Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting

Keeping the Child's Mind in Mind

Contributions by Leon Hoffman, Regina Pally, Paulene Popek Edited by M. Hossein Etezady, Mary Davis

Publication date:

02 August 2012

Length of book:

144 pages

Publisher

Jason Aronson, Inc.

ISBN-13: 9780765709011

Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting: Keeping the Child’s Mind in Mind describes the Center for Reflective Parenting and techniques developed at the Center for helping parents to be able to understand and reflect on their children’s emotional states, as a way of helping them to be more effective parents. Discussion of neurobiological correlates of “reflective parenting,” and of similar techniques used at the Pacella Child Center and in other settings, places the clinical technique in the context of other work directed at helping parents help their children to grow up emotionally healthy.

Preface Introduction: The Seeds of an IdeaChapter 1: Reflective Parenting and the Origins of the Center for Reflective Parenting
Chapter 2: Why and How CRP BeganChapter 3: CRP Direct Services and Training ProgramsChapter 4: Working with Different Clinical PopulationsChapter 5: Neurobiology of ParentingChapter 6: Other Programs Similar to CRPChapter 7: Finding the Good GrandmotherBibliographyIndexAuthors and Editors

In implementing the principles of enhancing mentalization in parents and therewith in their children, this book details a well-reasoned, achievable strategy and program for optimizing the mother-child relationship. In that, it is a valuable contribution to the promotion of healthy psychological development and takes us meaningfully toward the prevention of experience-derived-emotional-disorders in the children. This book is a most welcome addition to the increasing efforts by psychoanalytic health professionals in fulfilling Freud’s (1933) optimism that psychoanalysis may contribute most meaningfully to the next generation’s upbringing.