Child Psychology and Parenting Interventions
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2022) | Viewed by 40875
Special Issue Editors
Interests: somatization; psychodiagnostic consultation children-parents; stress; prematurity; childhood eating and evacuation disorders; psychological intervention methods: The Focal Play Therapy and The Drawn Stories Technique
Interests: infant development and perinatal psychopathology; pediatric hospitalization; preterm birth and parenting; early parent-infant interactions
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is widely recognized that child psychology represents a relevant topic, with repercussions on all subsequent development up to adulthood. As well-known, child’s development and mental health are strictly related to the quality of the care and the relationship with child parents. For this reason, interventions designed to promote the child's mental, emotional and social development must involve the parent, in order to guarantee a mutual understanding of the child's problems, but also because the therapeutic alliance with parents is a crucial component of a successful intervention process.
Until now, studies on parenting interventions considered theoretical (i.e. problem type, child age, parent sex) and methodological (alliance and outcome reported by the same informant, source and timing of alliance, and outcome assessment) factors that may influence the parent-therapist alliance and therapeutic outcome association. Nevertheless, results are often contradictory findings, underlining the need for future research to understand the specific conditions in which the parenting intervention can predict clinical outcomes and/or therapeutic alliance.
This Special Issue is aimed to deepen the knowledge on child psychology and parenting intervention. We will include empirical research, theoretical papers, and clinical cases. We are especially interested in papers that explore a new approach aimed to improve child psychology in high-risk context and papers that investigate new intervention models that can include caregivers as well as children.
Prof. Dr. Elena Trombini
Dr. Erica Neri
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- child psychology
- parenting intervention
- developmental psychopathology
- infant mental health
- parent-child therapy
- therapeutic alliance