Prevención de la carencia afectiva crónica: nuevos paradigmas en el modelo de familia de acogida temporal

摘要

In Chile, most of infants whose biological family is not able to offer them a proper care are referred to a national child protection system and are early institutionalized. During their stayin the hospital and into childcare institution these infants lack of an exclusive and stable affectfigure. This situation jeopardizes the child proper neurologic, affective and social development,commonly resulting in Chronic Emotional Deprivation. In this article the authors show a concisereview of this concept and propose a novel foster family program, in an attempt to prevent andmitigate the occurrence of this disorder. The proposed program offers psychotherapeutic supportand is based on the existence of a foster family having a one-time-only experience with exclusivededication to just one child. This temporary family does not receive economic retribution and hasthe possibility to maintain contact with the child after his incorporation to a definitive family.The theoretical differences of the proposed program with the currently ongoing programs areexplored and a clinical vignette is shown.