Research and Audit Projects

The Service is conducting or involved with a number of research studies and also regularly conducts audit of different aspects of the work of the Service.  

        Research

• MFS is participating in a prospective multi-centre study (Cassel Hospital, Tavistock Centre, Marlborough Family Service), evaluating day and in-patient hospital treatment of children and families (with Professor P Fonagy)
• Acute Crisis Intervention Project for Teenagers and Young Persons: a group of clinicians from MFS (Eia Asen, Neil Dawson, Rabia Malik) jointly with Anna Freud Institute and UCL (Prof Fonagy, Mary Target) and NELMHT (Dr D Bevington) are pioneering an innovative manualised treatment for 14 – 21 year olds
• International Multi-Centre Anorexia Nervosa RCT  (Eia Asen, with Eisler, Treasure, Schmidt, Scholz et al)
• Marlborough Family Service Education Centre Evaluation Project: Aims to evaluate the effectiveness of Multi-family therapy in an education context. Appropriate outcome measures from families attending the Marlborough Education Centre and out-reach groups will be compared with a comparable control group at referral, three months, six months and twelve months. (Emma Morris and the Education Centre staff)
  

        Audit

• Health Visitors referrals to Primary Mental Health Worker for ‘Stepping Into Parenting’ Programme
• Audit of Asian Service cases 2003-2004
  (findings reported 2004/5)
• Audit of Assessments in Family Day Unit
• Audit of Child psychotherapy referrals: criteria and procedures
• Attendance rates for outreach work in school
• Audit of Domestic Violence
• Audit of Telephone Consultation Service for GPs
• Case note audit
• Audit of children’s experience of coming to the Marlborough for the first time
• Audit of the Behaviour Improvement Pilot Project at a local secondary school
• Audit of attendance rate in the Asian Family Counselling Service