Table 1.

Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria.

Inclusion criteria:

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Intervention: Individual or dyadic (parent-child) psychodynamic and/or psychoanalytic therapy, including family or group therapy where the therapeutic intervention is described as psychodynamic or psychoanalytic. As psychodynamic treatments are based on a range of theories, this review included all studies where the researchers defined the treatment model under investigation as primarily psychodynamic or psychoanalytic

Participant age: Studies where a majority of participants were aged between 3 and 18 years old but none of the child/adolescent participants were over 25

Study focus: Studies primarily concerned with evaluating treatment outcomes, using any design involving quantitative measurement of outcomes (e.g., randomized control trials, quasi-experimental studies, and naturalistic evaluation)

Study outcomes: Outcomes related to any mental health condition or problem, including sub-threshold mental health conditions and prevention of mental health difficulties

Exclusion criteria:

Method: Studies that report only on qualitative findings; single case studies; review papers; and meta-analyses

Outcomes: Studies where child outcomes are not reported (e.g., only parent outcomes reported) and studies focusing only on the process rather than outcome of therapy

Interventions: Parent-infant psychotherapy (where the intervention is primarily focused on therapeutic work with children under 3 years of age)