Coming HAANZ Inc Events
Video-feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline (VIPP-SD)– why and how: a webinar
A free webinar for HAANZ Inc. members
Time: 3.30- 5PM (CBR, SYD, MEL) AEST
Date: Friday 27th June, 2025
Overview of webinar
All parents want the best for their child. But parents can be hampered in their intentions to be a good and sensitive caregiver by internal or external factors, by their ideas or personality, by the context or by child characteristics. In my presentation, I will discuss the Video-feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline (VIPP-SD), that we began to develop about thirty years ago based on meta-analytic insights concerning duration, focus, and methods of attachment-based interventions. Soon after, we paired attachment theory with social learning theory in the intervention program to support not only parental responsiveness, but also sensitive limit setting. The resulting intervention is home-based (currently tested in an online version), relatively brief (6 sessions), and both standardized and individualized. Each session has its own themes, that are discussed with the parent based on prepared feedback to the recorded parent-child interaction. VIPP-SD effects have been tested in more than 25 RCTs. I will discuss the central principles of the intervention, and point to ingredients that may explain its effectiveness.
About Prof Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg
Prof Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg is a full professor at ISPA Lisbon and at San Sebastián University, Valdivia, Chile. She is also a visiting scholar and research associate at the Center for Attachment Research, The New School for Social Research, New York, and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Stockholm University, Sweden. In the past 30 years Professor Bakermans-Kranenburg has been affiliated with the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Section Clinical Child and Family Studies, and with Leiden University. Her research activities include, e.g., the ERC-funded Father Trials research program, the L-CID gravity program, the 3 Generations study of the Family Lab, and the Collaboration on Attachment Transmission Synthesis (CATS).
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- How to choose a suitable intervention.
- Which populations it works for.
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