Naslov
Should parent-child therapy include teachers to treat depressed preschoolers when caregiver shows affective disorders?

Autori
Feresin, Catina ; Močinić, Snježana ; Tatković, Nevenka

Izvornik
Školski vjesnik : časopis za pedagoška i školska pitanja (0037-654X) Vol. 62 (2013), Br. 1; 75-84

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, pregledni rad, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
preschoolers; depressive disorders; caregiver; role of the teacher; Parent Child Interaction Therapy and Emotion Development Therapy combined; f.M.R.I. Study

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 difficult procedure to apply Parent Child Interaction Therapy and Emotion Development Therapy combined, if the caregiver feels depressed himself/herself (see Luby, 2009). Because of this reason, the main aim of this work is to propose a four people relationship instead of the usual three people in the course of the mentioned therapy: 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: therefore, they are in an unique position to give an significant emotional support both to caregivers as to children themselves. To develop our project, a further research is needed which directly analyses depressed preschoolers' brain function by a 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 et al., 2011 ; Suzuki et al., 2012). If our idea of using teachers supporting the caregiver is correct, we should find 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 fight depression. Of course, the modification of Parent Child Interaction Therapy and Emotion Development Therapy combined and the f.M.R.I. study are just some proposals and they might be subject of future works.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Pedagogija

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