II. Management of Excessive-Persistent Crying
“Floor Time”
Increase positive
pleasurable
interactions
Parent infant
psychotherapy
- Alleviate stress if possible, increase support to parents
- Concrete advice and help to manage crying
- Model empathic responses and sensitivity vis a vis infant
- Interactive guidance
- Explore fantasmatic interactions
- Explore parents’ working model of child, and of relationships in general
- Become acquainted with infant’s sensitivities and aversion to stimuli, changes, etc.
- Taylor stimuli to child according to these
- Sensory integration techniques
- Empathic responsiveness given uniqueness
- Reduce overstimulation