The issues of the application of parent-infant psychotherapy to infants, mothers and families in Japan
Project/Area Number |
06670827
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Pediatrics
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Research Institution | Keio University |
Principal Investigator |
WATANABE Hisao Department of pediatrics, Keio University, Assistant Professor, 医学部, 講師 (00255572)
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Project Period (FY) |
1994 – 1996
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Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 1996)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥2,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000)
Fiscal Year 1996: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1995: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1994: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
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Keywords | infant mental health / parent-infant psychotherapy / relationship disorder / cultural difference / ghosts in the nursery / preformed transference / fantasmatic interaction / intergenerational transmission / 親-乳幼児精神療法 / 母乳幼児相互作用 / 関係性障害 / 乳幼児精神医学 / 世代間伝達 / 国際的比較 / 親乳幼児精神療法 / 親乳幼児相互作用 / 親乳幼児精神保健 |
Research Abstract |
Japan is witnessing a considerable rise in the number of children presenting with psychosocial disorders with increasingly complex pictures and a younger onset age. As a measure to prevent such emergence of psychopathology, a new method of parent-infant psychotherapy devised in the west has been applied with a view to studying its efficacy for the Japanese cases. The parent-infant psychotherapy regards symptoms in the infant as a manifestation of its relationship disturbance with the caregiver. In this approach the therapist intervenes with problematic interaction between the infant and the parent through close participant observation. Where the parent's conflicts are seen to be projected onto the infant it can be intervened on the spot thus preventing the transmission of conflicts down the generation. This research has been conducted to clarify its efficacy for Japanese cases with additional comparison with the west. 30 cases of infants under 3 and their parents with psychological sym
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ptoms were divided into 4 groups: 9 cases of intact infants and mothers, 11 cases of infants with mothers with psychiatric diagnoses, 8 cases of neurodevelopmentally at-risk infants with intact mothers, and 2 cases of neurodevelopmentally at-risk infants with mothers with psychiatric diagnoses. All cases revealed the infant's symptoms to be largely affected by the mother's tension, while effective approaches differed for each group. For parents with psychiatric diagnosed, sensitive in-depth exploration of early relationships with their family along with images of their parents proved effective in improving their relationship with the infant. 5 videotaped cases were studied in detail in comparison with cases in the west. The Japanese mothers showed heightened tension at the first encounter of the therapeutic relation, making empathic understanding crucial for subsequent interaction. Non-verbal interaction of the therapist combined with tacit understanding played a major role in successful therapeutic process. Less
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