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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