Meeting Them "Where They're At": Intensive School-Based Psychotherapy for Children Who Have Been Maltreated

This study explored intensive school-based psychodynamic therapy for severely maltreated children by gathering parents’, teachers’ and therapists’ views of how effective it was, given the serious psychosocial difficulties and societal costs linked to maltreatment. Themes included perceived changes in the children, relationships among parents, teachers and therapists, school as the setting for therapy, and the children’s academic status.