title: [Family Climate, Parental Partner Relationships and Symptom Formation in Children - Mentalisation- Based Family Therapy for Childhood Headache].
abstract: The emotional family climate is considered both an effective risk and protective factor for child development. Factors such as negative experiences parents made during their childhood or adolescence, which can reoccur as intergenerational transmission, a low partnership quality and a high level of conflict seem to be particularly relevant for the quality of the emotional family climate. Consequently, the relationship between partners, as the core relation within families, is particularly important for the family climate and subsequently for the development of the child. For this reason, problems in parent relationships should receive special attention in family therapeutic interventions. Mentalisation-based family therapy (MBF-T) offers promising approaches in this context. The key principles of mentalisation are introduced and the links between family and mentalisation are presented, followed by information on the history, objectives and the procedures of MBF-T. A case study of a family therapy, in which a child suffers from chronic headache, illustrates the connection and interrelation between family climate, family conflicts and the parental relationship, and it will further show the importance of mentalisation-based elements for therapeutic treatments.
authors.affiliation: Klinische und Familienpsychologie, M.A. "Angewandte Familienwissenschaften", Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (HAW), Alexanderstraße 1, 20099 Hamburg;
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hantel-Quitmann
authors.affiliation: Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (HAW).
authors.forename: Katja
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Weidtmann
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002648:Child; D004243:Divorce / Q000523:psychology; D019260:Expressed Emotion; D054541:Family Conflict / Q000523:psychology; D005195:Family Relations / Q000523:psychology*; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D020773:Headache Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D016901:Intergenerational Relations; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D056345:Theory of Mind
keywords: Bindung; Mentalisieren; Paarkonflikte; emotional bonds; emotional family climate; emotionales Familienklima; intergenerational transmission; intergenerationale Transmission; mentalisation; partner conflicts