Subproject
2: Parental Training
Mentalization-based
parental training for mentally ill parents
Locations:
Heidelberg ,
Berlin,
According to scientific and clinical reports, parents who
suffer from mental illness or who have been exposed to serious
stress and adverse experiences in their childhood often find it
more difficult to respond adequately to their child's emotional
needs compared to parents without such stress. The aim of this
subproject 2 is therefore to investigate the effectiveness of two
programs designed to strengthen parental relationship behavior.
Both programs are offered at the Department of General Psychiatry
of the Heidelberg University Hospital and at the Charité
Psychiatric University Clinic at the St. Hedwig Hospital in
Berlin. One program comprises a 12-hour mentalization-based
parental counselling (MB-PC) in individual and group format, which
takes about 6 weeks. Mentalization refers to the ability to
understand the wishes, motives, feelings and intentions behind the
behavior of others and oneself. The MB-PC program therefore aims
to strengthen the parental mentalization with regard to the
interaction with their child, e.g. to understand clues, to be able
to better classify possible feelings and child's motives when it
shows difficult behavior and to react to them adequately.
The second program that we investigate is an intensive course on
parenting skills, which will be offered in a 90-minute
psychoeducative workshop in the group format. The focus is to
obtain information on favorable parenting behavior that can
strengthen the relationship between parents and child, and on how
to deal with parental stress. Participants will also be given the
opportunity to exchange information and experiences with each
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