The Practice of Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy

Baradon, Tessa; Biseo, Michela; Broughton, Carol; James, Jessica; Joyce, Angela

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“…In addition to routine care, as described earlier, dyads in the PIP group were invited to attend appointments with a parent–infant psychotherapist. The model of intervention was manualized (Baradon et al., ) and provided by six experienced parent–infant psychotherapists. The clinicians implementing the intervention were among those who developed the model and its manualization, and thus were familiar with the nuances of implementation.…”

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“…Others aim to challenge and alter the representational world of both parent and infant. The premise upon which these approaches have evolved is that the underlying unconscious processes that impinge upon the relationship need to be addressed to effectively promote positive parenting practices and attachment and developmental outcomes for the infant (Baradon et al., ; Fraiberg, Adelson, & Shapiro, ; Frost, ; Lieberman & Pawl, ). In practice, many current attachment‐based approaches to working with parents and babies aim to intervene at both the behavioral and representational levels.…”

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Randomized Controlled Trial of Parent-Infant Psychotherapy for Parents With Mental Health Problems and Young Infants

Fonagy

Sleed

Baradon

2016

Infant Ment. Health J.

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There is a dearth of good-quality research investigating the outcomes of psychoanalytic parent-infant psychotherapy (PIP). This randomized controlled trial investigated the outcomes of PIP for parents with mental health problems who also were experiencing high levels of social adversity and their young infants (<12 months). Dyads were clinically referred and randomly allocated to PIP or a control condition of standard secondary and specialist primary care treatment (n = 38 in each group). Outcomes were assessed at baseline and at 6-month and 12-month follow-ups. The primary outcome was infant development. Secondary outcomes included parent-infant interaction, maternal psychopathology, maternal representations, maternal reflective functioning, and infant attachment. There were no differential effects over time between the groups on measures of infant development, parent-infant interaction, or maternal reflective functioning. Infant attachment classifications, measured only at the 12-month follow-up, did not differ between the groups. There were favorable outcomes over time for the PIP-treated dyads relative to the control group on several measures of maternal mental health, parenting stress, and parental representations of the baby and their relationship. The findings indicate potential benefits of parent-infant psychotherapy for improving mothers' psychological well-being and their representations of their baby and the parent-infant relationship.

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Section: Relational Interventions For Parents and Infantsmentioning

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Randomized Controlled Trial of Parent-Infant Psychotherapy for Parents With Mental Health Problems and Young Infants

Fonagy

Sleed

Baradon

2016

Infant Ment. Health J.

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142

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“…A volume by this group (Baradon et al, 2005) illustrates a trend among some present-day PTIP therapists; they wish to integrate Freudian metapsychology with infant research, attachment theory, and developmental psychology, but they do not always acknowledge that this creates theoretical tensions. The authors use a "psychoanalytic framework," which assumes that "unconscious material is to be addressed because it shapes the pathology" (p. 33).…”

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Psychodynamic Therapies with Infants and Parents: A Critical Review of Treatment Methods

Salomonsson¹

2014

Psychodynamic Psychiatry

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The theory of psychoanalysis has always relied on speculations about the infant's mind, but its clinical practice was slow in taking an interest in babies and their parents. The therapy methods that nevertheless have evolved during the last 50 years differ in their emphasis on support or insight, which roles they attribute to mother and baby in therapy, and to what extent they focus on the unconscious influences in mother and baby, respectively. They also differ to what extent their theories rely on classical psychoanalysis, attachment psychology, developmental psychology, and infant research. Each method also contains assumptions, most often tacit, about which kinds of samples for which they are most suited. The article describes the most well-known modes of psychodynamic therapy with infants and parents (PTIP). There is a certain emphasis on methods that are less known to the U.S. readership, such as the French and Scandinavian traditions. It submits them and the other methods to a critical review.

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“…A successful dyadic psychotherapy treatment has been modeled at the Anna Freud Centre in their Parent–Infant Project (Baradon, ) where work aims to help parents process their own emotions in relation to their baby while also using the therapist's relationship with the baby to support his or her development and to model different ways of relating to the parent. A key focus is on helping the parent to think about what the baby may be feeling.…”

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Parent-Infant Art Psychotherapy: A Creative Dyadic Approach to Early Intervention

Armstrong

Howatson

2015

Infant Ment. Health J.

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Art psychotherapy involves the use of the image-making process within a therapeutic relationship to help clients explore and communicate feelings and experiences. This article explores whether art psychotherapy groups can be an effective intervention for parent-infant dyads who may be involved with social work and health teams due to concerns about their relationship, possibly due to postnatal depression or attachment difficulties. We describe a model of parent-infant art psychotherapy groups and examine some of the key themes in this intervention alongside vignettes of case work and quantitative and qualitative evidence from the evaluations of two such groups. We believe that the Create Together group demonstrates how knowledge from research into infant mental health and attachments, together with an understanding of the creative process, can be applied in practice to offer a successful early intervention.

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The Practice of Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy

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Randomized Controlled Trial of Parent-Infant Psychotherapy for Parents With Mental Health Problems and Young Infants

Randomized Controlled Trial of Parent-Infant Psychotherapy for Parents With Mental Health Problems and Young Infants

Psychodynamic Therapies with Infants and Parents: A Critical Review of Treatment Methods

Parent-Infant Art Psychotherapy: A Creative Dyadic Approach to Early Intervention

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