The Influence of Mother-Child Interaction on a Child with Health Limitations

摘要

This article explores the role of child-parent relationship in children’s development in general, and the developmentof children with health limitations, in particular. The article describes the concept of “parent relationship” and studiesabout child-parent relationship and its characteristic influence on a child’s development. It also analyzes how birthcircumstances and the upbringing of a child with health limitations affects the development of child-parent interaction.We explore the factors which complicate this interaction. We refer to the points of view of the representatives of psychoanalysis,theory of object representations, transactional psychology, epigenetic paradigm and ethologic approach; wealso analyze the opinions of representatives of L.S. Vygotskiy’s cultural and historical theory of psychological development,A.N. Leontyev’s activity theory and M.I. Lisina’s communication genesis framework. The study procedure and themethods used are Parental Attitude Research Instrument (PARI) questionnaire; a method of assessing neurological andpsychological development of children of younger age (G.V. Pantyukhina & K.L. Pechora); content analysis of videosof interactions between mother and child; interview of the mothers and specialists who work with the “mother-child withhealth limitations” pairs. We discuss the obtained results of the study, which describe the role of child-parent relationshipin the development of children with health limitations.