ABSTRACT

In Chapter 11, “Parent–infant psychotherapy: RCTs and follow-up studies”, the efficacy of these methods as investigated in various RCTs is submitted, compared, and discussed. The author not only provides their various results but also discusses how future studies should improve their design. This will contribute to making these upcoming studies more valid and reliable, to the benefit of the clinical field. The chapter also submits a summary of one of the few follow-up studies of psychodynamic parent–infant therapy, which followed the children up to 4½ years of age. Some results point to long-term effects of such therapies with infants and mothers in distress.