[Family Psychiatry - The Attachment-Focused, Systemic-Oriented, Integrative Concept of the Family Therapy Centre (FaTC), an Acute Multi-Family Day Clinic].

[Family Psychiatry - The Attachment-Focused, Systemic-Oriented, Integrative Concept of the Family Therapy Centre (FaTC), an Acute Multi-Family Day Clinic]. Prax Kinderpsychol Kinderpsychiatr. 2019 Jun;68(5):419-437 Authors: Oelkers-Ax R, Heineken K Abstract Family Psychiatry - The Attachment-Focused, Systemic-Oriented, Integrative Concept of the Family Therapy Centre (FaTC), an Acute Multi-Family Day Clinic Up to three quarters of the children of mentally ill parents develop a mental disorder during their lifetime. The transmission occurs essentially through dysfunctional interaction and disturbed attachment. Parent-child interaction is characterized by a vicious circle of escalating symptoms in the child and increasing helplessness in the parents. For this family psychiatric approaches are helpful, which address the interaction in addition to the individual disorders. The Family Therapy Centre (FaTC) Neckargemünd offers family psychiatric, integrated therapy for parents and children in an acute day clinic multi-family setting. The basic therapeutic principles are attachment orientation, mentalisation and systemic perspective with a multi-family therapy approach. Typical family psychiatric case constellations are presented, for which the concept seems particularly helpful: (1) Early childhood regulatory disorders in interaction with mentally ill parents, (2) mother with PTSD and expansive-aggressive preschool child and (3) adolescen...
Source: Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie - Category: Child Development Tags: Prax Kinderpsychol Kinderpsychiatr Source Type: research