["Reading-your-baby lessons" for parents of excessively crying infants--the concept of "guided parent-infant training sessions"].
New findings indicate that persistent crying (infantile "colic") may be closely interlinked with regulatory difficulties in the organization of sleep and waking states and in sustaining prolonged episodes of uninterrupted sleep. It has been shown that preverbal communication plays a significant role in the regulation of infant states and in the prevention of infantile persistent crying. However, parents are usually unaware of these explanations, and tend to attribute the crying to inappropriate causes or have no understanding at all about why their child cries so much. Therefore, the baby's signals are not answered in an effective way. In this article "guided parent-infant-training sessions", a new treatment method for parents with excessively crying babies, will be introduced. It is the goal of this approach to help parents to improve the "reading" of their child's signals and to act according to the baby's needs. In order to provide an opportunity for training, parents are given their appointment at a time, when it is most likely for the child to cry. In the context of a therapeutic relationship they may be experiencing for the first time calming a baby they previously thought to be inconsolable.
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D000328:Adult; D003448:Crying; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D018730:Infant Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D009633:Nonverbal Communication / Q000523:psychology; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011614:Psychotherapy, Brief / Q000379:methods*; D020178:Sleep Disorders, Circadian Rhythm / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*