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The quality of family interactions and marital satisfaction from pregnancy to the child’s age of 10 years: A preliminary report.
Full text linkFamily-level interactions became over last years one of the main
focus of developmental and clinical research in developmental psychology and psychopathology. Since the demonstration of the emergence of triadic competences at the child’s 12 weeks of life, the role of triadic interactions in family functioning have been observed from different theoretical and methodological approaches, usually focusing on newborn families and the early infancy of the child. In this work, we will present a preliminary report about the development of the quality of family interactions and marital satisfaction, from pregnancy to the child’s age of 10 years. Family interactions were assessed on 14 non-referred families using the Lausanne Trilogue Play (LTP) paradigm and marital adjustment was assessed using the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS). Results show that family interactions improve from pregnancy until the 9th month and then remain stable until school age. The mother’s perception of marital satisfaction, instead,
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Quality of family interactions and marital satisfaction from pregnancy to 10 years of the child: A preliminary report.
No full textInternalized sexual stigma and psychological well-being: exploratory research on italian and belgian gay and lesbian people
No full textNumerous researches have shown that in homosexual people the internalized homophobia is a risk factor for mental health, whereas the social support is a protective factor. Internalized homophobia affects the onset of mental disorders and it’s related to less social support (Mc Gregor et al. 2001; Szymanski et al., 2008). The aim of this research is to understand if the legislative context can influence the psychological well-being. For this reasons we have analyzed the levels of internalized homophobia, anxiety, depression and social support in two groups of gay and lesbian people coming from Italy and Belgium. These two European countries are very different in terms of civil rights of the LGBT population. The sample is composed of 194 adults (M=29 years, SD=9.08). From the analyzed questionnaires (MISS- LG, BDI, STAI, MSPSS) has emerged that the investigated constructions are well related to each other and that the levels of internalized homophobia are higher in the Belgian gay group, who enjoy the same civil rights of the heterosexual people, more than in the Italian one. This particular result could be related to a greater frequency of coming out of Belgians compared to Italians or to a sort of defence reaction of the Italian group to the tests, affected by the continuous negations of their civil rights. Future researches should focus both on the several aspects of the coming- out process and on the family support, which plays a huge role in mental health
De deux à trois... Transition à la parentalité et alliances familiales dans les familles lesboparentales.
No full textLe présent travail s’intéresse au moment particulier du cycle de vie familial dénommé "transition à la parentalité". Les études ayant approfondi ce moment délicat ont souligné la nécessité d’adopter une perspective multifactorielle et procédurale pour une meilleure compréhension du système en voie de développement (Belsky, 1984). Deux principaux facteurs d'étude ont été déterminés : a) le développement des compétences interactives de la famille, la capacité du couple à organiser des modèles interactifs triadiques pendant la grossesse et de les réorganiser successivement dans la relation avec l'enfant; b) les caractéristiques propre à l'enfant, par exemple le tempérament, sont des facteurs pouvant influencer le développement des compétences interactives précoces ainsi que le style de parenting. Ces aspects ont été amplement étudiés au sein des familles hétéroparentales (Fivaz et al. 2001, Favez et al. 2010, McHale et al. 2001) mais très peu au sein des familles homoparentales (D’Amore et al., 2011). La plupart des recherches se sont intéressées à une comparaison du développement de l'enfant dans de ces deux types de familles, et ce sur différentes dimensions telles que la qualité des relations parent-enfant; le développement cognitif; le développement psycho-social; et l'identité de genre (Vecho & Schneider 2005). Nous proposons ici de présenter la situation d’une famille, issue de la recherche longitudinale que nous effectuons actuellement au sein du Service de Clinique Systémique et Psychopathologie Relationnelle de l’Université de Liège. Notre exposé présentera deux étapes de la passation du Lausanne Trilogue Play: prénatale au 7° mois de grossesse et postnatale au 3° mois de vie de l’enfant (Fivaz-Depeursinge, & Corboz-Warnery, 1999). Nous observerons l’intérêt de cette procédure du LTP prénatal en tant qu’instrument prédictif des capacités parentales à agir leurs compétences interactives à la naissance de l'enfant, vérifiées par la procédure du LTP postnatal
Co-parenting among Lesbian Headed Families Two contrasted cases
Full text linkpeer reviewedThe parental function is an individual competence taking place within a dyadic interaction and relationship between adult and infant; and in which each parent actualizes with the infant independently from the other parent. Co-parenting, instead, concerns the ways in which mothers and fathers function together as parents, how they cooperate, support and/or undermine each other in their reciprocal presence or absence and how they manage triadic processes. This key notion inserted with good marital and parent-child relationship seems correlated with good child outcomes (e.g., Brown, et al., 2010). Numerous longitudinal studies has observed co-parenting in “traditional families” (e.g. Favez at al. 2012) and his impact on family alliance; in lesbian headed family co-parenting was studying mainly in terms of couples’ division of family labor (Patterson & Farr, 2011), which researchers view as one aspect of co-parenting (e.g., Feinberg, 2003). In this paper we observe two contrasted co-parenting in two lesbian headed families. Co-parenting will be observed at the help of Lausanne Trilogue Play approach (LTP Fivaz-Depeursinge & Corboz-Warnery’s 1999) during triadic family interaction
Psychopathological and Interactive-Relational Characteristics in Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Adolescent Outpatients
Full text linkNon-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is described as behaviors that directly and intentionally inflict damage to body tissue without suicidal intent and for reasons not linked to cultural expectations or norms. Literature has confirmed several “specific risk factors” related to NSSI behaviors; emotional reactivity, internalizing problems, alexithymia traits, and maladaptive family functioning can predispose an individual to intrapersonal and interpersonal vulnerabilities related to difficulties in regulating one’s own cognitive-emotional experience. The present study aims to analyze and define the psychopathological and family interactive-relational characteristics of adolescents with NSSI through a case-control study. Thirty-one patients with NSSI and thirty-one patients without NSSI paired for sex, age, and psychiatric diagnosis (ICD-10) were recruited in Padua among two Child Neuropsychiatry Units before the COVID-19 pandemic. Results show a higher prevalence of internalizing problems, alexithymia trait related to “difficulty identifying feelings”, and lower quality of family functioning related to inclusion of partners, child involvement, and child self-regulation. These results carry significant implications for the clinical management and therapeutic care of non-suicidal self-injury patients and further confirm the need for an in-depth investigation of internalizing problems, alexithymia, and quality of family interactions
Non-suicidal self-injury in inpatient and outpatient adolescents: disentangling psychopathology and interactive family dynamics
Full text linkBackground: Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is defined as a transdiagnostic phenomenon that has well increased in the latest years, especially in the adolescent population. It has been associated with suicidality, alexithymia, emotion dysregulation, and psychosocial impairment, as well as family issues. The choice of level of care (i.e., hospitalization versus outpatient visit) depends on a number of factors that relate not only to suicidal risk but also to severity of individual's psychosocial functioning, the ability of family environment to support treatment choices and to contain child, as well as the need for ongoing monitoring of the young patient. A scarcity of studies has compared outpatients with inpatients, both of them engaging in NSSI. Methods: the current study aimed to further expand knowledge regarding features that characterize young self-harmers who receive different levels of care, with particular attention on psychopathological, family, and NSSI-related characteristics, as well as suicidality. The current research included 56 inpatients and 56 outpatients with NSSI, paired for gender, age, and psychiatric diagnosis. Instruments investigating psychopathology, emotion dysregulation, alexithymia, psychosocial functioning, and interactive family dynamics were administered. Descriptive statistics, parametric and non-parametric inferential statistics were applied. Results: study findings highlighted that inpatients engaging in NSSI reported lifetime suicidality, clinical level of externalizing and internalizing problems, more severe alexithymia, emotion dysregulation, and impaired psychosocial functioning compared to outpatients engaging in self-harming. Furthermore, when compared to outpatients' families, inpatients' families were more capable of adhering to rules and time of the family play situation (the Lausanne Trilogue Play procedure) and fixing interactive mistakes through activities. On the contrary, in the inpatient group, global performance, role implication, parental scaffolding, child's involvement and self regulation tend to decline, while parental conflicts tend to rise over the four part scenario of the family play. Conclusion: these findings confirmed a more severe global picture of young inpatients engaging in self-harming, suggesting that NSSI may be the expression of this larger psychopathological picture. In addition, the study highlighted the need for a multi-informant and multimethod clinical assessment, which should include evaluation of family context and co-parenting system, especially for hospitalized young patients engaging in self-harm
Two Perspectives On Drug-Addiction In Young Age: Neuropsyhcological Functioning And Personality Traits.
No full textHow to work with new families? The contribution of the LTP and PNG in interactional researches and clinical contexts with lesbian-headed and divorced families.
No full textAssessment and Intervention In Mental Health Services For Children And Adolescents Using The Lausanne Trilogue Play
No full textObjective: A great number of studies have confirmed the value of the Lausanne Trilogue Play (LTP) as a useful tool for identifying the features of triadic interactive competences in early infancy and in childhood. Despite the increase of knowledge in this field, few studies applied the LTP to clinical samples and in scholar age and adolescence, in order to investigate the possible link between the quality of family interactions and child’s or adolescent’s psychopathological functioning. Results from few researches in this domain are limited due to the small size of the studied samples and do not allow generalizations. For this reason, furthers studies need to be increase, with a larger number of participants, in order to contribute to a general reflection on the use of the LTP in the child or adolescent assessment. The aims of the research were: (i) to use the LTP with a clinical sample of families, with children in scholar age and adolescents, in order to increase knowledge on psychometric properties of the procedure, when used to observe family interactions in clinical groups; (ii) to explore the value of LTP as a discriminating tool for dysfunctional interactions, compared to Child Behavior Check List scores of children and adolescents; (iii) to investigate the LTP as a predictive tool for therapeutic indication in Infant Mental Health Services, compared to the indication of clinicians who have conducted the diagnostic assessment. Method: The sample consisted of 102 children and adolescents (M=12,9 yrs; SD=3.25), with their parents referred to the Mental Health Public Service of Padua, Veneto, Italy) in which they turn for psychological problem of their child/ adolescent. Results: Globally the LTP instrument showed good internal validity, in line with previous studies. A negative correlation between CBCL scores and LTP total score has been found, suggesting that families, whose children showed higher levels of disease and particularly externalizing behavioral problems, are more likely to experience low quality of family interactions. Conclusions: The literature on the LTP suggests the tool to be discriminant with respect to families with difficulties and families with severe psychopathology. This study confirms the possibility to use it as a valid support in the diagnostic assessment and it supports their application for therapeutic planning with clinical families
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