Video Interaction Guidance - Lecture and Discussion

Developmental psychologists such as Colwyn Trevarthen have highlighted the magic dance that infants and parents engage in from the first days of life and of how the attunement and emotionally rewarding exchanges which follow support the formation of intimate bonds between them. Practitioners working with troubled parent-child relationships often notice the absence of this basic form of communication between them and the self-perpetuating negative interactions which often characterise their relationships.

Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) developed as an intervention to help parents restore their relationships with their children in situations where communication had broken down. Initially used by Harrie Biemans over 20 years ago working with severely disrupted relationships between adolescents and their parents in the Netherlands, Video Interaction Guidance has since been used with diverse populations of parents and children, by at least 4000 practitioners in over 15 countries. In the UK there are 60 trained supervisors and 800 professionals from health, social work and education using VIG in a wide range of situations.

Fee £8.00 (including vat)

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