[Integrative parent-infant psychotherapy for early regulatory and relationship disorders].
The author introduces both the concept and practice of Integrative Parent-Infant Psychotherapy (IPI-P), a treatment specifically designed for the most frequent developmental problems and psychological needs of infants and their parents. Based on growing knowledge from interdisciplinary infancy research, both basic and clinical, IPI-P has been developed and practised in the "Munich Interdisciplinary Research and Intervention Program" for early regulatory and relationship disorders since the early nineties. Preverbal parent-infant communication represents both the port of entry into the system and the main focus of diagnostics, developmental counselling, interaction guidance, or psychodynamic psychotherapy of distorted communication and distressed/disordered relationships. The method of videomicroanalysis during video-feedback with the parent has proven particularly efficient--while observing, reliving and working through brief episodes of recorded parent-infant interaction. The author illustrates the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures with excerpts from psychotherapy of a toddler with an age-specific regulatory disorder in the context of severely distressed primary relationships.
Papousek
Mechthild
M
Institut für Soziale Pädiatrie und Jugendmedizin, Universität München. cry.kiz@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
de Chuquisengo
Ruth Wollwerth
RW
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003142:Communication; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D004493:Education / Q000379:methods; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008393:Marriage / Q000523:psychology; D009769:Object Attachment; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods; D012539:Scapegoating; D012917:Social Adjustment; D014741:Video Recording