The intervention in neglect problems: clinical reference

Resumen

This text has as its main objectif to present, in a summarized way, some clinical references able to guide the intervention in neglect problems, intervention that exiges multiple knowledges about infant's social and affective development, as about parenting determinants. It is necessary to emphasize the main elements of parent-child attachment that are present in neglect problems so it could be possible to give some informatins about important aspects of help. Three dimensions are examined in parent-child attachment with the focus on neglect behaviour of the parents and what is experienced by the child in this situation: behavioural, psychological and environmental. These dimensions are interelated and organized in a hierarchical way.