2-Brain Regulation to Achieve Improved Neuroprotection During Early Development

The TVFI 6 weekly sessions are organized in two subsequent phases: 4 sharing the focus sessions and 2 integration sessions. Sharing the focus sessions are dedicated to the discussion between the psychologist and the mother of specific themes related to parenting and parent-infant interaction: physical stimulation, responsiveness, teaching, and parenting experience. The goal of the sharing the focus sessions is to develop insights about the infants' behavioral signals, the best ways to provide stimulations and get in touch, strategies to promote emotion regulation, and to sustain cognitive and behavioral achievements. In the subsequent two integration sessions, the mother plays with the infant while the psychologist provides guidance based on topics previously discussed during the first four sessions. The goal is to promote a pragmatical translation of the insights developed during the sharing the focus sessions into the interactive exchanges between the mother and the infant.