Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting: Keeping the Child’s Mind in Mind

Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting: Keeping the Child’s Mind in Mind describes the Center for Reflective Parenting and techniques developed at the Center for helping parents to be able to understand and reflect on their children’s emotional states, as a way of helping them to be more effective parents. Discussion of neurobiological correlates of ＂reflective parenting,＂ and of similar techniques used at the Pacella Child Center and in other settings, places the clinical technique in the context of other work directed at helping parents help their children to grow up emotionally healthy.

Mary Davis, MD, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She has been involved with the Vulnerable Child Study Group since 1995, and became Co-Chair of the Study Group in 2009. M. Hossein Etezady, MD, is a child psychoanalyst in private practice in Paoli, Pennsylvania. He has worked in multiple settings, including in-patient, outpatient, and consultation services in child and adolescent psychiatry as well as in psychiatry. For over thirty years he has served as the moderator and coordinator, has been a contributor, and is currently serving as the senior co-chair of the Vulnerable Child Discussion Group of the American Psychoanalytic Association and The Association for Child Psychoanalysis.