title: RESTORING SAFETY: AN ATTACHMENT-BASED APPROACH TO CLINICAL WORK WITH A TRAUMATIZED TODDLER.
abstract: This clinical case study explores the integration of infancy research, brain development, attachment theory, and models of infant-parent/child-parent psychotherapy to address the needs of abused and neglected young children placed in foster or adoptive homes. Traumatized children employ defensive strategies to survive when there is no "good enough" caregiver (D.W. Winnicott, 1953, p. 94), and helping professionals can provide therapeutic experiences to develop or restore a child's sense of safety. With the case example of Anthony and his foster/adoptive parents, I illustrate how to manage and contain a traumatized child's terror, rage, and grief through therapeutic sessions with the parent and child together, and supportive parental guidance. I promote attention to the child's ability to self-integrate and to regulate his own affect, and encourages secure-base parental responses that facilitate a child's shift toward secure attachment behavior.
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan.
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ribaudo
mesh_terms: D002649:Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005195:Family Relations / Q000523:psychology*; D005581:Foster Home Care; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012449:Safety
keywords: Misshandlung von Säuglingen; Psychotherapie bei Kleinkindern; Säuglings-Eltern-Psychotherapie; Trennung und Verlust bei Kleinkindern; infant maltreatment; infant mental health; infant-parent psychotherapy; maltraitance du bébé; maltrato infantil; mentale Gesundheit von Säuglingen; psychothérapie bébé-parent; psychothérapie du jeune enfant; salud mental infantil; santé mentale du nourrisson; separación y pérdida del pequeño infante; sicoterapia de niños pequeños; sicoterapia infante-progenitor; séparation et perte chez le petit enfant; toddler separation and loss; young child psychotherapy; 乳児-親心理療法; 乳児メンタルヘルス; 乳児虐待; 嬰兒與父母的心理治療; 幼い子どもの心理療法; 幼児の分離と喪失; 幼兒分離和損失; 幼兒心理健康; 幼兒心理治療; 虐待嬰兒