The History and Current Status of Outcome Research at the Anna Freud Centre

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The studies described in this paper were carried out in close collaboration with the Yale Child Study Center, under the leadership of the late Dr. Donald Cohen. We would like to dedicate this paper to his memory. He carefully guided the work described here from its inception and gave it generous intellectual as well as material support. Other faculty members at the Yale Child Study Center have also been closely involved with the studies. In particular, we would like to acknowledge the advice and support of Dr. Albert Solnit and the warm and unstinting contributions of Dr. Linda Mayes, together with the generous interest and support of Dr. Robert King. We also enormously appreciated the participation and encouragement, at key phases, of Professor Alan Kazdin, of the Yale University Department of Psychology. The work reported here is the result of years of effort by many leaders at the Anna Freud Centre, particularly Dr. George Moran, Hansi Kennedy, Rose Edgcumbe, and Julia Fabricius. In individual studies, major contributions were made by Drs. Anne-Marie Sandler, Andrew Gerber, Anthony Bateman, Anna Higgitt, Jill Miller, and Daniel Barth, and Ms. Doris Fillion. More recently, Abby Schachter and Karin Ensink have been effective project leaders of studies described. Funding was received from sources too numerous to list, but particularly significant contributions were made by The Anna Freud Foundation, the Mental Health Foundation, the Gatsby Trust, the American Psychoanalytic Association Research Fund, the International Psychoanalytic Association Research Fund, and the Simenauer Trust, as well as the Board of Trustees of the Anna Freud Centre.

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Peter Fonagy

Peter Fonagy is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis, University College London; Director of Research, The Anna Freud Centre; and Director, Child and Family Center and Center for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness, Menninger Foundation. Mary Target is Senior Lecturer, UCL Psychoanalysis Unit; and Deputy Director of Research, The Anna Freud Centre.