Children living in institutional care: How can mentalization-based interventions improve their perspective-taking and conflict resolution skills?
Introduction Trauma, stress, and attachment problems are negatively related to the development of mentalization. Children raised in institutional care are more exposed to these difficulties, therefore the development of population-specific interventions that aim to improve mentalization skills woul...
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Introduction
Trauma, stress, and attachment problems are negatively related to the development of mentalization. Children raised in institutional care are more exposed to these difficulties, therefore the development of population-specific interventions that aim to improve mentalization skills would be highly desirable.
Objectives
Our goal is to develop mentalization-based intervention programs for specific age groups (9-13 years, 14-18 years, and adult staff members of institutional care centers) - that support children’s and adolescents’ social functioning and conflict resolution skills.
Methods
The mentalization-based intervention targeting institutional care staff was launched first. Due to the pandemic, this intervention was executed online with two intervention (N = 17) and two passive control (N = 15) groups. Before and after the intervention, participants completed a demographic questionnaire, the Parenting Sense of Competence Scale, the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire, the Mini Oldenburg Burnout Inventory, The Strengths, and Difficulties Questionnaire, and the Ways of Coping Questionnaire.
Results
The intervention protocol and our results will be shown at the conference. There was no significant difference between the two intervention and two passive control groups in the demographic features. Mentalization uncertainty and burnout was positively related(r
s(23) = .42, p = .034), while mentalization uncertainty and parental competence was negatively associated (r
s(23) = - .41, p = .041).
Conclusions
The intervention program will be fine-tuned and optimized based on the results of the pilot study. In the next interventions, we plan to focus on the issues that the staff perceived as most difficult and to conduct interventions among the children.
Disclosure
No significant relationships.
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| spelling | doaj.art-0775ae5447014410a7925aad3d9d63802023-11-17T05:06:25ZengCambridge University PressEuropean Psychiatry0924-93381778-35852022-06-0165S688S68810.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.1772Children living in institutional care: How can mentalization-based interventions improve their perspective-taking and conflict resolution skills?B. Szabó0E. Nagy1A. Békefi2J. Futó3Eötvös Loránd University, Department Of Developmental And Clinical Child Psychology, Budapest, HungaryEötvös Loránd University, Department Of Developmental And Clinical Child Psychology, Budapest, HungaryEötvös Loránd University, Department Of Developmental And Clinical Child Psychology, Budapest, HungaryEötvös Loránd University, Department Of Developmental And Clinical Child Psychology, Budapest, Hungary Introduction Trauma, stress, and attachment problems are negatively related to the development of mentalization. Children raised in institutional care are more exposed to these difficulties, therefore the development of population-specific interventions that aim to improve mentalization skills would be highly desirable. Objectives Our goal is to develop mentalization-based intervention programs for specific age groups (9-13 years, 14-18 years, and adult staff members of institutional care centers) - that support children’s and adolescents’ social functioning and conflict resolution skills. Methods The mentalization-based intervention targeting institutional care staff was launched first. Due to the pandemic, this intervention was executed online with two intervention (N = 17) and two passive control (N = 15) groups. Before and after the intervention, participants completed a demographic questionnaire, the Parenting Sense of Competence Scale, the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire, the Mini Oldenburg Burnout Inventory, The Strengths, and Difficulties Questionnaire, and the Ways of Coping Questionnaire. Results The intervention protocol and our results will be shown at the conference. There was no significant difference between the two intervention and two passive control groups in the demographic features. Mentalization uncertainty and burnout was positively related(r s(23) = .42, p = .034), while mentalization uncertainty and parental competence was negatively associated (r s(23) = - .41, p = .041). Conclusions The intervention program will be fine-tuned and optimized based on the results of the pilot study. In the next interventions, we plan to focus on the issues that the staff perceived as most difficult and to conduct interventions among the children. Disclosure No significant relationships. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0924933822017722/type/journal_articleinterventioninstitutional careChildrenmentalization |
| spellingShingle | B. Szabó E. Nagy A. Békefi J. Futó Children living in institutional care: How can mentalization-based interventions improve their perspective-taking and conflict resolution skills? European Psychiatry intervention institutional care Children mentalization |
| title | Children living in institutional care: How can mentalization-based interventions improve their perspective-taking and conflict resolution skills? |
| title_full | Children living in institutional care: How can mentalization-based interventions improve their perspective-taking and conflict resolution skills? |
| title_fullStr | Children living in institutional care: How can mentalization-based interventions improve their perspective-taking and conflict resolution skills? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Children living in institutional care: How can mentalization-based interventions improve their perspective-taking and conflict resolution skills? |
| title_short | Children living in institutional care: How can mentalization-based interventions improve their perspective-taking and conflict resolution skills? |
| title_sort | children living in institutional care how can mentalization based interventions improve their perspective taking and conflict resolution skills |
| topic | intervention institutional care Children mentalization |
| url | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0924933822017722/type/journal_article |
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