[6] Colwyn Trevarthen, a Professor at Edinburgh University, studied successful interactions between infants and their primary care givers, and found that the mother's responsiveness to her baby's initiatives supported and developed intersubjectivity (shared understanding), which he regarded as the basis of all effective communication, interaction and learning.
[9][10] In 2008, the current version of the Video-feedback Intervention to Promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline (VIPP-SD) was finalized by Femmie Juffer, Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, and Marinus van IJzendoorn of the Centre for Child and Family Studies at Leiden University.
This allows clients to improve their relationship attunement skills, by developing their ability to mentalise about their own and their infants mental states, and by encouraging mind-minded interactions.
Video feedback interventions, particularly VIPP-SD, have been created based on the attachment theory, developed by John Bowlby (1969) and Mary Ainsworth (1974).
[21] Some parents started to do activities with their children, which involved a small element of risk, after having agreed to do them for the first time as part of Video Interaction Guidance.
[22] A principal factor which influences parents' engagement and perception is the quality of the relationship that they are able to build up with the practitioner delivering the programme.