Lisa Burscheidt

Lisa is Assistant Librarian at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. She's responsible for information skills training in the context of evidence-based practice. She’s interested in making research accessible and understandable for a wider audience. The views expressed in her blogs are her own, not her employer's.

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Face-to-face psychotherapy for chronic pain in children and adolescents: Cochrane review calls for better primary research

Lisa Burscheidt summarises a recent Cochrane review of psychotherapy for chronic pain in children and adolescents, which concludes that psychological therapies should be considered as a treatment, but better primary studies are needed to help steer pain management decisions.

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Kinship care may be a viable out-of-home placement option for maltreated children, but more research is needed

Lisa Burscheidt reports on a recent Cochrane review that looks at the effects of kinship care versus traditional foster care for the safety, permanency and well-being of children removed from the home for maltreatment.

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