PO11 - S.O.S. infant's crying! An educational path in a paedatric counselling context.

UNLABELLED Theme: Parenting/parenthood. INTRODUCTION In Western societies, an infant's crying often causes anxiety in parents. Educational and empowerment paths of parenthood could be useful to overcome these difficulties (Hiscock 2004). AIMS Design and implement a pilot test of an educational path with a group of infants' (0-3 months) parents to support them in the acceptance of their children's crying and develop coping strategies. METHODS The pilot test is composed by two meeting with 8 parents in a paediatric counselling situation. It's based on an empowerment's model of parenthood. The tools are brainstorming and narrations; they are used to analyze intervention's needs and to accompany parents in accepting children's crying. RESULTS The first narrations underline parents' need to take on the topic and to be valued in their parental role; from the second ones it comes out that the parents appreciate the project. CONCLUSIONS The pilot test was completed and appreciated by the parents.