The Relative Efficacy of Contact and Vestibular-Proprioceptive Stimulation in Soothing Neonates

Korner, Anneliese F.; Thoman, Evelyn B.

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“…receive sensory signals linking them to a co-sleeping partner. [40][41][42][43] All have been shown to change infant physiology, including heart rate and breathing patterns including the cessation of excessive night-time crying. 44 Until recently, all human infants experienced access to at least one cosleeping adult body, usually the mother 45,46 so it is not surprising that maternal contact stimulates a variety of significant 'hidden regulatory processes' that are clinically advantageous to infants.…”

Section: Is Cosleeping Biologically Appropriate or Anachronistic?mentioning

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Why babies should never sleep alone: A review of the co-sleeping controversy in relation to SIDS, bedsharing and breast feeding

McKenna

McDade

2005

Paediatric Respiratory Reviews

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Section: Is Cosleeping Biologically Appropriate or Anachronistic?mentioning

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Why babies should never sleep alone: A review of the co-sleeping controversy in relation to SIDS, bedsharing and breast feeding

McKenna

McDade

2005

Paediatric Respiratory Reviews

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“…Stern (1977) argued that repetive maternal games of touch, with "theme and variation" format, help create expectancies for the infant. Maternal touch is also a primary means of soothing a distressed infant, and extra handling is associated with diminished irritability (Korner & Thoman, 1972). On the other hand, some infants with difficult temperaments do not tolerate a great deal of touch (see DiGangi et al, 1991).…”

Section: Microanalyses Of Early Face-to-face Interactions and Clinicamentioning

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Brief mother–infant treatment: Psychoanalytically informed video feedback

Beebe

2003

Infant Mental Health Journal

145

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Specific patterns of interactive regulation documented by microanalytic methods of infant research can be applied to clinical interventions with mothers and infants. A brief treatment model is described that includes face-to-face split-screen videotaping (one camera on each partner) and therapeutic observation of the videotape with the parent. The intervention uses "video feedback" informed by a psychoanalytic approach, including positive reinforcement, modeling, and information giving, as well as interpretation, while watching the videotape. Specific interactions in the areas of attention, arousal, affect, and timing regulation are evaluated. The psychoanalytic intervention links the "story" of the presenting complaints, the "story" seen in the videotape, and the "story" of the parent's own upbringing. An attempt is made to identify specific representations of the baby that may interfere with the parents's ability to observe and process the nonverbal interaction. The mother's powerful experience of watching herself and her baby interact, and our joint attempts to translate the action-sequences into words, facilitates the mother's ability to "see" and to "remember," stimulating a rapid integration of the mother's procedural and declarative modes of information-processing. One treatment case, involving six contacts, is presented to illustrate the approach. By applying the specificity of interactive regulation identified by microanalysis of videotape into the psychodynamic treatment of mother-infant pairs, basic research can be translated into clinical practice.RESUMEN: Patrones específicos de regulación interactiva, documentados por medio de métodos microanalíticos de investigación infantil, pueden aplicarse a intervenciones clínicas con madres e infantes. Se describe un breve modelo de tratamiento, el cual incluye una grabación en vídeo, cara a cara y con la pantalla dividida (sendas cámaras se enfocan en cada uno de los participantes), así como la observación terapéutica del vídeo con la madre. La intervención usa las reacciones al vídeo explicadas por medio de un acercamiento sicoanalítico, incluyendo un reforzamiento positivo, modelos, cómo dar información, así como la interpretación, mientras que se está mirando el vídeo. Se evalúan interacciones específicas en las áreas de atención, despertar, afecto y la regulación del tiempo. La intervención sicoanalítica entrelaza la historia de la presentación de las quejas, la historia vista en el vídeo, y la historia del propio crecimiento de la madre. Se hace un intento por identificar representaciones específicas del bebé que pudieran interferir con la habilidad de la madre de observar y procesar la interacción no verbal. La poderosa experiencia de la madre que se observa a sí misma interactuando con su bebé, y nuestros intentos conjuntos de traducir la secuencia de acciones a palabras, facilita la habilidad de la madre de "ver" y de "recordar," lo cual estimula una rápida integración de las maneras de procesar la información que la madre posee, tanto de p...

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“…In the developmental literature, there has been some work on contact as a regulator of emotions elicited by something else (as opposed to contact eliciting emotions in its own right). For example, maternal contact has been found to soothe infants, especially when administered in conjunction with vestibular stimulation (Birns, Blank, & Bridger, 1966;Korner & Thoman, 1972). Other studies (e.g., Field, 1983;Koester, Papoušek, & Papoušek, 1989) have used contact to increase arousal levels and thereby maximize the infant's presumed level of attentiveness or interest.…”

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Emotion Regulation Via Maternal Touch

Hertenstein

Campos

2001

Infancy

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The study of emotion elicitation in the caregiver-infant dyad has focused almost exclusively on the facial and vocal channels, whereas little attention has been given to the contribution of the tactile channel. This study was undertaken to investigate the effects of touch on infants' emotions. During the time that objects were presented to the dyad, mothers provided tactile stimulation to their 12-month-old infants by either (a) tensing their fingers around the infants' abdomen while abruptly inhaling, (b) relaxing their grip around the infants' abdomen, or (c) not providing additional tactile stimulation (control condition). The results revealed that infants in the first condition (a) touched the objects less and waited longer to touch the objects while displaying more negative emotional displays compared to infants in the control condition. However, no apparent differences were found between infants in the second condition (b) and the control condition. The results suggest that infants' emotions may be elicited by specific parameters of touch.Touch has been described as the most fundamental means of contact with the world (Barnett, 1972) and the simplest and most straightforward of all sensory systems (Geldard, 1960). An extensive body of research has been conducted on the importance of touch and infant massage for sensory, cognitive, neurological, and physical development, as well as for pain management and arousal regulation (e.g., Field, 1998). However, the specific role of touch in eliciting and communicating emotions remains largely unexplored (Hertenstein, in press). In this article we present the results of an initial study investigating the processes by which touch elicits and regulates emotion in infants.The lack of investigation on touch and its relation to emotion is surprising. Touch may be an extraordinarily powerful sensory system for eliciting emotion. The skin contains receptors that directly elicit hedonic values, either because INFANCY, 2(4),[549][550][551][552][553][554][555][556][557][558][559][560][561][562][563][564][565][566]

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The Relative Efficacy of Contact and Vestibular-Proprioceptive Stimulation in Soothing Neonates

Cited by 159 publications

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Why babies should never sleep alone: A review of the co-sleeping controversy in relation to SIDS, bedsharing and breast feeding

Why babies should never sleep alone: A review of the co-sleeping controversy in relation to SIDS, bedsharing and breast feeding

Brief mother–infant treatment: Psychoanalytically informed video feedback

Emotion Regulation Via Maternal Touch

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