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Parental Couple (parental + couple)
Selected AbstractsFathers and families: Locating the ghost in the nurseryINFANT MENTAL HEALTH JOURNAL, Issue 5 2004Paul Barrows Infant mental-health clinicians and researchers have tended to focus particularly on the mother,infant dyad and, in Fraiberg's terms, on the "ghosts" that the mother brings to the nursery. This article begins by reiterating the case for paying as much attention to the "ghosts" that the father brings if we are to maximize our therapeutic impact. It is argued further, however, that over and above the father's individual role, what is more critical for the developing infant's future mental health is the nature of the parental couple that he/she encounters. That is, it is the relationship between the parents and their interactions that creates the emotional climate into which the infant is born and that determines the nature of the "internal" parental couple that they in turn will acquire. It is argued that the couple's relationship therefore needs to be the primary focus for our therapeutic interventions. Clinical material is presented to illustrate these points. [source] Extending fairbairn and Sutherland's socio-intrapsychic model to assessment and treatment of a stepfamilyINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDIES, Issue 3 2004Carl Bagnini Abstract The author describes an unusual adaptation of object relations family therapy tailored to the requirements of symptomatic adult children, their long-divorced parents and their stepfamilies. He worked with the children on understanding their disturbed relationship as an identification with the pre-divorce parental couple. He brought the divorced couple together for sessions to rework their break-up and repair trauma to their children. He had sessions with the current stepfamily members. The design of the treatment called for moving gradually and thoroughly, back and forth, from past to present, interpersonal to intrapsychic, individual to group, and family to stepfamily. Copyright © 2004 Whurr Publishers Ltd. [source] Grievance: The underlying oedipal configurationTHE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS, Issue 4 2008Michael Feldman In this paper the author describes some of the clinical features encountered in patients who seem to ,nurture' a persistent grievance. He gives clinical examples, and discusses the nature of the powerful underlying dynamics. He suggests that contained within the patient's grievance is a set of phantasies that constitute the expression of his fear and hatred of reality, particularly the reality of the oedipal situation, the child's relationship to the creative parental couple, which Money-Kyrle (1968, 1971) has characterised as an essential element of ,the facts of life'. The phantasies the patient has evolved serve to protect him from envy and jealousy, anxiety and guilt. The primitive oedipal phantasies on which the grievance rests also contribute to the excitement and gratification that are characteristic of the grievance. The analysis of the underlying state of mind helps to account for the persistent grip the grievance has on the patient, and the way this interferes with development. [source] Assessing the spawning season in common dentex (Dentex dentex) using microsatellitesAQUACULTURE RESEARCH, Issue 12 2008Yaisel J Borrell Abstract A set of five variable microsatellite markers was used for the genetic characterization of two common dentex (Dentex dentex) broodstocks from an experimental hatchery and for the screening of the egg batches spawned during the complete spawn season in 2006. After parentage assignment, simulations were performed for the hatchery 1 broodstocks; the microsatellite set correctly assigned over 93% of descendants to parents when one parent was known and 80% when neither parent was known. Of the 261 eggs that the DNA was correctly amplified from, 254 were successfully assigned to a parental couple. More than one female or male took part (at the same point in time) in the spawning season. However, we observed ,dominant' individuals that produced high proportions of the descendants (unequal reproductive success) in all the sampling periods, although the contributions of these dominant individuals could change over time. This phenomenon reduces the effective breeding numbers, and could lead to inbreeding if this factor is not taken into account when the next parental generation is obtained. This factor should also be considered in aquaculture selection programmes because the dominant breeders may not be the most interesting individuals for commercial or productive schemes. [source] Parental capacities for triadic relationships during pregnancy: Early predictors of children's behavioral and representational functioning at preschool ageINFANT MENTAL HEALTH JOURNAL, Issue 1 2005Kai von Klitzing This study examines associations between parental capacities for triadic (mother,father,child) relationships, assessed prenatally, and the representational and behavioral functioning of their offspring at preschool age. Thirty-eight parental couples were given an intensive psychodynamic interview during their first pregnancy to assess how they anticipated their future parenthood and their relationships as threesomes (mother,father,child). The capacity for triadic relationships ("triadic capacity") was defined as the capacity of fathers and mothers to anticipate their family relationships without excluding either themselves or their partners from the relationship with the infant. Four years later, the representational and behavioral functioning of their children were assessed in depth using child narrative interviews and parental behavior ratings. The coherence of the children's narratives and the number of positive themes they expressed were significantly negatively correlated with the number of behavioral problems. In the longitudinal analyses, there were significant positive correlations between the parental triadic capacities and the coherence/number of positive themes in the children's narratives whereas parental triadic capacities showed a significant negative correlation with the number of the children's externalizing problems. The significance of triadic relational family processes for the development of children's representational world and behavioral functioning is discussed. ©2005 Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health. [source] | ||||||||||