Virtual care delivery of whole family assessment and intervention with infants and preschoolers: a thematic analysis of clinician and family experiences
This study provides a rich exploration of the perspectives of caregivers and clinicians engaged in virtual whole family mental health care during the COVID-19 pandemic. With adequate technology and privacy, whole family assessment and therapy, such as the LTP and RFP, provided via video teleconferencing facilitated accessible and effective care for families of young children with moderate to severe mental health challenges. Evidence suggests in-person and hybrid approaches to whole family assessment and therapy could be further tailored to meet the needs of families with young children and infants. (Source: Australian and ...
Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) - November 21, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Diane A. Philipp,
Klaudia Szczech,
Nick L. Hanson,
Gabrielle O'Hara,
Janai Puckett Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
First Nations perspectives and approaches to engagement in infant ‐family work: attending to cultural safety and service engagement
AbstractFirst Nations child and family practitioners, Alison Elliott and Clarisse Slater, yarn here with Jenn McIntosh about the cultural fit and importance of including infants in family therapy. They bring years of experience from the ‘Workin’ With the Mob' clinical program at The Bouverie Centre to bear on building safe and respectful engagement with First Nations peoples and families. They share a First Nations view of the call of the infant and their ancestry and their power to join in bringing healing to parent and family systems. They discuss safe engagement in attempting to build safety in the present, especial...
Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) - November 21, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alison Elliott,
Clarisse Slater,
Jessica E. Opie,
Jennifer E. McIntosh Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
The missing father: why can't infant mental health services keep dads in mind?
We present an imagined conversation between three mental health professionals working in a child and adolescent mental health service. Presented as a script, the var ious arguments, counterarguments, and reflections made by the three characters aim to bring the subject matter to life and capture something akin to an actual discussion between colleagues working in a child mental health service. A junior clinician notices that an infant case presented at the multi disciplinary team meeting did not mention the child's father. A senior clinician explains that the team's work usually focuses on the infant–mother relationship,...
Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) - November 21, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Izaak Lim,
Hannah McMillan,
Paul Robertson,
Richard Fletcher Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Exploring the effectiveness of emotionally focused therapy for depressive symptoms and relationship distress among couples in Taiwan: A single ‐arm pragmatic trial
AbstractThis is the first study to explore the effectiveness of emotionally focused couple therapy (EFT) for depressive symptoms and relationship distress among couples in Taiwan. This one-arm pragmatic trial assessed the clinical outcomes of 17 couples using multilevel modeling to investigate changes in depressive symptoms and relationship distress throughout treatment. Over half of the participants were moderately depressed and moderately distressed at baseline. Multilevel models revealed decreased depressive symptoms over time, with a small increase toward the end of treatment. However, no significant changes were obs...
Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - November 14, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Chi ‐Fang Tseng,
Andrea K. Wittenborn,
Preston C. Morgan,
Ting Liu Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Being a Program Director in a Mental Health Training Program - A Candid Reflection
This article builds on the existing literature by providing a candid insider ’s perspective on what it is like to be a program director of a mental health training program. The article describes twelve areas where program directors may experience challenges, such as developing a leadership style, the potential impact on relationships (e.g., power), managing triangulation, addressing the impact of the role on teaching and scholarship, dealing with burnout, managing accreditation, and working with university administrators. In each of these areas, recommendations for how a program director might navigate these challenges a...
Source: Contemporary Family Therapy - November 13, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Therapeutic Work with Parents ’ Childhood Experiences in the Context of Intensive Home-Based Treatment for High-Risk Youth: Practical Mentalization-Based and Trauma-Informed Interventions
AbstractAlthough childhood experiences are widely recognized for their potential impact on adult health and happiness, clinical practices apt to solicit and process such experiences with adult clients are often not described in sufficient detail to offer meaningful guidance. The present paper describes how to use the Important Childhood Events (ICE) scale to anchor psychotherapeutic work with parents of extremely high-risk youth in intensive home-based treatment, where childhood experiences may ultimately provide a salient port of entry into identifying and addressing parents ’ perceptions of their own children’s diffi...
Source: Contemporary Family Therapy - November 9, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Common Themes Among CSA Survivors: A Content Analysis
AbstractAlthough there have been policies implemented across universities that aid in providing safety and transparency to students reporting Campus Sexual Assault (CSA), the literature suggests that many campus sexual assaults are still underreported. The present content analysis aims to illuminate common themes within narratives of CSA survivors to better understand survivors ’ experience about the incident and will highlight thoughts and feelings on the reporting process. Results of this research inform therapeutic interventions, policy making, and the process of reporting sexual assault at universities in the United ...
Source: Contemporary Family Therapy - November 8, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Relationships Among Parents ’ Anxious and Avoidant Attachment, Emotion Dysregulation, and Parenting
AbstractDespite the conceptual assumption that attachment-related anxiety or avoidance negatively affects parenting, studies have not provided consistent evidence. Furthermore, most studies have included only mothers and focused on young children. This knowledge gap may limit family therapy practitioners ’ ability to address attachment-related issues effectively when working with parents. Using structural equation modeling to test an Actor-Partner Interdependence Model, we examined emotion dysregulation as a mediator between adult attachment-related anxiety and avoidance style and nurturing and ha rsh parenting behaviors...
Source: Contemporary Family Therapy - November 3, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Facilitating children’s in-session involvement in child and family therapies: A dynamic framework of clinical practices.
Psychotherapy, Vol 61(1), Mar 2024, 55-67; doi:10.1037/pst0000511Children’s in-session involvement in child and family therapies correlates with both positive and negative treatment outcomes. Thus, it is important to gain a better understanding of the clinical practices that facilitate children’s involvement in therapy sessions so that practitioners can employ them with greater precision. To address this need, we conducted a study to answer the following question: What clinical practices facilitate children’s in-session involvement in child and family therapies? The data consisted of 16 extant audiovisual recordings ...
Source: Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training - November 2, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Childhood Abuse and Chronic Physical Health Conditions in Adulthood: A Longitudinal Analysis of Familial Support and Strain as Mediators
AbstractParentally perpetrated childhood abuse is associated with physical health difficulties and familial support and strain may be possible mediators. Further, the associations among parentally perpetrated abuse in childhood, familial relationships in adulthood, and health may vary across age and gender. The current study examined familial support and strain over a 20-year period as mediators linking childhood abuse to chronic health conditions among adults, and examined gender and age as moderators. Using three waves of data from the study of Midlife Development in the United States (n = 2,377), results from a str...
Source: Contemporary Family Therapy - November 1, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
No Bad Parts: Healing trauma and restoring wholeness with the internal family systems model By R. C. Schwartz, Boulder, CO: Sounds True. 2021. pp. 199.
(Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy)
Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - October 31, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeffrey Kraft Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research
Contributing Factors to Reporting Intimate Partner Violence as a Clinical Concern
AbstractIntimate partner violence (IPV) is a prevalent problem in clinical populations. However, many couples experiencing IPV do not report it to their therapists, and many therapists do not systematically screen for IPV. This creates a dangerous situation where IPV is going unidentified, placing couples at risk for future violence and limiting the effectiveness of therapy. The purpose of this study was to identify whether there were differences in psychopathology, relationship satisfaction, substance use, post-traumatic stress symptoms, perception of safety, and childhood violence exposures between couples who report IPV...
Source: Contemporary Family Therapy - October 31, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
“Mixed:” Exploring Narratives of Single Mothers and Adult Children in Multiple Heritage Families
This study contributes to understanding the cultural and ethnic identity formation of multiple heritage individuals and the implications for cultural awareness in working with families with diverse compositions and with multiple heritage members. Some highlights of the study include: the navigation of choices by single mothers in educating children about cultural history representing both sides of their family; children expressed pride in their identity by embracing all parts of their heritage, despite marginalization and discrimination; family relationships with fathers, sibling dynamics, and parenting styles influenced c...
Source: Contemporary Family Therapy - October 30, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Development and psychometric properties of the Couple Interaction Pattern Scale
This study developed the Couple Interaction Pattern Scale (CIPS) based on the interpersonal theory, comprising five subscales: friendly complementary (FC), hostile complementary (HC), mutual hostile-dominant (MHD), friendly-dominant eliciting hostile-submissive (FDHS), and hostile-dominant eliciting friendly-submissive (HDFS). The psychometric properties of the CIPS were examined through three independent studies. Study one conducted item reduction and preliminary analysis using a sample of 662 married individuals, with an additional 80 married individuals for test –retest reliability assessment. Study two validated the ...
Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - October 28, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Xiaoyi Fang,
Ziyuan Chen,
Wei Tong,
Caixin Gao,
Hongyu Zhang,
Qingyin Li Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Black therapists' experiences with their Black clients: A systematic review
AbstractThis systematic review explores Black therapists' experiences with their Black clients. The search initially identified 459 possible articles. Through the study selection process, following the Cochrane Collaboration's guidelines, the 459 studies were narrowed down to 11 studies. A total of eight qualitative studies and three quantitative studies were identified. The analytic process of this review mirrored that of a thematic analysis due to the proportion of qualitative articles. Five themes emerged:Understanding the Black Experience, Connection to Clients, Working with Black Clients, Working While Black, andTrain...
Source: Journal of Marital and Family Therapy - October 27, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alexus Hamilton Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
