Child–Parent Psychotherapy with Infants Hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings(2019)
Abstract
Hospitalization in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is a stressful and potentially traumatic experience for infants as well as their parents. The highly specialized medical environment can threaten the development of a nurturing and secure caregiving relationship and potentially derail an infant’s development. Well-timed, dose-specific interventions that include an infant mental health approach can buffer the impact of medical traumatic stress and separations and support the attachment relationship. Many psychological interventions in the NICU setting focus on either the parent’s mental health or the infant’s neurodevelopmental functioning. An alternative approach is to implement a relationship-based, dyadic intervention model that focuses on the developing parent–infant relationship. Child–parent psychotherapy (CPP) is an evidence-based trauma-informed dyadic intervention model for infants and young children who have experienced a traumatic event. This article describes the adaptation of CPP for the NICU environment.
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Key words
Child–parent psychotherapy,Infant mental health,Neonatal intensive care unit,Pediatric medical traumatic stress,Pediatric psychology,Trauma-informed care
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