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Overview

Nick Midgley is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and has an extensive publication record in the field of Psychology, particularly within Clinical Psychology. Their research spans multiple subfields including Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Safety Research.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Child Welfare and Adoption
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions

Midgley has coauthored frequently with the following researchers:

  • Peter Fonagy
  • Sally O'Keeffe
  • Antonella Cirasola
  • Peter Martin
  • Rose Mortimer

Recent notable publications include:

  • The Evidence-Base for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy With Children and Adolescents: A Narrative Synthesis (2021), published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • Developing Typologies in Qualitative Research: The Use of Ideal-type Analysis (2022), published in International Journal of Qualitative Methods (authored by Emily Stapley but connected through collaboration networks)
  • Affect-Focused Psychodynamic Internet-Based Therapy for Adolescent Depression: Randomized Controlled Trial (2020), Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Psychological Mediators of the Association Between Childhood Emotional Abuse and Depression: A Systematic Review (2020), Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • When adolescents stop psychological therapy: Rupture-repair in the therapeutic alliance and association with therapy ending (2020), Psychotherapy

Midgley's publications frequently appear in the following journals:

  • Psychotherapy Research
  • Journal of Infant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
  • Journal of Child Psychotherapy
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Psychotherapy

The scientist has contributed to book publications with the following titles:

  • Essentials of ideal-type analysis: A qualitative approach to constructing typologies (2021), published by the American Psychological Association
  • So Young, So Sad, So Listen (2020), published by Cambridge University Press

Nick Midgley's work is situated primarily within the field of Psychology, with a particular focus on clinical aspects of psychological treatment and emotional development in young populations, as well as digital mental health interventions.

Best Publications

  • Framework analysis: a worked example of a study exploring young people's experiences of depression

    Sally Parkinson;Virginia Eatough;Joshua Holmes;Emily Stapley

  • Cognitive behavioural therapy and short-term psychoanalytical psychotherapy versus a brief psychosocial intervention in adolescents with unipolar major depressive disorder (IMPACT): a multicentre, pragmatic, observer-blind, randomised controlled superiority trial

    Ian M Goodyer;Shirley Reynolds;Barbara Barrett;Sarah Byford

  • Psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and adolescents: a critical review of the evidence base

    Nick Midgley;Eilis Kennedy

  • Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents: A Meta-Analysis of Short-Term Psychodynamic Models

    Allan A. Abbass;Sven Rabung;Falk Leichsenring;Johanne S. Refseth

  • Minding the Child : Mentalization-Based Interventions with Children, Young People and their Families

    Nick Midgley;Ioanna Vrouva

  • Parent–infant psychotherapy for improving parental and infant mental health

    Jane Barlow;Cathy Bennett;Nick Midgley;Soili K Larkin

  • The meaningful assessment of therapy outcomes: Incorporating a qualitative study into a randomized controlled trial evaluating the treatment of adolescent depression.

    Nick Midgley;Flavia Ansaldo;Mary Target

  • Developing Typologies in Qualitative Research: The Use of Ideal-type Analysis

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  • The ‘inseparable bond between cure and research’: clinical case study as a method of psychoanalytic inquiry

    Nick Midgley

  • Mentalization-Based Treatment for Children: A Time-Limited Approach

    Nick Midgley;Karin Ensink;Karin Lindqvist;Norka Malberg

  • Sailing between Scylla and Charybdis: Incorporating Qualitative Approaches into Child Psychotherapy Research.

    Nicholas Midgley

  • Psychoanalysis and qualitative psychology: complementary or contradictory paradigms?

    Nick Midgley

  • 'I Just Stopped Going': A Mixed Methods Investigation Into Types of Therapy Dropout in Adolescents With Depression.

    Sally O’Keeffe;Peter Martin;Mary Target;Nick Midgley

  • Beyond a diagnosis: The experience of depression among clinically-referred adolescents

    Nick Midgley;Nick Midgley;Sally Parkinson;Josh Holmes;Emily Stapley

  • Psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and adolescents: an updated narrative review of the evidence base

    Nick Midgley;Sally O’Keeffe;Lorna French;Eilis Kennedy

  • Biases in research: risk factors for non-replicability in psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy research

    F. Leichsenring;A. Abbass;M.J. Hilsenroth;F. Leweke

  • Child psychotherapy and research. New approaches, emerging findings

    Nick Midgley;Jan Anderson;Eve Grainger;Tanja Nesic-Vuckovic

  • Process and outcome research in child, adolescent and parent-infant psychotherapy: a thematic review

    N Midgley;E Kennedy

  • The Evidence-Base for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy With Children and Adolescents: A Narrative Synthesis.

    Nick Midgley;Rose Mortimer;Antonella Cirasola;Prisha Batra

  • Cognitive-behavioural therapy and short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy versus brief psychosocial intervention in adolescents with unipolar major depression (IMPACT): a multicentre, pragmatic, observer-blind, randomised controlled trial.

    Ian M Goodyer;Shirley Reynolds;Barbara Barrett;Sarah Byford

  • The outcome of child psychoanalysis from the patient's point of view: a qualitative analysis of a long-term follow-up study.

    Nicholas Midgley;Mary Target;Jonathan Smith

  • Parent-infant psychotherapy for improving parental and infant mental health (Protocol)

    Barlow J;Bennett C;Midgley N

Frequent Co-Authors

Mary Target
Mary Target University College London
Peter Fonagy
Peter Fonagy University College London
Ian M. Goodyer
Ian M. Goodyer University of Cambridge
Shirley Reynolds
Shirley Reynolds University of Reading
Pasco Fearon
Pasco Fearon University College London
Patrick Luyten
Patrick Luyten University College London
Jane Barlow
Jane Barlow University of Oxford
Gerhard Andersson
Gerhard Andersson Linköping University
Falk Leichsenring
Falk Leichsenring University of Giessen
Anthony Bateman
Anthony Bateman University College London

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