Coparenting and Toddler's Interactive Styles in Family Coalitions

Fivaz-Depeursinge, Élisabeth; Lopes, Francesco; Python, Maryline; Favez, Nicolas

doi:10.1111/j.1545-5300.2009.01298.x

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“…Moreover the daughter was often included in the interaction, also when the parents were asked to continue to interact with each other, letting the daughter be simply present in a third-part position (fourth phase). Similarly to our results, different studies, conducted using the LTP (Fivaz-Depeursinge and Favez, 2006; Fivaz-Depeursinge et al, 2007, 2009), have shown that sometimes children need to use their triangular and communicative abilities with the purpose of relieving the tension within the conflicting parental couple, being therefore entangled with the couple dinamics. With the necessary caution in comparing children with adolescents, this reference to the infant age might suggest that in some cases the daughter with anorexia nervosa was making the task of managing the relationship between the parents.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…The direct observational method, based on a recorded play session, named Lausanne Trilogue Play (LTP) (Fivaz-Depeursinge and Corboz-Warnery, 1999), has already shown strong ability to detect the specific characteristics of the family triadic interactions in the context of therapeutic orientation, preventive and social interventions, in particular with infants and children (e.g., Fivaz-Depeursinge and Favez, 2006; Fivaz-Depeursinge et al, 2007, 2009; Galdiolo and Roskam, 2016). Several studies confirmed that an early evaluation of the triangular interactions can be useful to predict some core aspects of the child psychological development: children in fact learn to regulate their inner states and emotions in the context of the family relationships.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Triadic Interactions in Families of Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa and Families of Adolescents with Internalizing Disorders

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The latest studies and practice guidelines for the treatment of adolescent patients with anorexia nervosa agree in pointing out the key role played by parents in determining the young patients’ therapeutic possibilities and outcomes. Still family functioning has usually been studied using only self-reported instruments. The aim of the present study is therefore to investigate the triadic interactions within the families of adolescents with anorexia nervosa using a semi-standardized observational tool based on a recorded play session, the Lausanne Trilogue Play (LTP). Parents and adolescent daughters, consecutively referred to adolescent neuropsychiatric services, participated in the study and underwent the observational procedure (LTP). The 20 families of adolescent girls with anorexia nervosa (restricting type) were compared with 20 families of patients with internalizing disorders (anxiety and depression). The results showed different interactive patterns in the families of adolescents with anorexia nervosa: they had greater difficulties in respecting roles during the play, maintaining the joint attention and in sharing positive affect, especially in the three-together phase (third phase). The majority of these families (12) exhibited collusive alliances. The parental subsystem appeared frequently unable to maintain a structuring role, i.e., providing help, support and guidance to the daughters, while the girls in turn often found it hard to show independent ideas and develop personal projects. Parents experienced difficulty in carving out a couple-specific relational space, from which the ill daughter was at least temporarily excluded also when they were asked to continue to interact with each other, letting the daughter be simply present in a third-part position (fourth phase). The study of the triadic interactions in the families of adolescents with anorexia nervosa may help to shift the attention from the exclusive mother–daughter relation to the involvement of the father, and of the parental couple as a whole. The family functioning is in fact well established as a maintaining factor of anorexia nervosa or vice versa as a facilitating factor in the therapeutic process.

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Triadic Interactions in Families of Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa and Families of Adolescents with Internalizing Disorders

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“…Furthermore, the poor coordination between parents generates tension, which in turn limits the infant's capacity to regulate negative affect. Similar findings on the triangular competence of these children as toddlers speak for a continuity of these limitations over infancy (Fivaz-Depeursinge, Lopes, Python & Favez, 2009). However, less is known about these processes by late in the first year at the turning point of secondary intersubjective communication.…”

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“…Therefore, the present results are in keeping with the aforementioned results at 3 months. In addition, they help fill the gap between early infancy and toddlerhood, where the same association emerged between LC family coordination and limited and less positive toddler triangular interaction (Fivaz-Depeursinge, Lopes, Python & Favez, 2009). Hence, LC infants might be on their way to giving up on interacting in a triangular way with their parents from the outset, presumably in the process of being enlisted to serve the parents' problematic relationship rather than to develop their own social competence.…”

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confidence: 96%

Nine‐month‐olds' triangular interactive strategies with their parents' couple in low‐coordination families: A descriptive study

Fivaz-Depeursinge¹,

Cairo²,

Scaiola³

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Infant Mental Health Journal

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Observing infants in triadic situations has revealed their triangular competence; namely, their ability to interact with both parents by simultaneously sharing their attention and affects with them. Infants' triangular interaction is linked with the coparenting unit's degree of coordination; in high-coordination (HC) families, parents act as a team in relation to the child, thus drawing clear and flexible boundaries with them; in low-coordination (LC) families, parents either avoid direct interaction with each other and include the child in their unit or join together against the child and exclude him or her, thus drawing inconsistent boundaries with the child. We explored the interactive strategies of LC 9-month-olds (n = 15) with those of their parents, comparing them with HC parents (n = 23) in two conditions: playing with both parents at the same time and witnessing their parents' dialogue. LC infants' affects were less positive; they addressed fewer positive triangular bids to their parents and tended to use a less triangular interactive mode. Thus, LC infants had fewer opportunities than did HC infants to acquire skills necessary for coping with triangular interaction.

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“…Since the influential work of Mary Ainsworth (1989) and the awareness of the formation of multiple key attachments (Schofield & Beek, 2005;Thompson & Raikes, 2003), the role of the father has been recognised as psychologically important in myriad ways (Condon, Corkindale & Boyce, 2008;Finger et al, 2009;Fivaz-Depeursinge et al, 2009). Within the context of psychological research, a majority of studies have focused on mothers; however, in more recent times, some emphasis has been placed on the paternal role and contribution (Caldera & Lindsay, 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%