Creating connections for developing relationships
8 March 2021
In December 2019, the NIHR agreed to fund a feasibility trial of DDP as a psychotherapy, compared to services-as-usual. The…
Read more: Relationships in Good Hands Trial (RIGHT) into the effectiveness of DDP
24 February 2021
We are delighted to announce the new Research section on the DDP Network website. This section is now the authoritative…
Read more: DDP Research has a new home
30 June 2020
We would like to celebrate the the publication of ‘The Little Book of Attachment: Theory to Practice in Child Mental…
Read more: ‘The Little Book of Attachment’ by Dan Hughes and Ben Gurney-Smith published
16 April 2020
Since Dan, Kim and Julie published Healing Relational Trauma with Attachment-Focused Interventions in January 2019 members of the DDP community…
Read more: Newly published and upcoming books on DDP, for 2020 and beyond
2 December 2019
Ben Gurney-Smith, DDPI Research Coordinator, is delighted to announce that the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has agreed to fund…
Read more: DDP Research funding agreed by National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
17 October 2019
The Nurturing Attachments groupwork programme is a DDP-informed intervention developed by Kim Golding. In 2016 the UK Government’s DfE funded…
Read more: Evaluations of Kim Golding’s Nurturing Attachments Programme published
5 November 2018
Adoptive parents’ experiences of dyadic developmental psychotherapy by Ben Gurney-Smith and Megan Wingfield has been published in Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Understanding the…
31 January 2018
A new study into the lived experiences of adoptive parents and the ‘Nurturing Attachments’ group has been published. ‘A qualitative exploration…
Read more: The lived experiences of adoptive parents and the Nurturing Attachments group
12 June 2017
DDPI is pleased to announce the publication of Measurement in DDP: Guidance for practitioners and services. Developed by Dr. Ben Gurney-Smith…
Read more: DDPI publish ‘Measurement in DDP’ research guidance