The impact of VIG Work - On The Mother's capacity for change

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  The Impact Of VIG Work - on mother's capacity for change. How does Video Interactive Guidance - VIG ameliorates mother's capacity for change

• IRAS ID

  227835

• Contact name

  Renee Thurston

• Contact email

  Renee.Thurston@nelft.nhs.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  Metanoia Institute , Middlesex University

• Duration of Study in the UK

  1 years, 9 months, 7 days

• Research summary

  Perinatal and Parent-Infant Mental Health Service is an outpatient service within NELFT, NHS Foundation Trust, Goodmayes Hospital . It responses to the emotional needs of new mothers and their partners who are having difficulties adjusting to pregnancy or their new baby. The services addresses difficulties such as post-natal depression , sever anxiety or bonding difficulties. Central to this work is the growth of the parent-infant relationship. I work as a Psychotherapist within the Perinatal Service. This psychotherapeutic work enables the pregnant woman and new mother to think about emotional difficulties associated with her pregnancy and relationship with her new baby.
  This study intends to use clinical data from first-time mothers who have been referred to the perinatal service. Clinical sessions for each individual patient take place at regular intervals.
  The objective of this research would be based on the study of careful monitoring of maternal capacity for change as presented in our individual parent/infant sessions. This study aims to evaluate how VIG - Video Interactive Guidance as an integrated method with parent infant psychotherapy can be used effectively to address mother’s difficulties that they bring to their psychotherapy sessions such as developing attended iterations with their infant. A kind of integrated method that aims to ameliorate mother’s capacity for change. My interest in looking into the use of VIG as tool to aid maternal capacity for change has grown out of my work as a Perinatal Psychotherapist in the NELFT Perinatal Mental Health Service. The central to my work is the parent infant relationship. In my work with number of cases where I have integrated VIG into my therapeutic work with mother and young infants the outcomes have been rewarding and have aroused a profound interest in me around the issue of the impact of the use of VIG on the maternal capacity for change.

  In my practice as trained parent-infant psychotherapist, I was very much impressed by the speed some parents, even those with significant mental health problems, when VIG was used ,were able to see themselves as parents in their representations differently and were able ultimately to change their perception of their child. As reported in many other research findings already I was able to note how the use of VIG enables parents to move from a negative representation of their relationship with their child to a more positive and hopeful narrative while decreasing anxiety in the parents. As indicated by Celebi (2013) effective VIG intervention does change the neural pathways and internal representations by creating moments of connectedness which impact on internal chemicals. (Kennedy, 2017 ) (Pardoe, 2016)
  I would like to be able to illustrate how the use of VIG as integrated method with parent infant psychotherapy facilitates mother’s capacity for change

• REC name

  London - Fulham Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  17/LO/1422

• Date of REC Opinion

  27 Oct 2017

• REC opinion

  Unfavourable Opinion