✦ LIBER ✦

Challenges working with infants and their families: Symptoms and meanings—two approaches of infant–parent psychotherapy

✍ Scribed by Elizabeth Tuters; Sally Doulis; Susan Yabsley

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Weight: 125 KB
Volume: 32
Category: Article
ISSN: 0163-9641
DOI: 10.1002/imhj.20323

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

In this article, the authors describe the rationale for the way they work with troubled infant–parent relationships. They focus on two approaches developed at the Hincks‐Dellcrest Children's Mental Health Centre (Toronto, Canada), a publically funded agency where they work and teach. One approach is Watch, Wait and Wonder, and the other is Infant–Parent Psychotherapy. The authors share a common philosophy that directs the way they think about the way they work. Two clinical case studies are presented to illustrate the treatment process of each approach. The presenting symptoms in both cases are similar (sleep difficulties), but the meaning, ages, and family compositions are different. The interventions unlocked the difficulties that each relationship was experiencing in a brief period of time.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

The quality of the relationship as a fac

The quality of the relationship as a factor of change. Discussion of paper: “Challenges working with infants and their families: Symptoms and meanings—two approaches of infant–parent psychotherapy”

✍ Yvon Gauthier 📂 Article 📅 2011 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 44 KB 👁 1 views

In the first clinical observation, the mother is immediately thinking in terms of Maria's father's genes to explain her symptoms. This is a good illustration of the powerful influence of the genetic theory of child development, so dominant in our changing world-even on parents who still come to an i