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Watch, wait, and wonder: Testing the effectiveness of a new approach to mother–infant psychotherapy

✍ Scribed by Nancy J. Cohen; Elisabeth Muir; Mirek Lojkasek; Roy Muir; Carol Jane Parker; Melanie Barwick; Myrna Brown


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
210 KB
Volume
20
Category
Article
ISSN
0163-9641

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✦ Synopsis


This research compared two forms of psychodynamic psychotherapeutic interventions for 67 clinically referred infants and their mothers. One was an infant-led psychotherapy delivered through a program called Watch, Wait, and Wonder (WWW). The other was a mother-infant psychotherapy (PPT). Infants ranged in age from 10 to 30 months at the outset of treatment, which took place in weekly sessions over approximately 5 months. A broad range of measures of attachment, qualities of the mother-infant relationship, maternal perception of parenting stress, parenting competence and satisfaction, depression, and infant cognition and emotion regulation were used. The WWW group showed a greater shift toward a more organized or secure attachment relationship and a greater improvement in cognitive development and emotion regulation than infants in the PPT group. Moreover, mothers in the WWW group reported


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