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Reflective Parenting is a theory of parenting developed from the work of psychoanalyst Peter Fonagy and his colleagues at the Tavistock Clinic in London. Fonagy introduced the concept of “reflective functioning”, which is defined as the ability to imagine mental states in self and others. Through this capacity for reflection, we develop the ability to understand our own behavioral responses and the responses of others as a meaningful attempt to communicate those inner mental states. As Fonagy describes it, “reflective function is the… uniquely human capacity to make sense of each other”.[1]
Numerous researchers have studied how reflective functioning works in the parent-child relationship.[citation needed] They have learned that a mother with high reflective functioning has the ability to see her child as a separate, autonomous individual with “a mind of his own.” As a result, she attributes thoughts, feelings, intentionality and desires to her child, and can recognize her own thoughts, feelings, intentions and desires. This research has demonstrated that when a parent has this capacity, it 1) strengthens the parent-child relationship[2] 2) teaches the child how to understand and regulate his behavior, and 3) supports cognitive development.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
Arietta Slade and her colleagues at Yale Child Study Center, John Grienenberger and his team at the Wright Institute in Los Angeles, Daniel Schechter and his colleagues at Columbia University and Alicia Lieberman and Patricia Van Horn at UC San Francisco are some of the first researchers and clinicians in the United States to use this research to develop reflective parenting programs and interventions. These programs share a common focus; to develop and enhance parents’ capacity for reflective thinking. They teach parents to understand and respond to a child’s motivations instead of her actions, in the belief that reflection is more productive for healthy family relationships than addressing specific actions.
^Fonagy, P., Gergely, G., Jurist, E., Target, M. (2002). Affect Regulation, Mentalization and the Development of the Self. New York: Other Press.
^Schechter, D.S., Myers, M.M., Brunelli, S.A., Coates, S.W., Zeanah, C.H., Davies, M., Grienenberger, J.F., Marshall, R.D., McCaw, J.E., Trabka, K.A., & Liebowitz, M.R. (2006). Traumatized mothers can change their minds about their toddlers: Understanding how a novel use of videofeedback supports positive change of maternal attributions. Infant Mental Health Journal, 27(5), 429-448.
^Fonagy, P., Steele, M., Moran, G., Steele, H., & Higgit, A. (1991). The capacity for understanding mental states: the reflective self in parent and child and its significance for security of attachment. Infant Mental Health Journal, 13, 201-218.
^Grienenberger J, Kelly K, Slade, A. (2005). Maternal reflective functioning, mother-infant affective communication and infant attachment: Exploring the link between mental states and observed caregiving behavior in the intergenerational transmission of attachment. Attachment and Human Development 7(3), 299-311.
^Lieberman, A.F. (2004). Child-parent psychotherapy; A relationship –based approach to the treatment of mental health disorders in infancy and early childhood. In A.J. Sameroff, S.C. McDonough, & K.L.
^Lieberman, A. F., Van Horn, P. (2005). Don’t Hit My Mommy!: A Manual for Child-Parent Psychotherapy With Young Witnesses of Family Violence. Washington, DC: Zero to Three Press.
^Meins, E. Fernyhough C., Fradley, E., & Tuckey, M. (2001). Rethinking maternal sensitivity: mother’s comments on infant’s mental processes predict security of attachment at 12 months. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 42, 637-648.
^Slade, A. (2006). Reflective Parenting Programs: Theory and Development. Psychoanalytic Inquiry 26, 640-657.
^Slade, A., Sadler, L., de Dios-Kenn, C., Webb, D., Ezepchick, J., & Mayes, L. (2005). Minding the Baby: A reflective Parenting Program. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 60, 74-100.
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