Sentences with phrase «atypical caregiver»

In two recent studies, Benoit et al. 9,10 demonstrated that a brief, focused, behavioural parent training intervention could reduce atypical caregiver behaviours.

Examples of atypical caregiver behaviours include failing to keep a child safe, failing to comfort a distressed child, laughing while the child is distressed, mocking or teasing a distressed child, asking for affection and reassurance from the child, stilling or freezing (i.e., absence of movements and facial expressions for extended periods, as seen in some dissociated states), or threatening to harm.

More research is also needed to determine what intervention techniques are most effective in reducing atypical caregiver behaviours (or other precursors of disorganized child - caregiver attachment) and disorganized child - caregiver attachment.

Benoit discusses the fact that, in an analysis of 15 studies from their 2003 meta - analysis, Bakermans - Kranenburg and colleagues concluded that attachment interventions that focus on preventing or reducing disorganized attachment may need to target the reduction of atypical caregiver behaviours.8 Specifically, frightened or frightening caregiver behaviour has been implicated in the etiology of disorganized attachment.

Thus, given current knowledge, one could argue that an attachment - based intervention that targets caregiver behaviour should focus both on improving caregiver sensitivity (to promote secure attachment and the associated positive socio - emotional outcomes) and on reducing and / or eliminating atypical caregiver behaviours, a known precursor of disorganized attachment7 (to prevent or reduce disorganized attachment and associated negative outcomes).

Recent research findings suggest that a focus on reducing atypical caregiver behaviours might be a promising direction to reduce disorganized child - caregiver attachment.

Nevertheless, interventions should not only focus on increasing parental sensitivity but also on decreasing or eliminating atypical caregiver behaviours.

Benoit's own study, which demonstrated the effects of a brief, focused, behavioural parent training intervention in reducing atypical caregiver behaviours, is a first example of much needed studies designed to reduce frightening / frightened or atypical parental behaviours.

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Disorganised attachment occurs when children are frightened of the caregiver and have been exposed to a range of anomalous, atypical parent - infant interactions (Madigan 2006); and disorganisation is associated with predictors of later psychopathology, including externalising (Fearon 2010), and personality disorders (Steele 2010).

When aggressive behaviours interfere with a child's developmental functioning to the degree that he or she is asked to leave a preschool, is being aggressive towards caregivers, or is not able to maintain a prosocial relationship with a peer, there appears to be a growing consensus that such behaviours should be deemed atypical.