Parent and practitioner perspectives on Circle of Security Parenting (COS‐P): A qualitative study

Maxwell, Anne-Marie; Reay, Rebecca; Huber, Anna; Hawkins, Erinn; Woolnough, Erin; McMahon, Catherine

doi:10.1002/imhj.21916

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“…Data suggest that parents and children are equally warm emotionally and children are provided with increasing number of opportunities for expression. Under such a parenting mode, children develop ability for empathy [ 55 ]. Following admission to the university, children from emotionally secure families develop good interpersonal relations.…”

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Effects of parenting mode on student adaptability: the mediating effect of irrational beliefs

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Backgrounds In the face of the new environment, different individuals have different reactions. Those who have good adaptability constantly establish individual self-efficacy through making friends and completing their studies, thus forming a good dependency with the university environment. However, individuals with poor ability to adapt to the new environment will have some bad phenomena, such as truancy, weariness and self denial. As a result, the students’ adaptations of to the growth environment where in universities are the important topics in recent years. Methods Present study introduces irrational beliefs to investigate the effects of parenting mode on maladaptation of university students. The questionnaires based on simplified parenting mode (Chinese), irrational belief and adaptability were administered in a survey of 510 university students in Zhanjiang on October, 2021, the list of students of Guangdong Ocean University is taken as the sampling frame and determined by random sampling. Parenting mode was used as the independent variable, while the emotionally warm, overprotective and rejecting types were used as the indices. Further, the irrational beliefs including summary comments, awful beliefs and low tolerance to setbacks as well as maladaptation were included in the mediation model for analysis. Results The results showed that the rejection parenting mode was negatively related with absolute requirements (r = − 0.143), and learning motivation (r = − 0.157), interpersonal adaptation (r = − 0.283) and physical and psychological adjustment (r = − 0.083). Overprotection was negatively correlated with absolute requirements (r = − 0.042) and interpersonal adaptation (r = − 0.042). The mediating effect of irrational beliefs (low tolerance to setbacks, awful beliefs and absolute requirements), the lower and upper limits of Bootstrap confidence interval were 0.135 and 0.461, respectively, excluding 0, which indicated that the mediating effect is true. Conclusion Through the analysis of the data, this study believes that irrational beliefs such as low tolerance to setbacks, awful beliefs and absolute requirements mediate the effects on school adjustment. Negative parenting modes such as overprotection and rejection inculcate irrational beliefs, resulting in maladaptation of university students.

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“…This state encompasses an inability to cohere a sustainable biographical narrative, which is associated with being overwhelmed by anxiety, for example. Correspondingly, central to work stemming from psychoanalytic and humanistic traditions is the promotion of positive attachments to other people, groups, places, continuity and routines that support wellbeing (Klein, 1927; Maxwell et al, 2021; Tajfel & Turner, 1986; Zotova & Karapetyan, 2018). Such work is also extended through the reterritorialising of insights from indigenous psychologies that approach ontological security as being entwined within a person’s position within familial and tribal networks, along with spiritual connections to various non-human entities that include rivers, mountains, forests, oceans, and so forth (Kaya & Kale, 2016; King et al, 2017).…”

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Human Security Psychology: A Linking Construct for an Eclectic Discipline

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Since its inception as a modern and evolving discipline, psychology has been concerned with issues of human security. This think piece offers an initial conceptualisation of human security as a broad security concept that encompasses a range of interrelated dimensions that have been responded to by different sub-disciplinary domains within psychology. We advance an argument for a human security psychology as a connecting focal point for general psychology that enables us to bring knowledge from across our eclectic discipline into further dialogue. This is a necessary step in understanding better the state of current thinking on the psychology of security and as a basis for informing further theory, research and practice efforts to address issues of human (in)security. This initial effort is informed by Assemblage Theory, which offers a dynamic and contextually rich perspective on people as agentive beings entangled within evolving natural and social formations that can foster or undermine their experiences of [in]security. The article is completed with a brief agenda for advancing human security psychology.

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“…The aim is to help caregivers regulate their own cognitive, affective and behavioral responses to their child’s emotional needs; in other words, to maintain their capacity to mentalize and to respond in a sensitive manner even in difficult and challenging situations. The COS-P program has a friendly tone and uses non-judgmental language, and is easily accepted by parents and facilitators [ 27 ].…”

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Protocol for a randomized controlled trial comparing the Circle of Security-parenting (COS-P) with treatment as usual in child mental health services

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Background The quality of a child’s attachment to its primary caregiver plays an important role for its long-term socioemotional development. While ‘secure’ attachment is associated with better outcomes, ‘insecure’ attachment is associated with a higher risk of externalizing and internalizing symptoms. Children referred to mental health services show much higher rates of insecure attachment than the general population, yet the parent-child relationship is rarely in treatment focus. Attachment quality is closely associated with parental sensitive responsiveness that is target of attachment-based interventions like Circle of Security (COS). COS has shown to improve attachment quality and the well-being of both children and parents. No randomized controlled trials have investigated the effect of COS on parental sensitivity and child psychiatric symptoms in child mental health services. Objectives To investigate whether COS-Parenting (COS-P) can increase observed maternal sensitivity and decrease children’s psychiatric symptoms as an add on to treatment as usual (TAU). Methods In a randomized controlled parallel superiority trial COS-P is compared with TAU for parents of children referred to child mental health services (n = 186). Families are randomized 2:1 to intervention or control group, if their child is between 3 and 8 years old and scores ≥ 93d percentile on both the CBCL total score and the oppositional defiant disorder or conduct disorder subscale. Primary outcome is maternal sensitivity, secondary and exploratory outcomes include, among others, child psychiatric symptoms, parental stress and coping with children’s negative emotions. Outcomes and adverse events are assessed before (T0) and after 10 weeks of treatment (T1) and 6 months later (T2). Regression analysis and /or ANOVA will be used for all outcomes. Perspectives Targeting the parent-child relation has the potential to reduce psychiatric symptoms in children. This trial will provide valuable information if attachment-based interventions like COS-P can enhance treatment as usual in child mental health services. Trail registration ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03578016.

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Parent and practitioner perspectives on Circle of Security Parenting (COS‐P): A qualitative study

Cited by 8 publications

References 17 publications

Effects of parenting mode on student adaptability: the mediating effect of irrational beliefs

Effects of parenting mode on student adaptability: the mediating effect of irrational beliefs

Human Security Psychology: A Linking Construct for an Eclectic Discipline

Protocol for a randomized controlled trial comparing the Circle of Security-parenting (COS-P) with treatment as usual in child mental health services

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