Family-Centered Care in Childhood Disability

Dr. Livio Provenzi is a psychologist, psychotherapist, and researcher in the field of infant research and developmental psychobiology. As a clinician, he works with families of children with disability, integrating principles of infant research, collaborative consultation, and therapeutic assessment in family-centered parenting interventions. He has published more than 60 papers in the last five years, and his main research topics include preterm birth, child disability, neuroendocrine and epigenetic biomarker of stress, parenting interventions, and parent-infant interaction.Dr. Serena Grumi is a psychologist, researcher, and adjunct professor in the field of developmental psychology with a particular interest in family relationship and parenting in contexts of risk for child development. As a psychologist, she worked in the field of child protection and domestic violence. As a researcher, she is working on family-centered interventions delivered through telemedicine approaches for children with neurodevelopmental disabilities. Her main research topics include parenting interventions, child disability, risk and protective factors for parenting and child adjustment, and parent-infant interaction.Prof. Renato Borgatti is a full Professor of Child Neuropsychiatry at the Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia, Italy. He is the director of the Child Neuropsychiatry Unit at IRCCS Mondino Foundation, and the director of a day care center for learning disabilities and adolescent psychiatric rehabilitation at the same institute. For over thirty years, he worked first as a doctor and then as the director of the E. Medea Neurorehabilitation Scientific Institute. In recent years, he has conducted many studies in the field of telemedicine, especially about cognitive and behavioural disorders. He has authored more than 200 papers in international scientific journals and 12 international book chapters.

• Prologue: Parenting as primary prevention.- Theory: Beyond infant research: The dyadic dance and child disability. Calming cycle theory and child disability. What does it mean “family-centered” in childhood disability? Ethics of parenting interventions in child disability: The weak bonding.- Research: The inner world of parents of children with disability: Emotions and Representations. Fathers engagement in child disability. A neuroscientific perspective on parenting in the context of disability. Technological support interventions for parents.- Practice: Assessing parent-child interactions in the context of developmental disability. Supporting psychomotor development through parenting interventions: From education to video-feedback. The collaborative consultation model. The use of the Still-Face as an assessment tool for parent-child interaction.- Epilogue: Educating the next generation of healthcare specialists in child disability.