TY - BOOK
T1 - The Meaning of the Child Interview
T2 - Making Sense of Parent-Child Relationships
AU - Grey, Ben
AU - Dallos, Rudi
AU - Stancer, Rebecca
AU - Barrow, Victoria
AU - Molloy, Noel
AU - West, Chris
AU - Bhreathnach, Eadaoin
AU - Guðmundsdóttir, Ragnheiður Björg
AU - Keogh, Tara
A2 - Grey, Ben
N1 - Dr Ben Grey is a social worker, psychologist, and Principal Lecturer (for Research) on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, University of Hertfordshire. He has conducted training, worked in and published widely on attachment, parenting assessment, family court, and child-welfare practice, developing the Meaning of the Child Interview within this practice context.
PY - 2025/2/28
Y1 - 2025/2/28
N2 - This handbook provides an accessible and thought-provoking guide to the Meaning of the Child interview (MotC), a tool for understanding family relationships. It is edited and written by the MotC’s developer, with contributions from leading researchers and practitioners using the MotC in innovative contexts to support families. The MotC uses a semi-structured interview in which parents talk about their child, their relationship with their child, and their parenting. A process of analysis is outlined, including using the method to plan intervention, guide practice, and conduct research. This book offers a practical guide to applying attachment and caregiving research for child welfare and mental health professionals. Prior knowledge is not assumed, and many examples and summaries are used to assist the reader. By focussing upon how parents story their experience, and their child’s, in the context of ongoing challenges, this book facilitates practice based on understanding struggling parenting as a relationship situated in adversity, rather than an individual failing, worthy of blame.
AB - This handbook provides an accessible and thought-provoking guide to the Meaning of the Child interview (MotC), a tool for understanding family relationships. It is edited and written by the MotC’s developer, with contributions from leading researchers and practitioners using the MotC in innovative contexts to support families. The MotC uses a semi-structured interview in which parents talk about their child, their relationship with their child, and their parenting. A process of analysis is outlined, including using the method to plan intervention, guide practice, and conduct research. This book offers a practical guide to applying attachment and caregiving research for child welfare and mental health professionals. Prior knowledge is not assumed, and many examples and summaries are used to assist the reader. By focussing upon how parents story their experience, and their child’s, in the context of ongoing challenges, this book facilitates practice based on understanding struggling parenting as a relationship situated in adversity, rather than an individual failing, worthy of blame.
KW - Meaning of the Child Interview
KW - attachment
KW - parent development interview
KW - parenting
KW - child protection
KW - family courts
KW - child welfare
M3 - Book
T3 - Palgrave Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy
BT - The Meaning of the Child Interview
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -