The Meaning of the Child Interview

This handbook provides an accessible and thought-provoking guide to the Meaning of the Child Interview (MotC), a tool for understanding family relationships. It is edited and written by the MotC's developer, with contributions from leading researchers and practitioners using the MotC in innovative contexts to support families. The MotC uses a semi-structured interview in which parents talk about their child, their relationship with their child, and their parenting. A process of analysis is outlined, including using the method to plan intervention, guide practice, and conduct research. This book offers a practical guide to applying attachment and caregiving research for child welfare and mental health professionals. Prior knowledge is not assumed, and many examples and summaries are used to assist the reader. By focussing upon how parents story their experience, and their child's, in the context of ongoing challenges, this book facilitates practice based on understanding struggling parenting as a relationship situated in adversity, rather than an individual failing, worthy of blame.

Provides an accessible and thought-provoking guide to the Meaning of the Child interview method Gives readers the understanding of caregiving offered by the method Offers a practical guide and shows the method's application in a variety of contexts

Autorentext

Dr Ben Grey is a social worker, psychologist, and Principal Lecturer (for Research) on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, University of Hertfordshire. He has conducted training, worked in, and published widely on attachment, parenting assessment, family court, and child-welfare practice, developing the Meaning of the Child Interview within this practice context.

Klappentext

"The Meaning of the Child Interview is the most important development in the field of attachment and caregiving since the Adult Attachment Interview."

Dr Steve Farnfield, course founder, Attachment Studies postgraduate programme, University of Roehampton, UK, and co-editor of ' The Routledge Handbook of Attachment'

This handbook provides an accessible and thought-provoking guide to the Meaning of the Child Interview (MotC), a tool for understanding family relationships. It is edited and written by the MotC's developer, with contributions from leading researchers and practitioners using the MotC in innovative contexts to support families. The MotC uses a semi-structured interview in which parents talk about their child, their relationship with their child, and their parenting. A process of analysis is outlined, including using the method to plan intervention, guide practice, and conduct research. This book offers a practical guide to applying attachment and caregiving research for child welfare and mental health professionals. Prior knowledge is not assumed, and many examples and summaries are used to assist the reader. By focussing upon how parents story their experience, and their child's, in the context of ongoing challenges, this book facilitates practice based on understanding struggling parenting as a relationship situated in adversity, rather than an individual failing, worthy of blame.

Dr Ben Grey is a social worker, psychologist, and Principal Lecturer (for Research) on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, University of Hertfordshire. He has conducted training, worked in, and published widely on attachment, parenting assessment, family court, and child-welfare practice, developing the Meaning of the Child Interview within this practice context.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Attachment Theory and the Self-Protective Transformation of Meaning. The Caregiving System.- 3. Parental Mentalising Storying the Inner Life of Self and Child.- 4. Exploring the Dimensions of Caregiving The Meaning of the Child Sub-Patterns.- 5. The Meaning of the Child Assessment Process.- 6. How to Code the Meaning of the Child Interview.- 7. The MoTC Assessment Process.- 8. The Case of Leah and Mason.- 9. Attachment-Based Interview Analysis The MoTC and AAI as a Research Method.- 10. The Meaning of the Child in Qualitative Research How to Do Attachment-Informed Qualitative Analysis.- 11. The Meaning of the Child in Families Living with a Child Diagnosed with Autism: Security, Exploration and Therapy.- 12. The Meaning of the Adopted Child The Knowing Me, Knowing You Course (Victoria Barrow and Ben Grey).- 13. The Meaning of the Child in Sensory Attachment Intervention.- 14. The Meaning of the Child in an Irish Context Bringing the Why into Parenting Capacity Assessments.- 15. The Meaning of the Child in Child Welfare: A Case Study of Assessment and Intervention in an Icelandic Context.- 16. The Meaning of the Child Interview So What? Towards a Systemic and Ecological Assessment of Caregiving.