Pregledni rad
Should Parent-child Therapy Include Teachers to Treat Depressed Preschoolers When caregiver Shows Affective Disorders?
Catina Feresin
; Odsjek za medicinu, Sveučilište u Padovi, Italija
Snježana Močinić
orcid.org/0000-0002-6230-2480
; Odsjek za učiteljski studij, Sveučilište u Puli
Nevenka Tatković
; pročelnica Odsjeka za učiteljski studij, Sveučilište u Puli
Sažetak
It is known that a child affected by depressive disorders often has a parent affected by the same illness: because of this, it is a diffi cult procedure to apply Parent Child Interaction Therapy and Emotion Development Therapy combined, if the caregiver feels depressed himself/herself (see: Luby, 2009). Therefore, the main aim of this work is to propose a four people relationship instead of the usual three people relationship, generally present in the course of the mentioned therapy; so we will have: the child, the caregiver, the psychologist and the teacher. Teachers usually spend a lot of time with school or preschool children and with their parents: so they are in a unique position to give a signifi cative emotional support both to caregivers and to children themselves. To develop our project, further research is needed, which directly analyses depressed preschoolers’ brain function by an f. M. R. I. study, comparing the activation of amygdala, hippo-campus and prefrontal cortex and the degree of depression, when children are viewing facial expressions of negative affect (Gaffrey M. S., Luby J. L., Belden A. C., Hirshberg J. S., Barch D. M.., 2011; Suzuki et al., 2012). If our idea of using teachers who support the caregiver is correct, we should fi nd a slight positive correlation, or no correlation at all, between the severity of depression and the activity of cortical and limbic areas when the teacher is present: this hypothetical result should mean that the child is learning how to deal with negative emotions to fi ght depression. Of course, the modifi cation of Parent Child Interaction Therapy and Emotion Development Therapy combined and the f. M. R. I. study are just proposals and they might be subjects of future works.
Ključne riječi
preschoolers; depressive disorders; caregiver; role of the teacher; Parent Child Interaction Therapy and Emotion Development Therapy combined; f. M. R. I. study
Hrčak ID:
99760
URI
Datum izdavanja:
26.3.2013.
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