Department of Counselor Education, Counseling Psychology, and Rehabilitation Services, Pennsylvania State University.
McLaren Family Medicine Residency Program.
J Couns Psychol. 2010 Jul;57(3):304-316. doi: 10.1037/a0020030.
This set of studies was designed to examine the relational underpinnings of child abuse potential in a sample of 51 urban families. In Study 1, lower maternal differentiation of self-most notably, greater emotional reactivity and greater emotional cutoff-along with self-attacking introjects, together distinguished mothers at higher risk (vs. lower risk) for child maltreatment (CM). In Study 2, patterns of interactive rupture and repair were examined in a subsample of n = 15 families and found to vary as a function of risk for CM. Specifically, SASB coding (Benjamin, 1996, 2003) of mother-children interactions during two moderately stressful lab tasks revealed higher rates of interactive mismatch and mother-initiated ruptures, and fewer successful repairs in families at higher-risk-for-CM, relative to families at lower-risk. Implications for counseling and directions for further translational research are discussed.
这组研究旨在考察 51 个城市家庭样本中儿童虐待倾向的关系基础。在研究 1 中，较低的母亲自我分化——尤其是更大的情绪反应性和更大的情绪阻断——以及自我攻击的内射，共同区分了处于更高（而非更低）儿童虐待风险的母亲。在研究 2 中，对 n = 15 个家庭的亚样本中交互破裂和修复的模式进行了考察，结果发现它们因儿童虐待风险而有所不同。具体来说，在两个中等压力的实验室任务中，对母亲-儿童互动进行的 SASB 编码（本杰明，1996 年，2003 年）显示，在高风险儿童虐待家庭中，交互不匹配和母亲发起的破裂的发生率更高，成功修复的次数更少，而在低风险儿童虐待家庭中则相反。讨论了对咨询的启示和进一步转化研究的方向。
