Abstract

CARVACHO, Claudia  and  CHAMARRITA FARKAS, María Pía Santelices. Mind Mindedness or the ability of adults to treat the child as minded individual: New perspectives for the study of the interaction between a preschool child and their attachment figures. Summa psicol. UST (En línea) [online]. 2012, vol.9, n.2, pp. 69-78. ISSN 0718-0446.

Upon three years old, the pre-school child develops the avility of thinking on his/her own emotions, feelings and yearnings. In addition to a sensitive respond from their caregivers, the child needs a mentalizing answer from the adults which helps him/her to take conscious of his/her mind, and thus helping the child to comprehend his/her inner world by means of language. Within this context, the concept of Mind Mindedness allows to conceptualize this competence of the significant adult, in order to comprehend the implication of the theory of the mind and the attachment bond in the pre-school child. This article show a review of the theoretic and empiric development, which is at the basis of Mind Mindedness, and discusses its main contributions to the study, comprehension and intervention between the preschool child and his/hers attachment figure.

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