Within- and between-session changes of in-session reflective functioning of mothers in dyadic parent-infant psychotherapy

• Verfasst von: Georg, Anna [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Kasper, Lea A. [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Neubauer, Andreas B. [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Selic, Maximilian [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Taubner, Svenja [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Within- and between-session changes of in-session reflective functioning of mothers in dyadic parent-infant psychotherapy
• Verf.angabe: Anna Katharina Georg, Lea Amelie Kasper, Andreas B. Neubauer, Maximilian Selic, & Svenja Taubner
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: 14 Mar 2024
• Umfang: 13 S.
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 15.08.2024
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Psychotherapy research
• Ort Quelle: London [u.a.] : Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, 1991
• Jahr Quelle: 2024
• Band/Heft Quelle: (2024), Seite 1-13
• ISSN Quelle: 1468-4381
• DOI: doi:10.1080/10503307.2024.2323617
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: change process
• Sach-SW: In-session reflective functioning
• Sach-SW: mentalizing
• Sach-SW: parent-infant psychotherapy
• Sach-SW: regulatory disorders
• K10plus-PPN: 1898756007

Abstract

This study investigated if in-session reflective functioning (RF) of mothers improved between and within sessions of brief dyadic focused parent-infant psychotherapy (fPIP) for the treatment of regulatory disorders in infants. In-session RF was coded for 44 therapy sessions from N = 11 mothers randomly selected from a RCT on the efficacy of fPIP as part of secondary analyses. A new rating system distinguished self-focused and child-focused in-session RF. Cumulative ordinal regression models were applied to analyze the dynamics of in-session RF within and across sessions, controlling for word count of each statement. While in-session RF improved significantly within sessions, between-session RF improved significantly only in the second session compared to the first with a significant decrease observed in the last session. Child-focused in-session RF was significantly lower than self-focused in-session RF at the beginning of the sessions but improved significantly stronger than self-focused in-session RF during sessions. In-session RF (particularly in child-focused statements) can be regarded as a dynamic change process relevant within each session of dyadic fPIP. Improvements made on a session-by-session basis may not be maintained until the next session. Implications for practitioners and in-session RF research are discussed.