Parental Reflective Function and Children's Attachment-Based Mental State Talk as Predictors of Outcome in Psychodynamic Child Psychotherapy

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dc.authoridHalfon, Sibel/0000-0001-6171-3010
dc.contributor.authorHalfon, Sibel
dc.contributor.authorBesiroglu, Burcu
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:56:57Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:56:57Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.departmentİstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractMentalization, operationalized as reflective function, is defined as the capacity to understand behavior in terms of mental states. Mentalization can be self-focused (i.e., mentalizing that focuses on one's own thoughts and feelings) or other-focused (i.e., mentalizing that focuses on others' thoughts and feelings). Some studies in adult psychotherapy show the importance of patients' mentalization capacity for treatment outcome; however, this has not yet been investigated in psychodynamic child psychotherapy. This study aimed to investigate whether baseline parental reflective function (PRF) and children's mental state talk (MST) predicted changes in emotional and behavioral problems in psychodynamic child psychotherapy. The sample included 60 Turkish school-age children (M-age = 7.90, SD = 1.35, 43.3% girls) with internalizing (18.3%), externalizing (5%), and comorbid (56.7%) problems, and 20% of the children were in the nonclinical range. The mothers were interviewed using the Parent Development Interview, which was coded for PRF (self- and child-focused). Children were administered an attachment-based story stem task, coded for MST (self- and other-focused). The Brief Problem Monitor was administered every month over the course of treatment for a total of 366 sessions. Multilevel modeling analyses indicated that mothers' child-focused PRF and children's self-focused MST predicted changes in problem behaviors. Parents' mentalization about their children and children's mentalization about their own internal states could be predictors of treatment response in psychodynamic child psychotherapy.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipAmerican Psychoanalytic Association's Fund for Psychoanalytic Research; Scientific and Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) [215 K 180]en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was partially supported by American Psychoanalytic Association's Fund for Psychoanalytic Research. Moreover, the research was partially supported by the Scientific and Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) Grant 215 K 180 in the collection of some pretest measures.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1037/pst0000347
dc.identifier.endpage94en_US
dc.identifier.issn0033-3204
dc.identifier.issn1939-1536
dc.identifier.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.pmid33119373en_US
dc.identifier.startpage81en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000347
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/8921
dc.identifier.volume58en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000641010400007en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ3en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMeden_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAmer Psychological Assoc, Div Psychotherapyen_US
dc.relation.ispartofPsychotherapyen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectParental Reflective Functionen_US
dc.subjectMental State Talken_US
dc.subjectPsychodynamic Child Psychotherapyen_US
dc.subjectEmotional And Behavioral Problemsen_US
dc.subjectUnderstanding Minden_US
dc.subjectInfant Attachmenten_US
dc.subjectMothersen_US
dc.subjectEmotionen_US
dc.subjectLanguageen_US
dc.subjectMentalizationen_US
dc.subjectAssociationsen_US
dc.subjectAdjustmenten_US
dc.subjectPathwaysen_US
dc.subjectBehavioren_US
dc.titleParental Reflective Function and Children's Attachment-Based Mental State Talk as Predictors of Outcome in Psychodynamic Child Psychotherapyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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