Helping Families of Infants With Persistent Crying and Sleep Problems in a Day-Clinic
| Autor: | Binu S. K. Singh, Marina Danckaerts, Bea R. H. Van den Bergh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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co-regulation
parent–child relation lcsh:RC435-571 CHILDHOOD Psychological intervention excessive crying Affect (psychology) parent– 03 medical and health sciences child relation REGULATORY DISORDERS 0302 clinical medicine lcsh:Psychiatry 030225 pediatrics Intervention (counseling) medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ASSOCIATIONS Psychiatry sleep problems OUTCOMES Infant mental health Science & Technology infant regulatory problems STABILITY Crying MOTHERS 05 social sciences EMOTION REGULATION MINDFUL infant Mental health window of tolerance Family life ATTACHMENT Psychiatry and Mental health Distress Perspective PRESCHOOL medicine.symptom day-clinic treatment Psychology Life Sciences & Biomedicine 050104 developmental & child psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Psychiatry, Vol 12 (2021) Frontiers in Psychiatry |
| ISSN: | 1664-0640 |
| Popis: | Excessive crying and sleep problems affect up to 30% of infants and often coexist. Although usually benign and self-limiting, persistent crying, and sleep problems exceeding 6 months of age need attention as they may impair the mental health of the infant and its family. The source and the impact of these persistent regulatory problems is often not restricted to the infant, but extends to the parents and the parent-infant relationship. Clinical practice needs interdisciplinary and multi-method interventions focusing beyond regulatory problems of the infant but also on parental self-regulation and parent's co-regulatory responses toward the infant. Treating clinicians may encounter limitations of home-visits, outpatient, and pediatric residential settings when working with families in distress. We describe an infant mental health day-clinic treatment, drawing attention to this viable future direction. It offers a therapeutic climate based on forming a triangle of co-regulation between clinician, parent and infant to first help the parent and the infant settle down. This stress reduction restores parent-infant connectedness and parental learning and reflecting capacity. Clinicians then use established therapeutic modalities to support parental self- and co-regulatory skills which is important for the development of self-regulation in the infant. Experience with this treatment program suggests that a day-clinic setting facilitates interdisciplinary and integrative multi-method intervention, infant and parental stress reduction and integration of parental self- and co-regulatory skills in daily family life, improving overall outcomes. This perspective warrants further investigation. ispartof: FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY vol:12 ispartof: location:Switzerland status: published |
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