Interfacing Infant Mental Health Knowledge

Perspectives of South African Supervisors Supporting Lay Mother–infant Home Visitors

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11276562
AutoresKatherine Bain (0000-0002-6635-1335, University of the Witwatersrand South Africa, autor correspondente), Tessa Baradon (0000-0001-9763-3194, Anna Freud Centre United Kingdom and University of the Witwatersrand South Africa)
Ano2018
Volume39
Fascículo4
Páginas371-384
Data de publicação2018-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInfant Mental Health Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0163-9641 • E-ISSN: 1097-0355
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/imhj.21715
PMID29920708
OpenAlexW2808921701
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas35

This article is part of a project investigating the interfacing of clinically and research‐generated knowledge in the field of infant mental health (IMH) with local cultural models of child care and development. The article explores the experiences and challenges reported by psychology‐trained supervisors in supervision with local, lay, trained home visitors. Supervisors and supervisees were drawn from two early intervention programs which apply relational IMH mental health models in socioeconomically deprived townships in South Africa. Literature that considers supervisors’ experiences of conducting supervision with lay counselors has been limited, and even more so in settings where there are marked cultural and contextual differences between supervisors and supervisees. These differences pose particular challenges regarding the finding of a shared theoretical understanding of the work as well as to the establishment of a secure working alliance. While it was found that psychoanalytic and attachment‐informed theories of infant development are applicable in these South African settings, differences in race, language, education, socioeconomic status, and culture between supervisors and supervisees challenge the supervisor–supervisee relationship and require psychological processing and creative solutions to ensure integrity in the application of the model

Alliance · Infant mental health · Medical education · Mental health · Political science · Psychiatry · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychotherapist · Supervisor · Counseling Practices and Supervision · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Family and Disability Support Research · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology