Does Training in the Circle of Security Framework Increase Relational Understanding in Infant/Child and Family Workers

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11277112
AutoresChristopher Mcmahon (0000-0002-3753-006X, Macquarie University, autor de correspondencia), Catherine Mcmahon (0000-0001-7312-6593, Macquarie University), Anna Huber (0000-0002-5475-9528, Macquarie University), Jane Kohlhoff (0000-0001-6202-6685, University of New South Wales Sydney, and Karitane New SouthWales), Anna‐Lisa Camberis (Macquarie University)
Año2017
Volumen38
Número5
Páginas658-668
Fecha de publicación2017-09-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInfant Mental Health Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0163-9641 • E-ISSN: 1097-0355
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/imhj.21661
PMID28834602
OpenAlexW2745526130
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas18

This article evaluated whether attendance at Circle of Security training workshops resulted in attendees showing greater empathy and attachment‐related knowledge and understanding, and fewer judgmental responses to viewing a stressful parent–child interaction. Participants were 202 practitioners who attended and completed a 2‐day ( n = 70), 4‐day ( n = 105), or 10‐day ( n = 27) COS training workshop in Australia or New Zealand in 2015. In a pre/post design, participant reactions to a video clip of a challenging parent–child interaction were coded for empathic, judgmental, or attachment‐focused language. Attachment understanding was coded in response to questions about the greatest challenge that the dyad faced. In all training conditions, participants provided significantly more attachment‐focused descriptors and showed significantly greater attachment understanding after training, but significantly fewer empathic descriptors. While participants at the longer workshops provided significantly fewer judgmental/critical descriptors, there was no change for those attending the 2‐day workshop. Irrespective of workshop duration or professional background, participants took a more relational perspective on the vignette after the training workshops. More detailed research is required to establish the extent to which this increased knowledge and understanding is retained and integrated into infant mental health practice with parents and young children

Attachment theory · Attendance · Bespoke · Developmental psychology · Dyad · Empathy · Infant mental health · Mental health · Perspective-taking · Psychotherapist · Vignette · Applied Psychology · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Child Abuse and Trauma · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Psychology · Social Psychology