Assessing the triadic alliance between fathers, mothers, and infants at play

Abstract

A schemefor assessing the type oj triadic dIiancc betwemfathers, mothers, a d infants at play is pmented and illwated using developmental-systems caccpts. McHale, 1995) have called our attention to the importance of determining whether the study of the family *t contributes anydung unique to our understanding of child development beyond the study of the h d y k component dyads. Surprisingly, however, to this day most triadic models put forward have still been based on models of one-to-one interaction (TremblayLeveau and Nadel. 1995). Previous conceptualizations have focused on, for example, comparisons between two or-three of the dyads that make up the triad (Belsky, Rovine, and Fish, 1989; Parke, Power, and Gotanan, 1979) or on the infants interaction with one parent at a time in *e context of the triad (Lewis, Tresch-Owen, and Cox, 1988;Pedersen, Anderson, and Cain, 1980;Yogman, 1981). Hence we see a need to devise new methods to trace the specific trajectory of the niad itself. Assessing theIn this chapter we report on the steps we have taken in exploring this new direction. The first step in this work was to establish a semistructured paradigm, the lausanne Triadic Play (LTP) (

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