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Video interactive guidance (VIG)

VIG highlights and builds on attuned moments in interaction.

Clients are supported by a VIG practitioner to view and reflect together on strengths-based micro-moments of video.

Clients are asked: ‘What is it that you are doing that is making a difference?’ Through this process of active engagement and reflection, clients become aware of, and build on, their skills in attunement.

VIG is powerful and emotionally moving: client’s voice their surprise and pleasure in what they see.

Parent consultation

Individualised Therapeutic Parenting

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Therapeutic parenting can help families who are struggling with children who show emotional distress, challenging behaviour and insecurity.

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The fact that this approach focuses on parents doesn’t mean the problems are the parents’ fault. It’s just that some children need very particular parenting approaches that are hard to stumble across by accident. Parent work is an incredibly important part of our work for many different reasons. It allows time and space for a good relationship to develop between you and your therapist and time for us all to get to grips with your child’s unique needs. In our therapeutic parenting sessions, we will think carefully about your family’s journey so far and how you manage the challenges you are facing (and may well have been facing for a long time!).

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Some of the questions we might be thinking about together are:

  • What is driving your child’s more challenging behaviours?

  • What are they experiencing emotionally?

  • How does this impact on the relationship between you?

What is VIG?

Video Interaction GuidanceTM (VIG) is a strengths-based, brief intervention that promotes attunement, sensitivity, and mentalization in relationships. The principles and practice can be used to work within any relationship.

VIG is effective with parents and carers of children across all ages (including babies and unborn babies).

VIG is used in a variety of contexts, including health, schools and social care. VIG is used with both clients and professional

About VIG training

AVIGuk has an established UK training and accreditation programme which includes on-going video-reflective supervision, and rigorous accreditation criteria.

Video Interaction Guidance requires skill and sensitivity, to facilitate the client in thinking about both strengths andchallenges.

An essential part of the professional training for VIG is videoing yourself and the client in discussion of the parent-child video clips (a ‘shared review’).

The core 'Principles of Attunement' are used by the VIG Practitioner and supervisor to analyse and reflect on this shared review and the Practitioner’s attunement to the client – a truly reflexive process.

The VIG Process

  1. The VIG practitioner begins by helping the family or professional to negotiate a 'helping question' linked to their goal; for example: What am I doing to build a closer relationship with my child?'

  2. The VIG practitioner takes a video of a few minutes of interaction

  3. The VIG practitioner microanalyses the video: editing it to create 'clips' of attuned moments

  4. The VIG practitioner and the client view, and explore, the clips together in the ‘shared review’

  5. The VIG practitioner receives the client’s ideas (initiatives)

  6. Together they notice and build on the client’s strengths and co-create new ideas

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