... Mentalization Parenting stress Reflective functioning Foster children There are currently over 55,000 children in care in England (Department for Education, 2018). Many children coming into care have experienced abuse or neglect in their family of origin with others exposed to family dysfunction...

... Interview Parent-child relationships Reflective functioning Reder and Duncan’s studies in the 1990s of fatal child abuse highlighted the importance of looking at the ways in which parents construct a psychological model of their child and how this affects the parent-child relationship (Reder...