[Parent counseling between crisis intervention and preventive intervention]

The presence of impairments in their newborn child entails parental mourning and coping processes, which are either accelerated, prolonged, or repressed by the professional help provided, depending on the nature and quality of such intervention. Based on Schuchardt's model of coping with crisis (1980), the interactional difficulties between professional helpers/parents and child in the various phases are set out, inferring potential modifications in this interaction, but also changes in training and research contents.