Mentalization in DIR/Floortime: Facilitating reflective functioning in parents of children with developmental challenges.
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文摘
By highlighting the profound link between Greenspan and Wieder's (2006) DIR/Floortime and Fonagy et al.'s (2002) mentalization theory, this comprehensive literature review makes more evident: 1) the wider applicability of DIR/Floortime to a range of conditions, not limited to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)； 2) that parents are the primary mutative agent in their child's life； 3) that ASD symptomology creates obstacles to the parents' capacity to construct optimal social-emotional learning environments, which undermines parents' unique growth promoting role； 4) parental trauma functions as a barrier to the implementation of DIR/Floortime； and lastly 5) the cultivation of parental mentalization, through attachment-based interventions, must be a central component of DIR/Floortime treatment. Additionally, this dissertation includes a summary of findings from interviews with five professionals with expertise in DIR/Floortime or mentalization-based therapy and who carefully utilize parent work in their clinical practice with children.