This paper outlines a model of attachment-centered group interventions to enhance caregiving among parents suffering from early trauma and/or social hardship. Groups are understood as an essential source of experiences that may restore traumatized adults’ relational security, and enhance their parenting capacities, in face of biographical and contextual factors that compromise caregiving. The model is especially suited for intervention within social service/child protection contexts and with families that struggle to establish trusting alliances with professionals and institutions. Proposed intervention strategies are oriented toward making the group function as an attachment figure that meets parents’ attachment and exploration needs and enhances parental sensitivity. Group therapists facilitate two sets of group processes: on the one hand, a sense of togetherness, emotional containment, protection and comfort (related to attachment needs); on the other hand, the development of parental mentalization, the revision of parental representations of the child, and the consolidation of parenting competence (related to exploration needs). A theoretical rationale for working with parent groups from an attachment-centered perspective, the basic intervention principles and specific strategies of the model are presented and illustrated.

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加强受创伤家庭的照料：以依恋为中心的方法与父母团体合作

本文概述了一个以依恋为中心的团体干预模型，以加强对遭受早期创伤和/或社会困难的父母的照顾。面对影响照护的传记和背景因素，团体被认为是一种重要的经验来源，可以恢复受创伤的成年人的关系安全感，并提高他们的养育能力。该模型特别适用于社会服务/儿童保护环境中的干预，以及努力与专业人士和机构建立信任联盟的家庭。所提出的干预策略旨在使小组作为一个依恋对象发挥作用，以满足父母的依恋和探索需求，并提高父母的敏感性。团体治疗师促进两组团体过程：一方面，团结、情感包容、保护和舒适（与依恋需求有关）；另一方面，父母心智化的发展，父母对孩子的表征的修正，以及养育能力的巩固（与探索需求有关）。从以依恋为中心的角度与家长团体合作的理论原理，该模型的基本干预原则和具体策略进行了介绍和说明。