hierarchies used by commissioners to assess evidence.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The child psychoanalytical psychotherapists interviewed for this study recognized the need to promote evidence-based practice, in particular, to inform commissioners of Child Mental Health Services.
authors.affiliation: Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, Stockport Child and Adolescent Mental health Services, Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport, UK. libby.rous@nhs.net
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rous
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Clark
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001519:Behavior; D002648:Child; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012106:Research; D012586:Science; D006113:United Kingdom