ABSTRACT

Some brief psychotherapies aim to increase parental sensitivity in the post-adoption period. However, there is a lack of systemic approaches to evaluate the psychotherapeutic process. The current study aimed to understand how parental representations changed during ten psychotherapy sessions of a brief intervention to promote parental sensitivity during the post-adoption period. A couple (35-year-old mother and 39-year-old father) who were having severe difficulties bonding with their recently adopted children (three, five, and eight years old boys) participated in the study. The construct ‘sensitivity’ was used to analyze the psychotherapy process using a theme analysis applied to the psychotherapy transcriptions. The frequency of the deductive themes and the construction of new ones (inductive) through sessions guided the analyses. Initially, parents interpreted their children’s intentions negatively, which caused a chain of hostilities in the relationship. Throughout the intervention, parents gradually became better able to represent their children in a more complex way and understand how their children communicate their needs. Along with the sensitivity improvements noted, the couple reported an improvement in the parent-child bond, and adoption breakdown was no longer a topic of the sessions as it was in the beginning.

摘要

一些简短的心理治疗旨在提高收养后父母的敏感性。然而，缺乏评估心理治疗过程的系统方法。目前的研究旨在了解在十次简短干预的心理治疗期间，父母的表征如何变化，以提高收养后父母的敏感性。一对夫妇（35 岁的母亲和 39 岁的父亲）与他们最近收养的孩子（三岁、五岁和八岁的男孩）有严重的交往困难，他们参与了这项研究。构建“敏感性”用于使用应用于心理治疗转录的主题分析来分析心理治疗过程。演绎主题的频率和通过会话构建新主题（归纳）指导了分析。最初，父母对孩子的意图有负面的解释，这导致了关系中的一连串敌对情绪。在整个干预过程中，父母逐渐能够更好地以更复杂的方式代表他们的孩子，并了解他们的孩子如何传达他们的需求。除了注意到的敏感性提高外，这对夫妇报告说亲子关系有所改善，收养问题不再像开始时那样成为会议的主题。