Hunter, Cath (2024) How do parents experience “Watch Me Play!” alongside the multi-disciplinary assessment of their under-five year old’s social communication difficulties? An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust/University of Essex. Full text available

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Abstract

The project aimed to explore parents’ experiences of Watch Me Play! alongside the assessment of their under-five year old for social communication disorders, including possible autism. WMP sessions were scheduled fortnightly in parallel with routine meetings comprising the assessment process within the multi-disciplinary assessment team. WMP clinicians, all child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapists, conducted the WMP sessions. Semi-structured interviews were designed to take place pre-and post-intervention during which parents were asked to talk about their experiences. Clinicians were not interviewed and the WMP intervention had no bearing on the outcome of the assessment. Parents of children at the top of the existing waiting list were invited to take part: four took part in pre-WMP interviews. Two subsequently withdrew leaving two who completed the full study. Data from interviews (four pre-WMP, two post-WMP) was analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. The study was very small and so findings cannot be generalised but analysis of the data indicated that for some, WMP enabled greater attunement between parent and child and could contribute to greater confidence in parents’ experience of relationships with clinicians and in the assessment process.

Item Type:	Thesis (Professional Doctorate)
Additional Information:	Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Essex for the degree of Professional Doctorate in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Professional Doctorate in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, University of Essex
Subjects:	Children, Young People and Developmental Pyschology > Child Psychotherapy Communication (incl. disorders of) > Communication Families > Parent Child Relations/Parenthood Research, Tests, Assessments > Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Department/People:	Children, Young Adult and Family Services Research
URI:	https://repository.tavistockandportman.ac.uk/id/eprint/2898

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