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The Origins, Clinical Innovations and Evidence-Basis for Infant and Early Childhood Psychotherapy Consuelo E. Cavalieri, Ph.D. Cavalieri, C. E. (2011, May). The origins, clinical innovations and evidence-basis for infant and early childhood psychotherapy. Workshop presented at the meeting of the Minnesota Association for Children’s Mental Health, Duluth, Minnesota. Plan for Today’s Presentation • Historical Perspectives • Attachment Theory • Relationship Intervention • Evidence-Basis for Child-Parent Psychotherapy Infant Mental Health Competencies • Relationship-Based, Therapeutic Practice • Psychotherapeutic and Behavioral Theories of Change Institutional Care Restricted Visiting Hours “A Two Year Old Goes to Hospital” Protest, Despair, & Detachment Sequence (Bowlby, 1969/1982; Bretherton, 1992; Karen, 1994; Markel, 2008) Hospitalism “...a vitiated condition of the body due to long confinement in a hospital, or the morbid condition of the atmosphere of a hospital.” (Spitz, 1945, p. 53) The Role of Maternal Deprivation on Development Environment Parental Home Institution (Spitz, 1945) Cultural and Social Background Developmental Quotient first 4 months Developmental Quotient last 4 months Professional (Urban) 133 131 Village (isolated, fishing) 107 108 Nursery (penal institution for 101.5 delinquent girls) 105 Foundling Home 72 124 Spitz’ Additional Findings • Extreme friendliness (indiscriminate friendliness) • Anxious avoidance of inanimate objects • Generalized anxiety--blood curdling screams • Bizarre stereotyped motor patterns (disorganized attachment) • Delays in language acquisition, independent feeding, walking • Susceptibility to illness (Spitz, 1945) Dispelling the Feeding Hypothesis Wire vs. Cloth Mother Surrogate Contact Comfort (Harlow, 1958) Attachment Theory The propensity to be “strongly disposed to seek proximity to and contact with a specific figure and to do so in certain situations, notably when he is frightened, tired or ill.” (Bowlby, 1982, p. 371) Internal Working Models • Self & Other • Expectations • Misinformation (Bowlby, 1980; Bretherton, 1987, 1990; Bretherton & Munholland, 2008) Patterns of Attachment • Sensitive Responsiveness • Strange Situation • Secure • Anxious Avoidant • Anxious Ambivalent/Resistant • Disorganized (Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, & Wall, 1978; Main & Solomon, 1986) Ghosts in the Nursery “In every nursery, there are ghosts...” (Fraiberg, 1980) Child-Parent Psychotherapy (Lieberman & Van Horn, 2008) Culture & Context Adaptive Functioning • Emotions without lasting collapse • Trusting relationships • Development of culturally competent behavior (Lieberman & Van Horn, 2008) Format • Presence of attachment figures • Flexible session length • Location in home, clinic or other setting • Range of toys (Lieberman & Van Horn, 2008) Domains of Functioning • Presenting Problem • Cognitive • Social • Emotional (Lieberman & Van Horn, 2008) Continuum of Adaptive-Maladaptive • Perturbations--healthy features of functioning despite strains • Disturbances--problematic but subclinical distress • Disorders--meet criteria for diagnosis (Lieberman & Van Horn, 2008) Attachment-Caregiving Relationship Problems • Role Reversal • Elevated Distress • Withdrawn (Lieberman & Van Horn, 2008) Talking to Children About Therapy • Link prior distressing/frightening experiences to arrival for therapy • Work with parent to prepare child prior to first session (Lieberman & Van Horn, 2008) Primary Clinical Task: to serve as translator of the child and parent’s subjective experiences (Lieberman & Van Horn, 2008) Therapeutic Strategies • Developmental Guidance • Putting Feelings into Words: Trauma Narratives • Modeling Protective Behavior (Lieberman & Van Horn, 2008) Clinical Trials with Child Parent Psychotherapy • Anxiously attached toddlers who have immigrated to U.S. • Preschoolers exposed to Marital Violence • Toddler’s of Depressed Mothers • Maltreated Preschoolers (Cicchetti, Rogosch, & Toth, 2000; Lieberman, Ippen, & Van Horn, 2006; Lieberman, Van Horn, & Ippen, 2005; Lieberman, Weston, & Pawl, 1991; Toth, Maughan, Manly, Spagnola, & Cicchetti, 2002) Toddlers Who Were Anxiously Attached to Mothers Reduced Toddler’s Angry Behavior Decreased Avoidance Decreased Resistance Promoted Goal-Corrected Partnership (Lieberman, et al., 1991) Preschoolers’ Exposed to Marital Violence Treatment End •Reduced child’s traumatic symptoms and diagnoses of PTSD •Reduced child’s behavior problems •Mothers showed less avoidance symptoms of PTSD (Lieberman, et al., 2006; Lieberman, et al., 2005) 6-month follow-up • Children had fewer behavioral problems compared to control • Mothers reported less psychological distress Toddlers of Depressed Mothers Prevented cognitive decreases that occurred with children of depressed mothers (Cicchetti, et al., 2000) Maltreated Preschoolers •Increase in adaptive representations of mothers •Decrease in maladaptive representations of mothers •Increase in positive self-representations •Decrease in negative self-representations (Toth, et al., 2002) Summary of Evidence Children Mothers • Restoration of safety • Increase in empathic understanding • Decreased negative selfrepresentations • Reduced psychological distress • Reduced PTSD symptoms • Increased positive self-representations • Prevention of cognitive declines assoc. with maternal depression • Reduced problematic behaviors Recommendations for Practice 1.The Relationship is the client, not the individuals 2.Good developmental knowledge is essential 3.Sometimes observing rather than actively intervening is best 4.Need supervisor who is your secure base with whom you reflect upon your “ghosts” and the feelings associated with this work (Lieberman & Van Horn, 2008) References Ainsworth, M. 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