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Working with Children and Adolescence - Coggle Diagram
Working with Children and Adolescence
What is Attachment based Family Therapy
Based on the innate need for strong interpersonal relationships
Finding the cause of relational distruct, and working on fixing this collaboratively
Skill development, E.g. Communication, active listenning, empathetic listenning
Tasks in ABFT
Identify cause of distrust in relaitonship
Adolescent alliance buildign
Parental alliance building
Attachment task
Adolescent expresses issues, parents listen, no guarentee to agree.
Autonomy-prompting
How can the adolescent become more autonomous? Workshop with parents and yp to come up with an action plan.
Research Finding on the Mechanisms of Change
Over 1st 4 sessions, maternal psychological control decreased, and perceived parental care increased.
Therefore, is effective and evidence based
Attachment security in childhood
Anxious
Parents are intermittently available
Avoidant
Consistently unavailable emotionally
Disorganised
May be unavailable/insensitive, could also be freightening
Transactional Model of Development
Rejects that there is a cause and effect relaitonship for psychopathology
It is a risk model: What is the probability of this factor contributing to psychopathology?
Equi-finality
Dif experiences = similar outcomes
Multi-finality
Similar experiences = DIf outcomes
Developmental pathway
Development = multiple rail tracks diverging from a central point
Adverse experiences push the child to a maladaptive developmental pathway (Beneficial experience = "normal" developmental pathway)
Affect Regulation Theory
Neural connections in infancy are formed through "serve and return" interactions with caregivers.
With continued interation's with their environment, children develop more neural connections, which predicts the ability to regulate emotions, and appraise others' emotional states.
Intersubjectivity
Primary
Infant and parent discover eachother
Here and now focus
Discovery focus for both infant and parent.
Secondary
Infant understands that there are other things in the world beyond the primary caregiver.
Bowlby Attachment Theory
Theory of process rather than outcome
Early Experiences are very important
Theory of normal development and psychopathology
Genograms
Square
Male
Circle
Female
Triangle
Unborn
Solid line
Eduring relationship
Solid line with a line through it
Separation
Spotted line