Integrating professional identities: an ethnographic study of psychoanalytic child psychotherapy in a children’s social care setting

Figures & data

Table 1. Summary of data collection.

Data collection method	Number	Timescale
Participant observation and informal interviews	22 days	June–December 2019
Formal interviews: 2 child psychotherapists Social workers/Personal Assistants	3 8	Autumn 2019–Spring 2020 4 prior to observation period, 4 during observation period
Social work managers	2	November–December 2019

Figure 1. The child psychotherapists’ professional identities.

Figure 2. Processes the child psychotherapists engaged in.