Parental Reflective Functioning and Child Psychiatry Service Users: An Exploratory Study
Urfer, Fanny-Maude
Parental Reflective Functioning and Child Psychiatry Service Users: An Exploratory Study - 2015.
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Reflective functioning (RF) refers to the capacity to perceive and interpret our and others’ behaviors in terms of mental states. It has been identified as a variable related to the development of psychopathology in a population of children receiving psychiatric services. Since the development of RF is highly influenced by the parent-child relationship, this study aims to explore RF in thirteen parents of children receiving psychiatric services. A semi-structured interview (Parent Development Interview—Revised; PDI-R) was analyzed in light of two systems, one aiming to measure the PRF level (Slade, et al., 2005) and the other assessing the parents’ affective experience regarding their parent-child relationship (Henderson, Steele and Hillman, 2007). Results highlight a lower PRF in the sample assessed than what would be expected in the general population, as well as differences among mothers versus fathers and parents presenting higher versus lower RF.
Parental Reflective Functioning and Child Psychiatry Service Users: An Exploratory Study - 2015.
64
Reflective functioning (RF) refers to the capacity to perceive and interpret our and others’ behaviors in terms of mental states. It has been identified as a variable related to the development of psychopathology in a population of children receiving psychiatric services. Since the development of RF is highly influenced by the parent-child relationship, this study aims to explore RF in thirteen parents of children receiving psychiatric services. A semi-structured interview (Parent Development Interview—Revised; PDI-R) was analyzed in light of two systems, one aiming to measure the PRF level (Slade, et al., 2005) and the other assessing the parents’ affective experience regarding their parent-child relationship (Henderson, Steele and Hillman, 2007). Results highlight a lower PRF in the sample assessed than what would be expected in the general population, as well as differences among mothers versus fathers and parents presenting higher versus lower RF.
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