Full Description
How can clinicians help vulnerable young families overcome barriers to secure, reciprocal, and joyful parent-infant relationships? This book provides a flexible framework for promoting reflective parenting "from the ground up." Described are effective ways to support safety and self-regulation in parents with histories of trauma and adversity, giving them a stronger foundation for seeing, hearing, and connecting to their children. The book distills principles of the influential Minding the Baby (MTB) home visiting program, as well as contemporary attachment and mentalization research. Vivid case material illustrates therapeutic strategies that can be used with parents and children in any clinical context. End-of-chapter "Questions for Clinicians" help readers apply the concepts discussed, with special attention to developing their own reflective capacities.
Contents
Preface
Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations
1. Minding the Baby™ and Reflective Parenting: An Introduction
I. Theoretical and Scientific Bases for Minding the Baby Parenting
2. The Foundations of Attachment Theory and Research
3. Pathways to Secure Attachment: Caregiver Sensitivity
4. Pathways to Secure Attachment: Parental Mentalizing
5. Impaired Mentalizing and Trauma
6. Adversity, Toxic Stress, and Resilience
II. Establishing the Relational Foundations of Reflection
7. The Relational Foundations of Reflection
8. The Relational Foundations of Reflection in the Clinician
9. The Relational Foundations of Reflection in Parents and Children
III. Building Reflective Capacities
10. Enhancing Parental Reflective Functioning: General Considerations
11. Reflective Nursing
12. Parental Mental Health
13. Clinical Applications of the Pregnancy and Parent Development Interviews
IV. Clinical Applications of Minding the Baby Parenting
14. Brenda, Aidan, and Allie
15. Yolanda, Manny, and Mildred
16. Genevieve, Jared, and Jimmy
17. Embracing Complexity
Appendix I. The Pregnancy Interview, Arietta Slade
Appendix II. The Parent Development Interview--Short Version (2004), Arietta Slade, J. Lawrence Aber, Brenda Berger, Ivan Bresgi, and Merryle Kaplan
References
Index
