Abstract

SEI, Maíra Bonafé; SOUZA, Carolina Grespan Pereira  and  ARRUDA, Sérgio Luiz Saboya. The child’s symptom and family dynamics: parent’s orientation in child psychotherapy. Vínculo [online]. 2008, vol.5, n.2, pp.194-207. ISSN 1806-2490.

Human development involves a path of dependence on the environment and family toward greater independence and thus emotional issues presented by children may have close relationship with the family dynamics. The purpose of this article is then to broaden the understanding about the child symptoms, to reflect about the relations among the children’s symptoms, family dynamics and the limits and scopes of parent’s orientation in psychodynamic child psychotherapy, through a theoretical and clinical study. It was chosen to present a case of daughter and mother attended, respectively, in child psychotherapy and parents guidance at the clinic for children psychotherapy of a university hospital. The attendance showed a clear link between the daughter´s symptoms and family dynamics, with the routing of the mother to the parent’s orientation. The content provided by the mother referred to issues proper to individual psychotherapy, however, it is understood that the acceptance of them was relevant to promote the emotional development of both mother and daughter. Finally, it is thought that a look at the family dynamics can be helpful to understand children psychodynamics and to reach better results in the psychotherapeutic process.

Keywords : Child psychotherapy; Family; Orientation; Parents.

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