Parents and Toddlers in Groups

Marie Zaphiriou Woods, F. Inst. Psychoanal., is a child psychotherapist and psychoanalyst working with children, adolescents and adults. She was the psychoanalytic consultant and then manager of the Anna Freud Centre Parent-Toddler Group Service, London, UK, from 1999-2008. She teaches and supervises for a number of training schools and is a training analyst for the British Association of Psychotherapists.

This book explores how psychoanalytic principles can be applied when working with parents and toddlers in groups. It discusses how these parent-toddler groups can be an effective medium for early intervention during a period which is critical for the negotiation of a child's central emotional issues.

Acknowledgements. Foreword. Introduction. Part I: The Anna Freud Centre Parent-Toddler Groups. Pretorius, A Historical Background of the Anna Freud Centre Parent-Toddler Groups and the Use of Observation to Study Child Development. Woods, Normal Toddler Development: Excursions and Returns. Woods, The Anna Freud Centre Approach to Running a Parent-Toddler Group. Stoker, The Role of Play. Plagerson, Normally Difficult and Difficult Normality. A Toddler Observation Paper. Pretorius, Wallace, Being Seen to Be Able: The Relationship Between a Partially Sighted Father and His Daughters Born with Floppy Baby Syndrome. Part II: Adaptations and Applications of the Anna Freud Centre Model. Stoker, Difference and Disability: Experiences in a Specialist Toddler Group. Bennett, Running a Toddler Group on a Council Housing Estate; Invisibility, Intrusion, Dislocation and the Importance of Boundaries. Pluckrose, Building a Toddler Group in a Hostel for Homeless Families: An Iterative Technique. Martínez del Solar, Reaching Out to Vulnerable Parents and Toddlers: Establishing a Parent-Toddler Group in a Deprived Area of South London. Ivanova, Vasilyeva, Integrating Parents and Toddlers with Special Needs: Parent-Toddler Groups in St. Petersburg. Navridi, Integration, Sharing and Separation: Introducing the Concept of Toddlers and Toddler Groups in Greece. Barrantes and Piazzon, Finding Our Own Path: Engaging Working Parents in a Toddler Group in Peru. Part III: Research and Evaluation. Asquith, Introduction. Kitson, Midgley, A Qualitative Study of the Experience of Parents Attending a Psychoanalytic Parent-Toddler Group. Rivera, Asquith, Prützel-Thomas, Thinking About My Toddler: Can a Psychoanalytic Toddler Group Enhance Reflective Functioning Capacities in Parents? Holmes,Prützel-Thomas, Asquith, Snack Time at an Anna Freud Centre Parent-Toddler Group: Microanalysis of Social Eating in Toddlerhood. Target, Allison, Conclusion. Appendix.