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Meeting the emotional needs of infants and toddlers in foster care: The collaborative mental health care experience
Author(s) -
Wotherspoon Evelyn,
O'NeillLaberge Marlene,
Pirie June
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
infant mental health journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.693
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1097-0355
pISSN - 0163-9641
DOI - 10.1002/imhj.20185
Subject(s) - foster care , mental health , infant mental health , general partnership , psychology , transactional leadership , competence (human resources) , transactional analysis , perspective (graphical) , nursing , developmental psychology , medicine , psychiatry , psychotherapist , social psychology , finance , artificial intelligence , computer science , economics
This paper describes a partnership between an infant mental health consultation program and child welfare authorities, with a special focus on the use of a consultation model to support infants and toddlers in foster care. The authors describe a model of practice that incorporates the transactional model with a developmental perspective to help foster parents understand and address the emotional needs of these children. The clinical implications section reviews strategies for addressing attachment and relationship disturbances, promoting self‐regulation, and enhancing social competence in infants and young foster children.