Common therapeutic elements of interventions aimed at enhancing parent–child early relationships.

Salvá, Carlos Pitillas

doi:10.1037/pap0000234

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“…In this perspective, also the psychoeducational techniques (e.g. offering information about gender development, challenges and opportunities in parenting a gender diverse child) were adopted within a psychoanalytic framework (Busch & Auchincloss, 2018; Pitillas, 2020). The information requested by the parent or offered by the clinician was understood not only at a practical level, but also as a way to express emotions and anxieties, and to answer to them.…”

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A psychological support group for parents in the care of families with gender diverse children and adolescents

Caldarera¹,

Davidson

Vitiello³

et al. 2020

Clin Child Psychol Psychiatry

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Parenting gender diverse children and adolescents can be a challenging experience, entailing doubts about how to protect and support them during their development. Parental reactions impact on the child’s sense of security and well-being. Therefore, when caring for families with gender diverse children, it is important to offer support to parents. In this article we present an experience with a 12-month support group for parents of young people who attended the service for gender identity development at a paediatric hospital. We describe the group structure and methodology, together with the process for evaluating the intervention. At 6-month intervals, parents were asked to indicate the most important topics that had emerged during the monthly sessions. At 12 months, they completed a semi-structured feedback questionnaire about their experience in the group, including possible difficulties encountered. Thematic analysis showed an evolution in time, with participants taking a more complex perspective on gender diversity and the needs of their children, while feeling more able to deal with the uncertainties related to gender identity development. After attending the group, parents reported feeling less lonely, more confident, and better able to communicate with their children. They related these positive changes to the opportunity of sharing experiences and mutual learning. This feed-back provides preliminary evidence that the psychological support group was perceived to be a useful resource by parents of gender diverse young people.

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A psychological support group for parents in the care of families with gender diverse children and adolescents

Caldarera¹,

Davidson

Vitiello³

et al. 2020

Clin Child Psychol Psychiatry

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“…There is no single way to conduct parent groups for attachment‐centered intervention, as shown by the large array of attachment‐centered therapeutic programs for parents and young children (Brisch, 2012; James & Newbury, 2010; Pitillas & Berástegui, 2018; Powell et al., 2013; Woodhead & James, 2018). Using different techniques, these programs provide useful information about early development and parenting to families and, most importantly, they enhance essential caregiving capabilities, such as parental sensitivity and mentalization (Berlin, Zeanah, & Lieberman, 2016; Pitillas, 2019a). Research shows that these approaches, despite their diversity, are effective in enhancing caregiver sensitivity, changing parental states of mind and moving the child with insecure/disorganized attachment to secure/organized attachment patterns (Fonagy et al., 2016; Hoffman, Marvin, Cooper, & Powell, 2006).…”

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Enhancing Caregiving in Traumatized Families: An Attachment‐Centered Approach to Working with Parent Groups

Salvá

Pedro-Viejo

2021

Family Process

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This paper outlines a model of attachment‐centered group interventions to enhance caregiving among parents suffering from early trauma and/or social hardship. Groups are understood as an essential source of experiences that may restore traumatized adults’ relational security, and enhance their parenting capacities, in face of biographical and contextual factors that compromise caregiving. The model is especially suited for intervention within social service/child protection contexts and with families that struggle to establish trusting alliances with professionals and institutions. Proposed intervention strategies are oriented toward making the group function as an attachment figure that meets parents’ attachment and exploration needs and enhances parental sensitivity. Group therapists facilitate two sets of group processes: on the one hand, a sense of togetherness, emotional containment, protection and comfort (related to attachment needs); on the other hand, the development of parental mentalization, the revision of parental representations of the child, and the consolidation of parenting competence (related to exploration needs). A theoretical rationale for working with parent groups from an attachment‐centered perspective, the basic intervention principles and specific strategies of the model are presented and illustrated.

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“…Basic theoretical principles and intervention strategies that define SBSP stem from the tradition of attachmentcentered intervention programs (Berlin et al, 2016;Juffer et al, 2012;Powell et al, 2013;Slade, 2007;Zeanah, 2009 ), with a particular emphasis on the use of parent groups to enhance caregiving (see . These programs seek to enhance parental reflective functioning (Slade, 2005) and sensitivity, and they use resources such as group work, video-feedback and a combination of psychotherapeutic and psychoeducational approaches(see Berlin et al, 2016;Pitillas, 2020).…”

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Enhancing maternal sensitivity in contexts of urban extreme poverty in Sierra Leone: A pilot study

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Pedro-Viejo

Halty

et al. 2021

Infant Mental Health Journal

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This pilot study presents preliminary data on the efficacy of Strong Bonds, Strong Pikin (SBSP), a brief intervention program that aims to enhance sensitivity among mothers who care for their preschool children in a slum settlement in Freetown (Sierra Leone). SBSP adapts principles of attachment theory to intervention within a non-Western cultural setting, where families suffer from extreme poverty. A combination of psychoeducation, group work, videofeedback, and storytelling defines the methodology of the program. Maternal sensitivity, parenting stress, and the use of violent discipline practices were measured before (pretest) and after the intervention (posttest) in a sample of 43 mothers who participated in the program. Analyses showed a significant increase in observed maternal sensitivity, as well as a decrease in mother-reported parenting stress, child problems, and use of violent discipline practices from pretest to posttest. These results are discussed in terms of the potential value of culturally sensitive, attachment-centered interventions with caregivers who raise their children in non-Western settings affected by economic vulnerability.

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Common therapeutic elements of interventions aimed at enhancing parent–child early relationships.

Cited by 8 publications

References 45 publications

A psychological support group for parents in the care of families with gender diverse children and adolescents

A psychological support group for parents in the care of families with gender diverse children and adolescents

Enhancing Caregiving in Traumatized Families: An Attachment‐Centered Approach to Working with Parent Groups

Enhancing maternal sensitivity in contexts of urban extreme poverty in Sierra Leone: A pilot study

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